The 2025 ISDP Senior Investigator Award – Nathan A. Fox, PhD

Nathan A. Fox, PhD
Distinguished University Professor
University of Maryland
Lab Director, Department of Human Development and Quantitative Methodology
College Park, USA

• Human Development and Quantitative Methodology (HDQM)
• www.cdl.umd.edu
• http://www.bucharestearlyinterventionproject.org/
• http://www.mirroringdevelopment.com/
• https://www.babysfirstyears.com/

Nathan A. Fox is Distinguished University Professor at the University of Maryland in the Department of Human Development and Quantitative Methodology and the Program in Neuroscience and Cognitive Science.  He has completed research on the biological bases of social and emotional behavior and infant temperament developing methods for assessing brain activity in infants and young children during tasks designed to elicit a range of emotions and executive control. His work on the temperamental antecedents of anxiety is funded by the National Institutes of Health where he was awarded a MERIT award for excellence of this research program. He is an elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Association for Psychological Science and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and received the Distinguished Scientific Contributions Award from the Society for Research in Child Development and the Distinguished Mentor Award and G. Stanley Hall Award for Lifelong Achievement in Developmental Science from Division 7 of the American Psychological Association. He is also the recipient in 2017 of the Ruane Award for Outstanding Research in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. He is a founding member of the National Scientific Council for the Developing Child and is co-Scientific Director of this group. He is an Associate Director of the Data Core of the Healthy Brain and Child Development study with oversight over EEG for the national consortium.