
Interdisciplinary Neuroscience: Faculty
The interdisciplinary neuroscience program has over 70 faculty spread across three colleges and 12 departments who participate in the ING program. ING faculty and staff are listed below.


Executive Committee
Name | Department | Contact |
Dr. John Jeka, Program Director | Kinesiology & Applied Physiology | jjeka@udel.edu |
Dr. Mark Stanton, Graduate Director | Psychological & Brain Sciences | stanton@udel.edu |
Chow, Ho Ming | Communication Sciences & Disorders | hmc@udel.edu |
Hestvik, Arild | Linguistics & Cognitive Science | hestvik@udel.edu |
Johnson, Curtis | Biomedical Engineering | clj@udel.edu |
Kim, Hyosub | Physical Therapy | hyosub@udel.edu |
Klintsova, Anna | Psychological & Brain Sciences | klintsov@udel.edu |
Knight, Christopher | Kinesiology & Applied Physiology | caknight@udel.edu |
Schneider, Keith | Psychological & Brain Sciences | keithas@udel.edu |
Shao, Lisha | Biological Sciences | shaol@udle.edu |
Name/Profile | Research Focus | |
Deni Galileo | dgalileo@udel.edu | |
Lisha Shao | shaol@udel.edu | |
Jia Song | jsong@udel.edu | |
Jessica Tanis | jtanis@udel.edu |
Name/Profile | Research Focus | |
Joshua Cashaback | joshcash@udel.edu | |
Curtis Johnson | clj@udel.edu | |
Fabrizio Sergi | fabs@udel.edu |
Name/Profile | Research Focus | |
Kelvin Lee | khl@udel.edu | Biomolecular, biomedical and metabolic engineering; proteomics and systems biology; biological mass spectrometry; protein secretion and synthesis; diagnosis and treatment of neurodegenerative diseases. |
Name/Profile | Research Focus | |
Chandra Kambhamettu | chandra@cis.udel.edu | |
Christopher Rasmussen | cer@cis.udel.edu |
Name/Profile | Research Focus | |
Stephanie Del Tufo | sdeltufo@udel.edu | |
Roberta Golinkoff | roberta@udel.edu |
Name/Profile | Research Focus | |
Austin Brockmeier | ajbrock@udel.edu | |
Abhyudai Singh | absingh@udel.edu |
Name/Profile | Research Focus | |
Arild Hestvik | hestvik@udel.edu |
Name/Profile | Research Focus | |
Tobin Driscoll | driscoll@udel.edu | |
Chad Giusti | cgiusti@udel.edu |
Name/Profile | Research Focus | |
Thomas Buchanan | buchanan@udel.edu | |
Jill Higginson | higginso@udel.edu | |
Guoquan Huang | ghuang@udel.edu |
Name/Profile | Research Focus | |
Jennifer Kubota | jtkubota@udel.edu |
Name/Profile | Research Focus | |
Mark Stanton | stanton@udel.edu | |
Jasmin Cloutier | jclout@udel.edu | |
Mary Dozier | mdozier@udel.edu | |
Amy Griffin | amygriff@udel.edu | |
Amanda Hernan | ahernan@udel.edu | neural dynamics underpinning behavioral impairment in pediatric epilepsy |
James Hoffman | hoffman@udel.edu | |
Anna Klintsova | klintsov@udel.edu | |
Dayan Knox | dayank@udel.edu | stress and central arousal systems |
Jared Medina | jmedina@udel.edu | impairments after brain damage and what they tell us about the mind. |
Peter Mende-Siedlecki | pmende@udel.edu | the social cognitive and neural mechanisms that underlie how we dynamically perceive and learn about other people |
Joshua Neunuebel | jneun@udel.edu | neural coding of social information |
Jeffrey Rosen (Retired) | jrosen@udel.edu | neurobiology of emotion, focusing on conditioned and unconditioned fear, and how research in animals can be translated to fear and anxiety disorder in humans |
Eric Roth | eroth@udel.edu | integrating neuroscience and ecological techniques to address questions related to many aspects of animal behavior and cognition with an emphasis on spatial ecology |
Tania Roth | troth@udel.edu | identifying epigenetic changes associated with early life caregiving experiences, particularly maltreatment |
Naomi Samimi-Sadeh | nsadeh@udel.edu | understanding why people engage in risky, impulsive and self-destructive behavior, with a special emphasis on elucidating how sensitivity and resiliency to life stress contributes to these harmful behaviors |
Keith Schneider | keithas@udel.edu | relationship between the architecture of the human visual system and the functions of attention, perception and awareness |
Jaclyn Schwarz | jschwarz@udel.edu | immune and endocrine systems influence on the brain and behavior |
Rod C. Scott MD, Ph.D. | Rodney.Scott@nemours.org | cognition in brain disease |
Robert Simons (Retired) | rsimons@udel.edu | human emotion and cognition |
Timothy Vickery | tvickery@udel.edu | visual perception, attention, reward, decision-making |
Jeffrey Spielberg | jmsp@udel.edu | pathological anxiety (e.g., PTSD, worry) and mood (e.g., depression, bipolar) |
Name/Profile | Department/External Organization | |
Hakeem Lawal | hlawal@desu.edu | Cellular & Molecular Neuroscience/Delaware State University |
Harbinder Dhillon | hsdhillon@desu.edu | Molecular Biology/Delaware State University |
Michael Gitcho | mgitcho@desu.edu | Delaware Center for Neuroscience Research/Delaware State University |
Melissa Harrington | mharrington@desu.edu | Delaware Center for Neuroscience Research/Delaware State University |
Murali Temburni | mtemburni@desu.edu | Biological Sciences/Delaware State University |
Thierry Morlet | thierry.morlet@nemours.org | Neuroscience/Nemours |
Hwan Kim | yhkim@desu.edu | Biological Sciences/Delaware State University |
Robert Akins | Robert.Akins@nemours.org | Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine Laboratory (TERM)/Nemours |
Kyoko Nagao | kyoko.nagao@nemours.org | Neuroscience/Nemours, Communication Sciences & Disorders/UD |
Elizabeth Wright-Jin | Elizabeth.Wright-Jin@nemours.org | Pediatric Neurology & General Child Neurology/Nemours |
Name/Profile | Research Focus | |
Kathleen Brewer-Smyth, PhD, RN, CRRN, FAAN | kbsmyth@udel.edu |