Layla Shaffer (She/Her)

Student Researcher, Tufts University
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Amanda Andersson

Marketing Assistant , The Laidlaw Foundation

Chelsea Liu

Student, Tufts University

Hanshika Neupane

Student, Tufts University

Lily Coral

Student, Columbia University

Hello! My name is Lily, and I’m pursuing a degree in psychology and music. My research is interdisciplinary in that it includes psychology, cognitive neuroscience, behavioral studies, and music. I’m studying how listening to emotionally-intense music impacts the later ventriloquism effect, which is a measure of multisensory binding between visual and auditory stimuli. Then, I will investigate if this effect changes when the visual stimulus is imagined using visual mental imagery. My work is motivated by my deep interest in the interactions between visual mental imagery and mental health, specifically with flashbacks in post-traumatic stress disorder. In the future, my goal is to get an MA in music therapy to become a neurologic music therapist and a PhD in neuroscience to continue research.
Madeline Beck

Student, Tufts University

International Relations and Art History student at Tufts University, passionate about the intersection of law and art. I would love to connect, please feel free to reach out!
Capone

Administrative Coordinator, Tufts University

Research and Academic Administration
Sandy Nguyen

Laidlaw Scholar, Tufts University

Hi! I'm Sandy, a junior at Tufts University double majoring in Biology and Community Health. My interests lie in nutrition, alleviating food insecurity, and improving maternal and child health. In my free time, I enjoy reading (huge R.F. Kuang fan) and listening to artists like Laufey or Wave to Earth :) If maternal and child health is something you're also interested in, or if you just want to connect, please reach out to me!! I'd love to get to know you too!
Thomas Zaugg

Student studying Life Sciences Engineering, EPFL

I am interested in exploring the human mind and brain from the outside-in and from the inside-out. In my free time, I enjoy playing music (clarinet) and actively participate in youth organizations such as science olympiads and scouts.
Nandini Krishnamoorthy

Rising Junior, Tufts University

Lecia Sun

Student, Tufts University

Eleftheria Pantekidis

Research Student, Tufts University

Jahir Islam

Student, Tufts University

Jahir is a junior majoring in Quantitative Economics with a Graduate Certificate in Business from the Fletcher School at Tufts University. His entrepreneurial interests are edtech, civictech/media, communication intelligence, and consumer AI. Besides entrepreneurship, he is interested in Management Consulting, Business/Investment Research, Private Equity, Venture Capital, and Impact Investing. Jahir co-founded AdjunctX, which received the Brandeis Ain Summer Start-up Award and the Tufts Entrepreneurship & Innovation Fund grant. It's an expert network for consumer lifelong learning and AI-driven networking.
Andrew Singleton (he series)

Administrator, Office of the Provost, Tufts University

Andrew Singleton has recently joined the Tufts-Laidlaw Undergraduate Research and Leadership Programme team as a Programme Administrator and is excited to continue to elevate the Laidlaw Programming for current and future scholars. He joined the programme from Venture Café, which connects and educates the entrepreneurial and innovation community in Boston through programs/spaces/events and many other cities around the world. He has a B.S. from MIT in Biology and a background in social-impact enterprises, wind-power, user-computer-interfaces, as well as computer network design. In his spare time, Andrew enjoys travel, hiking, and wildlife photography.