Emma Moscardini
Dr. Moscardini graduated from LSU with her PhD in psychology in 2023. She currently is a post-doctoral fellow at McLean Hospital, Harvard Medical School where she attended internship. She grew up in Safety Harbor, Florida and graduated with her B.S in Psychology from the University of Florida (UF). As an undergraduate, she volunteered at a suicide hotline doing emergency mobile outreach in Alachua County. She also was a lab manager in UF’s psychology department and worked at an in-patient addiction treatment center.
Emma continues to pursue research regarding mechanisms of change in suicide-specific interventions such as the Collaborative Assessment and Management of Suicidality. She is also interested in leveraging ecological momentary assessment to study suicide risk management.
In her free time, Emma enjoys running, rock climbing, and traveling.
Jessica (Jess) Gerner
Jess received her masters degree in psychology at LSU in 2023. She currently is a doctoral candidate at Catholic Universities of America under the mentorship of David Jobes. She grew up in Kentucky and graduated from the University of Cincinnati in 2018 with a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology and a minor in Deaf Studies. She spent two years completing a Post-baccalaureate fellowship at the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), where she worked on “The Neurobiology of Suicide” study, prior to attending LSU.
Jess’ primary interests are in identifying risk and protective factors for suicide and improving suicide risk assessment methods. She is interested in proximal risk factors for suicide behavior, as well as exploring the efficacy of behavioral task performance as a means for predicting suicide risk.
