Marissa Greif-Hackett Email & Phone Number

Lauderhill, Florida, United States

Boca Raton, FL

• Principal Investigator, Children’s Learning Lab: Investigating creative problem solving and tool use in children and adults.
• Workflow management: Project development including idea production, timeline and resource planning, stimuli design and construction, community liaisons, participant recruitment and management, human subjects.
• Mentored masters and doctoral students through project development and execution, data analysis, and thesis/dissertation writing and defense.
• Managed undergraduate laboratory staff (4-8 students per semester); defined roles and responsibilities for staff members and monitored performance commitment and quality.
• Assessed research quality through peer review for top-level academic journals and government agencies
• Wrote research funding grants directed at government agencies

Conducted research on infant object use and problem solving. Designed study methodology. Analyzed data. Presented research at conferences and submitted reports to peer-reviewed journals. Wrote federal grant proposals. Taught upper level undergraduate seminars on tool use and research methods.

Taught developmental psychology to undergraduates in Yale's summer instructional program.

Ph.D., Mphil, M.S., Psychology

Activities and Societies: Graduate Student Association (GSA)

Bachelor'S Degree, Psychology, With Highest Honors (Summa Cum Laude)

Activities and Societies: Hart House Orchestra, Hart House Music Committee