Meet ICD's 2024 PhD Cohort
Please join us in welcoming ICD’s new class of PhD students. We are thrilled to have these students join us at ICD and are looking forward to working with them across the next several years!
ICD 2024 PhD Cohort
Trinity Barnes
Trinity is a first-year doctoral student in the Developmental Psychopathology and Clinical Science program at the Institute of Child Development. Her research aims to eliminate racial disparities in mental health and minimize adverse outcomes associated with race-related stressors such as discrimination. As an interdisciplinary scholar, Trinity's work investigates these relationships with social psychology, developmental psychology, and media analysis. Specifically, her work examines the influence of racialized stress on emotion regulation processes and mechanisms that buffer negative psychological outcomes.
She received her B.A. in Psychology and Spanish in 2024 from Indiana University Bloomington.
Trinity Barnes
Salma Ibrahim
Salma Ibrahim is a first-year doctoral student in the Developmental Psychopathology and Clinical Science track at the University of Minnesota’s Institute of Child Development. Salma’s research explores the intersection of culture, identity, and acculturation, focusing on Somali American and other immigrant-origin youth in the U.S. She's interested in how acculturation shapes health and overall adjustment during adolescence. Salma is particularly interested in how cultural adaptation can enhance health outcomes for these populations, with a goal of producing research that addresses the specific needs of immigrant communities. Through her work, she aims to bridge cultural understanding and research to promote resilience and well-being among diverse youth populations.
She received her B.S. in Developmental Psychology in 2023 from the University of Minnesota.
Salma Ibrahim
Beatrice (Bea) Ojuri
Beatrice (Bea) Ojuri is a first-year PhD student on the Developmental Psychopathology and Clinical Science track working with Drs. Damien Fair and Jed Elison. She is broadly interested in examining shared and distinct behavioral and neurobiological traits in children with ASD and ADHD as well as early neural predictors within those disorders that contribute to emerging psychopathology. She has worked as a research coordinator and assistant In the Center for Neurodevelopmental and Imaging Research at the Kennedy Krieger Institute, she investigated behavioral, neuropsychological, motor, and neurobiological profiles of children and adolescents with ASD, ADHD, and reading disorders as well. Additionally, she was the lead coordinator for a school-based mindfulness intervention in Baltimore City, examining the effects of the intervention on cognitive, behavioral, motor, and social-emotional functioning.
She received her B.S. in Psychology with a Neuroscience concentration in 2022 from the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
Beatrice (Bea) Ojuri
Victoria Zhu
Vic is a first-year student in the Developmental Psychopathology and Clinical Science track from Auckland, New Zealand. Her research interests lie in the understanding the developmental significance of attachment relationships, its antecedents and sequelae, and the intergenerational transmission of attachment and psychopathology through a behavioural genetic lens. Her primary mentor is Glenn Roisman.
Before ICD, Vic worked as a post-baccalaureate research assistant/lab manager with Dr. Theodore Waters at NYU Abu Dhabi, studying the roles of maternal sensitivity and secure base script knowledge in psychological and emotional adjustment. Vic has conducted culturally-informed clinical/research work in US, UAE, Zambian, and Chinese settings.
She received her B.A. in Psychology with Minors in Social Research & Public Policy, Child & Adolescent Mental Health Studies, and Art History in 2021 from New York University Abu Dhabi.
Victoria Zhu