Lab Affiliates

Research Scientists
VICTOR KAUFMAN (he/him) is a former graduate student and current research scientist of the UCLA Marriage and Close Relationships Lab. He received a Master’s Degree in Psychology from Pepperdine in 2015 and a Ph.D. in Social Psychology in 2020.  He primarily studies how close relationships influence well-being. He is also interested in psychometrics and how its application can aide our measurement of various phenomena in close relationships.  
DAVID KENNEDY (he/him) is a research scientist of the UCLA Marriage and Close Relationships Lab and social and behavioral scientist at the RAND Corporation. He is currently developing innovative methods for targeting social network and romantic relationship factors in health intervention. Find out more about David Kennedy at the RAND Corporation website. See his CV here.
Former Graduate Students & Postdoctoral Researchers of Dr. Bradbury:
JULIA HAMMETT is a postdoctoral scholar in the Edson School of Nursing and Health Innovation at Arizona State University and in the Department of Psychology at Georgia State University. See more here.

TERESA NGUYEN is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at Sonoma State University. See more here.

HANNAH WILLIAMSON is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Human Development and Family Sciences at the University of Texas at Austin. See more here.

JUSTIN LAVNER  is and Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Georgia. See more here.

RONALD ROGGE is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Rochester. See more here.

ERIKA LAWRENCE is a Professor and the Director of Translational Science at The Family Institute at Northwestern University. See more here.

LAURI PASCH is a Professor and licensed psychologist at the University of California, San Francisco. See more here.

JOANNE DAVILA is a Professor in the Department of Psychology at Stony Brook University. See more here.

DOMINIK SCHOEBI is a Professor in the Department of Psychology at the Université of Fribourg. See more here.

KIERAN SULLIVAN is a Professor in the Department of Psychology at Santa Clara University. See more here.

REBECCA COBB is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at Simon Fraser University. See more here.

MATTHEW JOHNSON is a Professor in the Department of Psychology at Binghamton University. See more here.

JOSEPH TROMBELLO is a licensed psychologist and Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center. See more here.

Former Graduate Students & Postdoctoral Researchers of Dr. Karney:
LISA WALSH is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. See more here.

BENJAMIN HAGGERTY is a Senior Researcher at 2K.

RAQUAEL JOINER is a Research Analyst in the Office of Women’s Health Staff at County of Los Angeles Public Health. See more here.

LUCY SHEN is a Project Manager & UX Researcher at Rvnway. See more here.

GRACE (JACKSON) ROWE is a Senior User Experience Researcher at Netflix.

JAMES MCNULTY is a Professor in the Department of Psychology at Florida State University. See more here.

LISA NEFF is an Associate Professor in the Department of Human Development and Family Sciences at the University of Texas at Austin. See more here.

NANCY FRYE is a Professor in the Department of Psychology at Long Island University. See more here.

THOMAS TRAIL is a Behavioral Scientist at the RAND Corporation. See more here.

AMY RAUER  is an Associate Professor in the Department of Child and Family Studies at the University of Tennessee Knoxville. See more here.

ELIANNE VAN STEENBERGEN is a Professor in the Department of Psychology at Universiteit Utrecht in the Netherlands. See more here.