People
Who is in the lab?
Researchers studying memory persistence and mental health at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School.
Principal Investigator
Salman E. Qasim, Ph.D.
PI
Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and Core Faculty at the Rutgers Brain Health Institute. PhD in Biomedical Engineering from Columbia University; postdoctoral training in Computational Psychiatry at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mt. Sinai. His research unearths the unique features of human neural computations that enable high-level cognitive functions.
salman.qasim@rutgers.eduPostdoctoral Fellows
Marco Chia-Ho Lai, Ph.D.
Postdoc
Postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Neurosurgery at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. PhD in Psychology from New York University. His research centers on speech processing and semantic memory across the human lifespan, investigating how speech information is represented in the human brain using a multimodal neuroimaging approach.
Carlo Cerquetella, Ph.D.
Postdoc
Postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Neurosurgery at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. PhD in Neuroscience from the Institut für Physiologie, Universität Bern. He investigates how the limbic system regulates emotional states during stressful experiences, with a focus on anxiety and depression across rodents and humans using behavioral paradigms, optogenetics, electrophysiology, and computational modeling.
Staff
Aminah Twyman, B.A.
Staff
Clinical Research Coordinator in the Department of Neurosurgery at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. With degrees in Psychology, English Literature, and Biology, she supports the lab's intracranial research studies and ensures that medical research is as compassionate as it is innovative.