Research Team

Lab Directors

  • Dr Elise Kalokerinos
    A/Professor Elise Kalokerinos

    Co-director of Lab

    She/her

    Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences

    elise.kalokerinos@unimelb.edu.au

    Elise Kalokerinos is a Senior Lecturer in the Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences. She completed her PhD in social psychology at the University of Queensland, and a Marie Curie postdoctoral fellowship at KU Leuven in Belgium. Her research centres on emotion, motivation, and self-regulation.

  • A/Prof Katie Greenaway
    Professor Katie Greenaway

    Co-director of Lab

    She/her

    Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences

    katharine.greenaway@unimelb.edu.au

    Katie's research focuses on social functioning in three main domains: identity processes, emotion regulation, and human agency. At its heart, Katie's research aims to understand the formation and consequences of social connections between people.

  • A/Prof Peter Koval
    Professor Peter Koval

    Co-director of Lab

    He/him

    Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences

    p.koval@unimelb.edu.au

    Dr Pete Koval is an Associate Professor in Psychology. His research interests lie at the intersection of social, personality, and clinical psychology with a focus on the dynamics of emotional processes in daily life, including how people experience and regulate their emotions in response to everyday events, and how these processes relate to well-being and psychological functioning.

Postdoctoral Research Fellows

  • Dr Anh Tran
    Dr Anh Tran

    Postdoctoral Research Fellow

    She/her

    Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences

    anh.tran@unimelb.edu.au

    Anh’s research focuses on the role of contextual factors in everyday emotion regulation, with a special interest in interpersonal processes. Anh completed her PhD in the FEEL Lab on interpersonal emotion regulation—how and why people socially regulate their own and others’ emotions in daily life.

  • Dr Valentina Bianchi
    Dr Valentina Bianchi

    Postdoctoral Research Fellow

    She/her

    Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences

    val.bianchi@unimelb.edu.au

    Valentina is a Senior Clinical Psychologist and a Research Fellow, recipient of a National Intelligence Postdoctoral Grant (NIPG). Her research focuses on secrecy processes, emotion regulation and affective dynamics in everyday life. She holds academic interests across clinical and social psychology,as well as in meta-science.

Lab Research Support

Postgraduate Students

  • Aya Uchida

    PhD Student

    She/her

    Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences 

    aya.uchida@student.unimelb.edu.au

    Aya's research is interested in how and why individuals and cultures differ in emotion regulation and the role of motivation in emotion regulation.

  • Georgia Tsindos

    Masters/PhD Student

    She/her

    Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences 

    gtsindos@student.unimelb.edu.au

    Georgia’s research focuses on the cognitive, affective, and behavioural mechanisms underlying eating disorders, with a particular focus on binge eating behaviour.

  • Jasmin Bruna Stariolo

    PhD Student

    She/her

    Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences

    jstariolo@student.unimelb.edu.au

    Jasmin's research focuses on neurocognitive science and psychology, particularly in attention and perception processing, as well as affective science. Jasmin  holds a degree in Biological Science and a master’s in Neurophysiological Behavior from the Federal University of Fluminense.

  • Jessica Polhill

    Masters Student

    She/her

    Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences 

    jpolhill@student.unimelb.edu.au

    Jess’ research focuses on the factors influencing the effectiveness of various emotion regulation strategies, with a current focus on how emotion regulation is impacted by psychopathology symptoms.

  • Rachel Freeman Robinson
    Rachel Freeman-Robinson

    PhD Student

    She/her

    Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences

    freemanr1@student.unimelb.edu.au

    Rachel is interested in how attention, acceptance, and effort influence emotion regulation. She is also a tutor in research methods and social psychology at the University of Melbourne.

  • Noy Zeira

    PhD Student

    She/her

    Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences 

    nzeira@student.unimelb.edu.au

    Noy's research focuses on how emotion regulation and its effectiveness change as a function of different contexts in daily life, among both depressed and non-depressed individuals. Noy also holds a master's degree in clinical psychology.

  • Runqiu Fei

    PhD Student

    He/him

    Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences 

    runqiu.fei@student.unimelb.edu.au

    Runqiu’s research focuses on the quantitative modelling of daily emotion, exploring how emotional experiences evolve over time and vary across individuals.

  • Sarah O'Brien

    PhD Student

    She/her

    Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences

    soobr@student.unimelb.edu.au

    Sarah's research is interested in interpersonal emotion regulation, particularly when and why social sharing is beneficial or detrimental to one's well-being.

