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Tina Malti is the founding director of the Laboratory for Social-Emotional Development and Intervention at the University of Toronto.

 

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Tina Malti, Ph.D., C.Psych.

Tina Malti, Ph.D., C.Psych.

Principal Investigator

Team

Chanel Tsang
Dr. Ruth Speidel

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   Principal Investigator

   Alumni

   Alumni

Dr. Ruth Speidel

Managing Director

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Chanel Tsang

Manager,  Operations and

Community Partnerships

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Sian Day

Community Engagement Coordinator

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Emma Galarneau
Joy Chang

Sunny Huang

Lab Coordinator,

Assistant to the Director

Emma Galarneau

PhD Candidate

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Joy Chang

Project Coordinator

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Gideon Mehna
Megan Mackinnon
Joshua Concon

Gideon Mehna

IT Coordinator

 

Megan Mackinnon

CCDMP Thesis student

 

Joshua Concon

Programmer

 

Isabella Iacoe
José Chacon
Dania Al-Alusi

Isabella Iacoe

Graphic Designer

(Work Study student)

José Chacon

Research Assistant

Dania Al-Alusi

Research Assistant

Hagar Saleh
Dima Tayan
Mikayla Hamilton

Hagar Saleh

Research Assistant

 

Dima Taian

Research Assistant

 

Mikayla Hamilton

Research Assistant

 

Abby Walker Mitchell
Jaspreet Kohli
Michelle Melvin

Maya Awad

Knowledge Translation Assistant, Volunteer

Jaspreet Kohli

Finance Assistant

Michelle Melvin

Volunteer

Social Media Coordinator

Riad El-Karout
Abby Walker Mitchell
Baamie Dorazahi

Riad El-Karout

Volunteer

Social Media Coordinator

Abby Walker Mitchell

Volunteer

Baamie Dorazahi

Volunteer

Sahej Gulati
Vanessa Genise
Isabella Vreux

Sahej Gulati

Volunteer

Vanessa Genise

Volunteer

 

Isabella Vreux

Volunteer

 

Anh Tran
Ruiqiu (Rachel) Shen
Laura Nemi

Anh Tran

Volunteer

Ruiqiu (Rachel) Shen

Volunteer

 

Laura Nemi

Volunteer

CCDMP Thesis Student

Ridah Afshal
Neha Reddy
Isabella D’Ercole

Ridah Afshal

Volunteer

Neha Reddy

Volunteer

Isabella D’Ercole

Volunteer

Youness Robert-Tahiri
Lab Pictures

Youness Robert-Tahiri

Volunteer

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   Team

Alumni

Lab Alumni

 

Post-Doctoral Fellows (Selection)

 

Tyler Colasante (Post-Doctoral Fellow, 2017 - 2020; Managing Director, Research, 2020 - 2023)

Junior Professor and Alexander von Humboldt Research Group Leader, Faculty of  Education, Leipzig University

 

Redab Al-Janaideh (2021-2022)

Project Manager at the Centre for Leadership and Learning, York Region District School Board, Ontario, Canada

Sessional Lecturer at the University of Toronto, Canada

 

Joanne Filippelli (2020–2021)

Policymaker, Ontario Ministry of Children, Community and Social Services, Toronto, Canada

 

Nishat Fatima (2020–2021)

Solution Focused Brief Counsellor, Covenant House Toronto

Clinical Associate, Dr. Caffrey-Craig Clinic, Toronto, Canada

 

Keng-Hie Song (2019-2020)

Assistant Professor, Department of Counseling Psychology, Woosuk University, Jin-cheon, South Korea

 

Marc Jambon (2017-2020)

Assistant Professor of Developmental Psychology, Wilfrid Laurier University

 

Joanna Peplak (2013-2020)

Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at Simon Fraser University, British Columbia, Canada

 

Linlin Zhang (2017-2019)

Assistant Professor, School of Psychology, Capital Normal University, Beijing, China

 

Sebastian Dys (2013–2019)

Post-Doctoral fellow, Simon Fraser University Adolescent Health Lab, Burnaby, Canada

 

Ju-Hyun Song (2016-2018)

Assistant Professor, Department of Child and Family Studies, Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea

 

Antonio Zuffiano (2014-2015)

Professor, Department of Developmental and Social Psychology, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy

 

Stefania Sette (2014-2015)

Assistant Professor, Department of Developmental and Social Psychology, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy

 

Lixian Cui (2013-2015)

Assistant Professor, Institute for Social Development, New York University Shanghai, China

 

Ella Daniel (2012-2013)

Assistant Professor, School of Education, Tel-Aviv University, Israel

 

Margit Averdijk (2011-2014; co-supervisor)

Research Associate,  Jacobs Center for Productive Youth Development,  Zurich, Switzerland

 

 

Ph.D. Advisees (Selection)

 

Sebastian Dys (2013–2019)

Post-Doctoral fellow, Social Development Lab, University of Waterloo

 

Joanna Peplak (2013-2020)

Post-doctoral Fellow, Department of Psychological Science, School of Social Ecology, University of California, Irvine

 

Anouk van Dijk (2015; international visiting graduate student)

Assistant Professor, Department of Developmental Psychopathology, University of Amsterdam, The

Netherlands

 

Jeanine Gruetter (2015; international visiting graduate student)

