University of Chicago

Faculty Member, Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience

Irving B. Harris Professor of Psychology and Psychiatry

About

Dr. Jean Decety is Irving B. Harris Professor of Psychology and Psychiatry at the University of Chicago. He previously was a research director at the INSERM (National Medical Research Institute) in Lyon, France, and a professor at the University of Washington, Seattle, and the head of the Social Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory (2001-2004).

Professor Decety received a Ph.D. in Neurobiology from the University Claude Bernard (Lyon, France) in 1989, and then completed a three-year postdoctoral fellowship in Sweden, at Lund University Hospital and at the Karolinska Hospital in Stockholm in the Departments of Clinical Neurophysiology and Neuroradiology.

Jean Decety is an Executive Committee Member of the Center for Cognitive and Social Neuroscience, and a member of the Center for Integrative Neuroscience and Neuroengineering and a member of the Committee on Neurobiology. He is the Editor of the journal Social Neuroscience and serves on the editorial board of Neuropsychologia, Frontiers in Emotion Science, as well as the Scientific World Journal in the domain of higher level brain function.

Dr. Decety is the co-director of the Brain Research Imaging Center (BRIC) at the University of Chicago Medical Center.

Contact Information

Homepage:

http://home.uchicago.edu/~decety/jean_cv.html

 

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