Peilian CHI, Ph.D. 池培蓮
Principal Investigator
Dr. Chi is a faculty member at Department of Psychology, University of Macau. The central focus of her research is to understand individual and relational resilience from a biopsychosocial and family systems perspective. Her research has two main areas: resilience of youths in adversities and relational resilience processes. I uses a variety of behavioral and neuroscience methods, and biomarkers to study dyads and individuals.
KaLai LAM, Ph.D. 林嘉麗
Research Assistant Professor
Dr. LAM is interested in conducting meta-analytic, qualitative, and quantitative research in the fields of Educational Psychology and Positive Psychology. A major goal of her current research is to investigate the effectiveness of positive psychological interventions.
Qi ZHAO, Ph.D. 趙琪
Postdoctoral Fellow
Dr. Qi ZHAO, a postdoctoral fellow, got her doctoral degree from the University of Macau in 2023. Her current research interests lie at the intersection of social neuroscience and cognitive neuroscience, especially focusing on interpersonal neural synchronization during social interactions of close relationships.
Liuyue HUANG, M.A. 黃柳玥
Postgraduate Researcher
Liuyue is a PhD student who is interested in understanding the underlying mechanisms of the biopsychosocial responses among people with trauma experiences and how to improve their resiliency through a multisystem perspective. In addition, she is committed to discovering more effective and accessible interventions in order to improve the well-being of people with trauma experiences.
Chunhui YANG 楊淳惠
Postgraduate Researcher
Chunhui is a PhD student whose research interests are centered around gender inequality. Specifically, she dedicated to exploring ambivalent sexism in private and public spheres using empirical evidence. Besides, her passion lies in the antecedents of mental disorders.
Kaixin LIANG M.A. 梁凱欣
Postgraduate Researcher
Kaixin is a psychology PhD student who holds a Master’s degree in Applied Psychology from Shenzhen University. Her research focuses on promoting mental health through lifestyle behaviors like physical activity, sleep, and diet. Her goal is to provide simple and effective solutions for health promotion.
Yilin HU 胡亦琳
Postgraduate Researcher
Yilin is a Master student in Cognitive Neuroscience of Institution of Collaborative Innovation at University of Macau. She is interested in the underlying cognitive mechanism of social interactions between couples. She received her bachelor degree in applied psychology from Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine in 2020.
Lab Alumni
Lihua CHEN, Ph.D. 陳麗華
Dr. Chen was a former post-doctoral fellow at Department of Psychology, University of Macau. She earned her Ph.D. and Master’s Degree in Developmental and Educational Psychology at the Beijing Normal University. Her primary research interest lies in: (1) stress and health: the psychological and physiological mechanisms of the associations between early adversities (poverty, discrimination, and physical maltreatment) and children’s health; (2) resilience and positive development: how resilience buffering the detrimental effects of stress, and promoting positive development.
Shan ZHAO, Ph.D. 趙珊
Shan graduated in 2021 and obtained her PhD. Her research area is in Interventions in health psychology, including mindset intervention towards people in low socioeconomic status. She received the master degree in health psychology from University of Leeds in 2015.
Qianfeng Li, Ph.D.李乾峰
Qianfeng graduated in 2020 and obtained his PhD. He is working at Beijing Normal University at Zhuhai as a Postdoctoral Fellow.
Qinglu WU, Ph.D. 吳清祿
Qinglu was a former post-doctoral researcher in the lab and is working at Beijing Normal University at Zhuhai as an Associate Professor.
List of Former Trainees
2024 Graduates: Shibo ZHOU 周世博; Liutong OU 歐柳彤
2024 Undergraduates: Ivy, Xinran NIU 牛欣然; Margie, Xiaomeng WANG 王曉萌; Hang, Wei Hang ZHANG, 張葦杭
2023 Undergraduates: Karena, Peixin OU 歐沛欣; Thomas, Hangshek Lau 劉恒碩
2022 Undergraduates: Sylvia, Guyu Sun 孫顧宇; Shirley, Xue Peng 彭雪; Schuyler, Yanwen Hou; Silence, Yixiao Shi 史一瀟; Hester, Yihan Zhang 張一涵
2021 Undergraduates: Ken, Chin Pok Sit 薛展博; Rex, Cheok Him Lao 劉卓謙; Ella, Kehui Wu 吳柯慧; Alisa, Yingjia Wan 萬穎佳
2020 Undergraduates: Ashley, Hioieng Wong 黃曉瑩; Sherrill, Tongxiaoyu Li 李仝笑雨; Sue, Yuan Ji 紀元
2019 Undergraduates: Wing Yingshi Chen, Winnie Wei Zhang, Ning Fang, Xin Yi Chen
2018 Undergraduates: Jinhang Lin, Margaret Ka Wan Ao
2017 Undergraduates: Haoting Chen, Nicole Leong, Yuting Ma, Ge Wu
2016 Undergraduates: Yuecong Fu
Other Trainees: Fangyuan Yao, Fei Gu, Xin Zhang, Zhuoshi Zhang, Huanling Yuan