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PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
CELESTE PILEGARD, PHD (she/her | PILL-UH-GARD)
CELESTE PILEGARD, PHD (she/her | PILL-UH-GARD)
I am an Associate Teaching Professor in the Psychology Department at UCSD. I am interested in facilitating meaningful learning: learning that is flexible and long-lasting. I investigate how various instructional approaches—from learning strategies to principles of multimedia learning and instructional scaffolding—influence learning processes and comprehension, with particular focus on how students understand science content and processes. [ CV | GOOGLE SCHOLAR ]
GRADUATE STUDENTS
GRADUATE STUDENTS
RIAN DREXLER
RIAN DREXLER
I am a fourth year PhD student in the Psychology Department at UCSD. I am interested in how people's understanding of the nature of science (e.g., science as tentative, science as a debate) impacts learning science in the classroom and evaluating scientific information in everyday life. Most of my free time is spent rock climbing, but I also enjoy hiking, surfing, and techno.
Christine Lee
Christine Lee
UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS
UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS
IGNACIO ESPINOZA
IGNACIO ESPINOZA
Research Assistant (2023–)
URC 2025
PSLIME 2025
BTR Team 2022
URC 2023
PSLIME 2023
SRC 2023
PSLIME 2022
LAB ALUMNI
LAB ALUMNI
Graduate Students
Graduate Students
Hannah Lloyd, M.A. in Experimental Psychology (PSI Lab 2022–2024)
Yerkezhan Tokbergen, M.A. in Educational Psychology, (UCR 2018–2020)
Undergraduate Thesis Students
Undergraduate Thesis Students
Jaylen Allison (McNair; 2023–2024)
Abby DeSpain (PSYC Honors; 2023–2025)
Siyuan Liu (PSYC Honors; 2021–2022)
Alan Lopez (PSYC Honors; 2022–2024)
Yang Lu (PSYC Honors; 2019–2020)
Amy Park (PSYC Honors; 2024–2025)
Zhihui Sheng (PSYC Honors; 2023–2024)
Giulia Silver (PSYC Honors; 2021–2022)
Annie Tang (FMP; 2022–2024)
Yuhan Tao (FMP; 2022–2023)
Megan Tavares (PSYC Honors; 2022–2023)
Research Assistants
Research Assistants
Bobbette Alexander (2022)
Olivia Deniz Cetin (2022–2023)
Sophia Daluraya (2024–2025)
Aamyah Davis (2022–2023)
Jessica Denny (2021)
Cecilia Fridge (2022)
Kyle Fune (2020)
Abigail Goldschmidt (2020–2021)
Krishna Gomatam (2020–2021)
Grace Hong (2020)
Keeshia Kamura (ERC Honors; 2019–2022)
Ki-Yeon Kim (2020)
Shanthi Kuppa (ERC Honors; 2022–2025)
Emily Liu (2020)
Yuxin Liu (2020–2021)
Justin Moran (2024)
Titus Ng (2023–2024)
Nathan Nguyen (2021–2022)
Rob Ethan Santiago (ERC Honors; 2021–2024)
Lynette Sauceda (2024)
Evan Schwager (2021)
Yakuan Wang (2023–2025)
Sydney Washington (STARS; CSU Fullerton; 2021)
Derek Ye (2022–2023)
Dongbowei (Iris) Zhang (2021–2022)
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