  • Sooyeon Kim

    PhD Student

    She/her

    Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences

    sooyeon.kim@student.unimelb.edu.au

    Sooyeon’s research examines why and how people from various cultures regulate their emotions differently, focusing on response modulation. She also holds a master’s degree in clinical psychology.

2025 Honours Students

  • Harry Rule (He/Him)
  • Mia  Zelesco (She/Her)
  • Chloe Smart (She/Her)
  • Emily Reed (She/Her)
  • Nissi Cai (She/Her)
  • Claire Makepeace (She/Her)

Honours

Past Members

    • Dante Martino (Lab manager)
    • Arjun Pathy (Honours student)
    • Felicia Semple (Honours student)
    • Jun (Julian) Hsien Low (Honours student)
    • Ella Moeck (Postdoctoral research fellow)
    • Devika Prakash (Honours student)
    • Cedrick Bergola (Honours student)
    • Emily Chan (Honours student)
    • Sarah Pearse (Honours student)
    • Yuet Sum (Jocelyn) Wong (Honours student)
    • Jessica Polhill (Honours student)
    • Janice Priskila Hermawan (Honours student)
    • Tam Simpkin (Student intern)
    • Ellie Taylor (Student intern)
    • Akshay Chandran (Honours student)
    • James Teague (Honours student)
    • Janine Griffiths (Honours student)
    • Patrick Davies (Honours student)
    • Namwon (Kate) Kim (Honours student)
    • Ankita Sen (Honours student)
    • Julian Weiner-Angelopulo (Honours student)
    • Jessica Lee (Honours student)
    • Belinda Dalton (Honours student)
    • Beth Clarke (Student intern)
    • Skye Burnley (Student intern)
    • Isobel Moore (Student intern)
    • Hayley Medland (PhD and Clinical Masters student)
    • Yixia Zheng (PhD student)
    • Paul Garrett
    • Jack Woods (Honours student)
    • Kristina Mei (Honours student)
    • Joanne (Jo) Kostopoulos (Honours student)
    • Yehudi (Hudi) Saling (Honours student)
    • Lachlan Raymond Bagnara (Honours student)
    • Komal Grewal (Honours student)
    • Dr Bill Bingley (Research assistant)
    • Xin Yi (Sydnei) Yang  (Research Intern)
    • Jasmin Kaur Sareen (Research Intern)
    • Sophie Warner (Research Intern)
    • Amy Bowring (Research Intern)
    • Annabelle Patten (Honours student)
    • Emma McIntosh (Honours student)
    • Lachlan Anthony (Honours student)
    • Melissa Petrolo (Honours student)
    • Rachel Sobel (Honours student)
    • Tammy Lim (Honours student)
    • Christine Beckett (Research intern)
    • Patrick Burnett (Research intern)
    • Nicholas Cheng (Research intern and Honours student)
    • Dominik Kristen-Parsch (Research intern)
    • Harry Speagle (Research intern)
    • Sophie Yeung (Research intern)
    • Amani Nasarudin (Honours student)
    • Jardine Louise Mitchell (Honours student)
    • Jessica Mortlock (Honours student)
    • Sylvia Chu Lin (Honours student)
    • Bruce McIntyre (Research intern)
    • Steven Leu (Research intern)
    • Julia Schreiber (Visiting Master's student)
    • Yaoxi Shi (Visiting Master's student)

Furry Friends of the FEEL Lab

Zhuzhu
Zappo - The Lab, Lab
Mukku
Kkomi
Jack (left) & Shihiro (right)
Gigi
Duna
Otto
Sparrow (left) & Bobby (right)

External Collaborators

  • James Gross
    Professor James Gross

    Stanford University

  • Peter Kuppens
    Professor Peter Kuppens

    KU Leuven

    University of Leuven

  • Tom Hollenstein
    Associate Professor Tom Hollenstein

    Queen's University, Canada

  • Maya Tamir
    Professor Maya Tamir

    Hebrew University of Jerusalem

  • John Gleeson
    Professor John Gleeson

    Australian Catholic University

  • Renee Thompson
    Associate Professor Renee Thompson

    Washington University

  • Michael Slepian
    Associate Professor Michael Slepian

    Columbia Business School

  • Dr Tony Gutentag

    School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University