Richard Gonzalez
Co-Director
Dr. Richard Gonzalez is the Amos N. Tversky Professor of Psychology and Statistics. He is the Director of the BSMC and the Research Center for Group Dynamics at the Institute for Social Research. He also holds appointments in Bioinformatics, the Center for Human Growth and Development, Ross School of Business/Marketing, the College of Engineering and the Comprehensive Cancer Center. Dr. Gonzalez’ main research areas are methodology and judgement/decision making. You might see him around town on his bike as he enjoys meeting collaborators in their home environments.
Jacqui Smith
Co-Director
Dr. Jacqui Smith, Co-Director of the HomeLab and the BioSocial Methods Collaborative, is a Professor of Psychology at the University of Michigan and a Research Professor at the Institute for Social Research. Dr. Smith is a Co-PI of the Health and Retirement Study, where her research focuses on aging, including the well-being and psychological vitality of older adults.
Jeannette Jackson
Founding Managing Director, Advisor
Jeannette Jackson is the Managing Director of the HomeLab and with Rich Gonzalez, co-founded the BioSocial Methods Collaborative in 2013 to support the innovation of biosocial methods. With an MBA from the U-M Ross School of Business, Jeannette Jackson brings business experience that has addressed organizational change and leadership development for industry, non-profits and higher education.
Alicia Carmichael
Research Process Director
Alicia Carmichel is the Research Process Director at the HomeLab. Since joining the BioSocial Methods Collaborative in 2014, she has overseen the life cycle of research projects from end to end. Her activities span research planning, physiological sensor testing, protocol development, survey design, data management, and student mentorship, with a particular research interest in public engagement with genetic information.
Donna Walter
Operations Manager,
Participant Engagement Specialist
Donna Walter is the Operations Manager at the HomeLab and is the participant engagement specialist for all the lab’s studies. She handles the “housekeeping” operations of the lab, including managing payroll and billing for the BioSocial Methods Collaborative; scheduling; training and mentoring research assistants, and interacting with research participants who are the heart of our research.
Natalie Leonard
Human Environment Research Associate
Natalie Leonard is a Human-Environment Research Specialist with the BioSocial Methods Collaborative team at the HomeLab. With a BS in Psychology (Georgia Institute of Technology, 2018) and an MS in Architecture Research (University of Michigan, 2019), her expertise brings the fields together to help architecture apply evidence-based, human-centered design to improve health care and human subjects research environments.
Brandon Labbree
Research Lab Manager
Brandon Labbree is the Research Lab Manager for the HomeLab and the BioSocial Methods Collaborative at the Institute for Social Research. Brandon manages the technology and the “back of house” aspects of the HomeLab, and brings expertise in coding many of the surveys and reports that are generated in the research process.
Bolu Dogari
Research Associate
Boluwatife Dogari is a research associate at the HomeLab and the BioSocial Methods Collaborative. She is a Junior Professional Researcher at the Institute for Social Research, working on a variety of research projects for the Research Center for Group Dynamics.
Our Alumni
We have had the pleasure of working with a number of wonderful people. The following individuals have been employed at the BioSocial Methods Collaborative.
Post Docs
Shannon T. Mejía
Karen Nielsen
Vineet Raichur
Ph.D. Students
Yuyan Han
Research Assistants
Jeffrey Brooks (UROP)
Natalie Brown
Megan Burns
Joanna Chiang
Jordan Chamberlain
Tim Cho
Amos Cone
Lucas Crumb
Siyao Du
Kinzah Fatima
Hannah French (UROP)
Xiaoya Geng
Pauline Gerd
Charles Guccione (SROP)
Jane Guo
Nandita Gupta
Nicklas Helton
Bailey Hulswit
Pravalika Jarugula
Lisa Jin
Brian Kraus
Erin Lee
Maurgan Lee
Sooin Lee
Andrew Lemmen
Sophia Li
Wenqian (Tina) Li
Xiaoyue (Platina) Liu
April Merriweather (SROP)
Syed MahdiTanbirul Miah
Claire Mills
Kaitlyn Mills
Elizabeth Mohnke (SROP)
Cyrus Najarian
Nomaqhawe Ncube
Akari Oya
Janeann Paratore
Milan Patel
Alex Piszker
Sadia Rahman
Amber Shelley
Manna Shintani
Kaitlin Singer
Lisa Solomon
Shuta Suzuki
Houda Tarraf (SSW)
Charles Toye (SSW)
Samuel Uribe-Botero
Khushi Vakharia (UROP)
Kathryn Ward (SSW)
Elisa Warner
Abigail Williams
Maren Wisniewski
JJ Wright
M. Pearl Xiao
Leigh Yeh
Hani Zainulbhai
David (Shihao) Zhang
Visiting Scholars
Roberto Guedes do Nonohay
Uyanga Turmunkh
Bartek Michalowicz
Research Staff
Lindsey Burnside
Kevin Krieg
Grace Oxford
Medha Raju
Adrienne Royce
Megan Tobin
Marianthe Wank
Jillian Peacock
Collaborators
We are privileged to work with and serve many brilliant collaborators, past and present. A few are listed below.
Cristine Agresta, PT, MPT, PhD
Sardar Ansari, PhD
Kira Birditt, PhD
Nicholas Camp, PhD
Frederick Conrad, PhD
Jess Francis-Levin, PhD
Theodore “Jack” Iwashyna, MD, PhD
Kevin Joiner, PhD, APRN, ANP-BC
David Lipps, PhD
Briana Mezuk, PhD
Hallie C. Prescott, MD, MSC
Sheria G. Robinson-Lane, Ph.D., RN, MHA
Jessica Zendler, PhD