Jan R. Wessel, Ph.D. 
Lab Director 

Jan is an Assistant Professor of Psychological & Brain Sciences and Neurology, and directs the Cognitive Neurology lab. He did his graduate work at the Max Planck Institute for Neurological Research and worked as a postdoc at the University of California, San Diego.

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Qi-Yang Nie, Ph.D. 
Postdoctoral Scholar 

Qi-Yang received his M.S. in Cognitive Neuroscience from the Graduate University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He then performed his doctoral work in the Psychology Department at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich, Germany.

 

Darcy Waller, B.A., B.Sc. 
Graduate Student (Psychological & Brain Sciences)

Darcy is a graduate student in the Psychological and Brain Sciences Department. She received her B.A. and B.Sc. from the University of Tulsa and was a Research Assistant at the Laureate Institute for Brain Research. Darcy is funded through the Behavioral & Biomedical Interface program.

 

Cheol Soh, B.A., M.Eng. 
Graduate Student (Psychological & Brain Sciences)

Cheol is a graduate student in the Psychological and Brain Sciences Department. He received a BA in Psychology and Master's degree in Brain and Cognitive Engineering from Korea University in Seoul.

 

 

Benjamin O. Rangel, B.Sc. 
Graduate Student (Neuroscience)

Ben started as a Neuroscience rotating graduate student in the lab (Spring 2018). He then joined the lab full-time as a graduate student in 2018. He received his B.Sc. in Biology from Southern Oregon University, where has was a McNair Scholar.

 

Nathan R. Chalkley, B.Sc. 
Lab Manager 

Nathan is our lab manager. He graduated with distinction from The University of Iowa with a B.Sc. in Psychology.

 

 

Tobin Dykstra, B.Sc. 
Graduate Student Affiliate (Psychological & Brain Sciences)

Tobin is a graduate student in the Psychological and Brain Sciences Department. His main advisor is Eliot Hazeltine. Tobin received his B.Sc. from Michigan State University.

 

 

Kylie A. Dolan 
Undergraduate Research Assistant 

Kylie majors in Psychology and joined the lab in 2015. Kylie was awarded an ICRU fellowship in the Summer of 2016.

 

 

Isabella Dutra 
Undergraduate Research Assistant 

Isabella majors in Psychology and joined the lab in 2016. She was awarded an ICRU fellowship in the Summer of 2017.

 

 

Brynne Dochterman 
Undergraduate Research Assistant 

Brynne is a Psychology major and joined the lab in 2017.

 

 

 

Alec Maher 
Undergraduate Research Assistant 

Alec is majoring in Psychology and joined the lab in 2017. Alec was awarded an ICRU fellowship in the Summer of 2018.

 

 

Lab Alumni

Julian Andrew Scheffer, B.Sc., Rotating Graduate Student
Julian is now a graduate student at Penn State.

 

Jenna M. Kelly, B.A., Rotating Graduate Student
Jenna is a now graduate student in the Neuroscience Program at Iowa.

 

Cailey Parker, Undergraduate Research Assistant
Cailey is now a nursing student in Tennessee.

 

Hailey Billings, Undergraduate Research Assistant
Hailey is now a graduate student at Adler University.

 

Carly Ryder, Undergraduate Research Assistant
Carly is now graduate student at the University of Northern Iowa.