Dr. Falk is an Associate Professor at the Annenberg School for Communication, and Director of the Communication Neuroscience Lab, at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Falk has extensive expertise in the use of functional neuroimaging to understand social influence and behavior change in the context of substance use such as binge drinking, smoking, and physical activity. She and Dr. Bassett have collaborated extensively, along with colleagues at the Army Research Lab, to explore links between brain networks and social networks, as well as how social network structure influences the spread of behaviors and brain responses that control that spread.

Dr. Bassett is an Associate Professor in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Bassett is an internationally-renowned expert in network science and will lead the application of apply cutting-edge network analysis methods to the multi-modality imaging data acquired, including novel network control analytics. She has collaborated with both PI-Falk and with Co-PI Mucha on extensive development of method and theory relevant to both brain networks and social networks.

Dr. Mucha is a Professor of Mathematics and Applied Physical Sciences at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is an internationally recognized expert in applied mathematical methods for data analysis and network science. Within network science, he is a leader in the study of community detection and multilayer networks, having led the development of the very first principled generalization of community detection to multilayer networks and numerous enhancements since.   His group activities are fundamentally interdisciplinary, with collaborations on varied topics across the mathematical, physical, life, and social sciences.

Dr. Ochsner is a Professor of Psychology at Columbia University. His research interests include the psychological and neural processes involved in emotion and self-control. All of his work employs a social cognitive neuroscience approach that seeks to integrate the theories and methods of social psychology on the one hand, and cognitive neuroscience on the other.

Research Director
Annenberg School for Communication

Post-Doctoral Researcher
Annenberg School for Communication

 

Postdoctoral Researcher
Department of Psychology

Graduate Student
Annenberg School for Communication

Post-Doctoral Researcher
School of Engineering and Applied Sciences

Research Coordinator
Annenberg School for Communication

Post-Doctoral Researcher
Department of Mathematics

 

Graduate Student
Department of Psychology