Professor of Inclusive Education, University of Konstanz, Germany

 

Maria Paula Chaparro (2015; co-supervision)

Clinical Psychologist, Toronto

 

Annekatrin Steinhoff (2014; co-supervision)

Postdoctoral Student, University of Zurich

 

Hyunji Kim (2013; co-supervision)

Postdoctoral Student, York University

 

Christine Nguyen (2013; co-supervision)

Ph.D. Student, University of Toronto

 

 

Master’s Thesis Advisees (Selection)

 

Sebastian Dys (2013)

Ph.D. Student, University of Toronto

 

Sophia Ongley (2012)

Teacher, Vancouver, Canada

 

Sarah Kuenzler (2011)

School Psychologist, Switzerland

 

Corsin Caglia (2011)

Clinical Psychologist, Switzerland

 

Anai Fernandez (2010)

School Psychologist, Switzerland

 

 

Undergraduate Students (Selection; more than 200 students supervised at UofT since 2010)

 

Maarya Abdulkarim (2022)

MPH in Health Promotion, University of Toronto

 

Nirma Jbara (2021)

MSc. in Physiotherapy, University of Toronto

 

Shahd Fulath Khan (2021)

MSc. in Couple and Family Therapy, Guelph University

 

Shahdah Mahhouk (2019)

M.A. in Philosophy, McMaster University

 

Mishika Mehrotra (2018-2019)

Ph.D. Student, University of Cambridge

 

Catherine Tessier (2018)

MSW, University of Michigan

 

Samantha Rundle (2018)

M.A. in Experimental Psychology, University of Toronto

 

Mahrukh Zahid (2018)

MPH in Health Care Management, Yale University

 

Tehreem Mehmood (2018)

MSc. in Couple and Family Therapy, Guelph University

 

Danah Elsayed (2018)

MSc. in Family Relations and Human Development, Guelph University

 

David Boshra (2018)

M.T, University of Toronto (OISE)

 

Ayah Ellithy (2017)

M.A. Student, Counselling Psychology and Psychotherapy, University of Toronto

 

Belinda Tanuwijaya (2017)

M.A. Student, Child Study and Human Development, Tufts University, Boston

 

Iren Karki (2017)

M.A. Student, Counselling Psychology, Adler School of Professional Psychology, Vancouver

 

Anisha Aery (2017)

M.A. Student, Counselling Psychology, Adler School of Professional Psychology, Vancouver

 

Martin Atanasovski (2012)

M.A. Student, Counselling Psychology, Yorkville University, New Brunswick

 

Cristina Martan (2016)

M.Ed. Student, University of Toronto (OISE)

 

Shabana Omar (2015)

M.A. Student, Counselling Psychology, Adler School of Professional Psychology, Vancouver

 

Elizabeth Clancy (2015)

M.A. Student, Psychology & Neurology, Guelph University

 

Jessica Chuang (2015)

M.A. Student, Occupational Therapy, Western University

 

Chrystal Colquhoun (2014)

M.A. Student, Teaching, Learning, and Development, Brock University

 

Alyssa Saiphoo (2014)

M.A. Student, Social Psychology, Ryerson University

 

Michal Bak (2013)

Ph.D. Student, Developmental Psychology, Western University

 

Michelle Rodrigues (2013)

M.A. Student, School and Clinical Child Psychology, University of Toronto (OISE)

 

Matthew Medeiros (2013)

Ph.D. Student, Anthropology, University of Toronto

 

Nisreen Khambati (2013)

M.A. Student, Developmental Psychology and Clinical Practice, Anne Freud Centre, London, UK

 

Isabella Schwyzer (2013)

M.A. Student, University of Zurich

 

Navneet Hundal (2013)

M.A. Student, Education, York University

 

Behzad Eshghi (2013)

Ph.D. Student, Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto

 

Nick Hobson (2012)

Ph.D. Student, University of Toronto, Scarborough

 

Bushra Bayan (2013)

M.A. Student, Occupational Therapy, Queen’s University

 

Amani Saleh (2011)

Ph.D. Student, City University, London

 

Leyla Javam (2011)

Ph.D. Student, University of Toronto (OISE)

 

 

 

Visiting Scholars

 

Professors

 

Mari Hasegawa (2018, 2019)

Yokohama City University, Japan

 

Luciano Gasser (2015)

University of Teacher Education, Lucerne, Switzerland

 

Andreas Beelmann (2014)

Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany

 

Michaela Gummerum (2013)

University of Plymouth, UK

 

Dagmar Strohmeier (2013, 2020)

University of Applied Sciences, Linz, Austria

 

Monika Keller (2011)

Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany

 

 

 

Postdoctoral Researchers

 

Stefania Sette (2015)

University of Rome, Italy

 

Milena Marzano (2012)

University of Bari, Italy

 

 

 

Graduate Students

 

Beatrice Bobba (2019)

University of the Sacred Heart, Milan, Italy

 

Shazza Ali (2018)

University of Kent, UK

 

Anouk van Dijk (2015-2016)

Utrecht University, The Netherlands

 

Jeannine Gruetter (2014-2015)

University of Zurich, Switzerland

 

Marieke de Bruine (2014-2015)

University of Leiden, The Netherlands

 

Marta Nola (2014)

University of Pavia, Italy

 

Dorinde Jansma (2014)

University of Groningen, The Netherlands

 

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