Ilana J. Bennett
Associate Professor of Psychology
co-Director, UCR Aging Initiative

ilana.bennett@ucr.edu
UCR faculty webpage
Google Scholar profile
ResearchGate profile
ORCID profile

Danielle Sanchez
Psychology Graduate Student

danielle.sanchez002@email.ucr.edu
Google Scholar profile
Summer 2021 – present

Mohammad Dastgheib
Psychology Graduate Student

mohammad.dastgheib@email.ucr.edu
Personal webpage
Summer 2021 – present

Gohar Zavradyan
Neuroscience Graduate Student

gohar.zavradyan@email.ucr.edu
Google Scholar profile
Spring 2022 – present

Danielle Greenman
Psychology Graduate Student

danielle.greenman@email.ucr.edu
Google Scholar profile
Fall 2022 – present

Abbey Page
Psychology Graduate Student

abbey.page@email.ucr.edu
Fall 2022 – present

Ryan Bruellman
Genetics, Genomics, & Bioinformatics Graduate Student

ryan.bruellman@email.ucr.edu
Google Scholar profile
Summer 2023 – present

Bethany Tavenner
Psychology Graduate Student

bethany.tavenner@email.ucr.edu
Google Scholar profile
Fall 2023 – present

Emerald Wang
Psychology Graduate Student

emerald.wang@email.ucr.edu
CV
Fall 2025 – present

Kai Ng
Laboratory Assistant

kai.ng@email.ucr.edu
LinkedIn
Spring 2024 – present

Mackenzie Maxwell
Laboratory Assistant

mackenzie.maxwell@ucr.edu
CV
Summer 2025 – present

Lab Alumni

Postdoctoral Researcher

  • Chang-Mao Chao (2023-2024) Assistant Professor, National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan
  • Michael Rupp (2017-2019) Human Factors Researcher, Hewlett Packard

Graduate Students

  • Jenna Merenstein (2017-2022) Assistant Professor, University of Utah
  • Anu Venkatesh (2017-2021) Researcher at Department of Defense, Naval Information Warfare Center Pacific

Lab Assistants (select)

  • Kitzia Solis (2023-2025) PhD candidate at Stony Brook University
  • Andrew Sun (2021-2023) PhD candidate at Northeastern University
  • Justino Flores (2018-2021) PhD candidate at George Washington University

Undergraduate Students (select; *honors)

  • Diana Aramyan (2023-2024) PsyD candidate at California Lutheran University
  • Alex Alcaraz-Torres (2018-2023) County of Riverside
  • Kirolos Ibrahim (2018-2021) MD candidate at Georgetown University
  • Bryan Madero (2018-2020) PhD candidate at the University of Iowa (PI: Michelle Voss)
  • *Corinna Franco (2017-2020) PhD candidate at the University of California, Los Angeles (PI: Barbara Knowlton)
  • Madeline Mendoza (2017-2019) PhD candidate at Loma Linda University

Lab Pictures