- Department of Psychology; Clinical Psychology
- Email: liam-rozum@uri.edu
Major Professor: Hector Lopez-Vergara, PhD
Lab: iMap Lab
Biography
Liam is a first-year student in the Clinical Psychology Ph.D. program, and recipient of the First-Year Doctoral Fellowship. He graduated from Utah State University in 2018 with a bachelor’s in Psychology and a minor in Political Science. As an undergraduate, he actively participated in the Alzheimer’s Disease and Cognitive Disorders Lab, which provided valuable research experienced. He then obtained a master’s from Westminster College (Salt Lake City, UT) in Mental Health Counseling in 2021. He practiced as a clinician before joining the program to advance his research and clinical interests. During his free time, he enjoys drinking iced coffee while hanging out with his husband and dogs.
Research
His research interests are three-fold:
- Examine “unconscious”/automatic cognitive process that influence substance use and other psychopathologies,
- Critiquing the psychometric properties of performance-based cognitive measures which attempt to measure these constructs, and
- Applying these constructs and psychometric critiques to sexual and gender minorized populations.