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Our Research Team
Heather N. Richardson
Principal Investigator | hrichardson@cns.umass.edu
Heather is a Professor in the Psychological and Brain Sciences Department, Director of the NSB Graduate Program, and Co-Leader of UMass PREP. She has expertise in developmental neuroendocrinology, sex differences, and preclinical rodent models of alcohol use disorder.
Annabelle Flores-Bonilla
NSB PhD Candidate | afloresbonil@umass.edu
Annabelle is the Neuroscience and Behavior PhD prgram in the Richardson Lab. She first joined in the Summer of 2019 as a PREP student and studies the sex differences in alcohol drinking behavior.
Ashley Han
NSB PhD Student | ashhan@umass.edu
Ashley is pursuing a PhD in Neuroscience and Behavior. She is interested in the role of parvalbumin interneurons in the development of alcohol use disorder.
Guan-En Graham
Postdoctoral Scholar | guanengraham@umass.edu
Guan-En is a Neuroscience Postdoctoral Scholar. She joined the lab in Summer 2025.
Margot Schmit
NSB PhD Candidate | margotschmit@umass.edu
Margot is in the Neuroscience and Behavior PhD program. She is an aspiring neuroscientist with a former career in clinical social work interested in addiction and severe and persistent mental illness research. Margot first joined our lab as an undergraduate student in May 2023.
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