Julian was with the EMP Lab from 2014 until 2021, when he defended his Ph.D. He is interested in the psychological rewards and costs of empathy, and he is currently exploring how the brain contributes to regulating empathic responding using functional neuroimaging and lesion methods. He is also interested in how people regulate moral behavior and moral judgment, focusing on propensities for prosocial versus antisocial behavior, as well as the policing of moral violations within and between social groups. Julian obtained his B.Sc. in Neuroscience and Psychology at the University of Toronto, where he managed Michael Inzlicht’s Toronto Lab for Social Neuroscience and Elizabeth Page-Gould’s Embodied Social Cognition Lab (now known as SPRQL). Julian also obtained his M.A. in Psychology at the University of Iowa, where he participated in the NIH-funded T32 training program and worked with Dr. Daniel Tranel and Dr. Jan Wessel. Julian earned his Ph.D. in summer 2021, and took a post-doctoral fellowship with Robert Levenson at UC Berkeley.