Faculty Member, Psychiatry
Professor
About
Dr. Jean Decety is a professor at the University of Chicago and the College, since 2006, with a primary appointment in the Department of Psychology and a secondary appointment in the Department of Psychiatry. 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. He is the Editor of the new journal Social Neuroscience and serves on the editorial board of Neuropsychologia 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
http://home.uchicago.edu/~decety/jean_cv.html
