Meet the Lab Members

Professor Eric J. Vanman

Eric is a Professor in the School of Psychology at the University of Queensland Australia. After receiving his Ph.D. in social psychology from the University of Southern California in 1994, he was a post-doctoral fellow in cognitive and behavioral neuroscience at USC and then spent a year as a research scientist at Texas A&M University. He was then a lecturer at Emory University until his appointment as an Assistant Professor at Georgia State University in 2000. He left Georgia State in 2007 to come to UQ. His research interests include the social neuroscience of emotion and intergroup prejudice, and his studies have incorporated several kinds of psychophysiological and neuroimaging methods.  

For his full CV, click here.

Email: e.vanman@psy.uq.edu.au

Current Students (to be updated soon!)

Honours Students

Eric will be supervising individual honours projects in 2026.

Lab Alumni

Dr. Faye Nitschke

Dr. Roger Gamble

Dr. Lewis Nitschinsk

Dr. James Casey

Dr. Katie McKay

Dr. Ellie Moses

Dr. Ruri Katsunuma

Dr. Carly McComb

Dr. Joel Larwood

Dr. Leah Sharman

Dr. Billy Sung

Dr. Nerisa Dozo

Dr. David Cowan

Dr. Belinda Craig

Dr. Michael Philipp

Dr. Sashenka Milston

Dr. Beth O'Brien-McInally

Dr. Jenni Wallis

Mari Horiguchi

Alexandra Hall

Sarah Rowley

Rosemary Baker

Tash Bobir

Kyah Johnstone

Jenna Scambler

Sara Berndt

Martin Henrion

Hayley Colman

Julia Riches

May Chantra

Shelby Ceh

Kaela Savage

Tobren Watson

Sebastian Rahe

Madeline Fitzgerald

Zhuman (Mandy) Li

Jake Morrison

Pei Wen Tan

Samantha Lo Monaco

Lewis Nitschinsk

Lucinda Hinckfuss

Vanessa Standring