STEPHANIE CACIOPPO, PhD, is an assistant professor of psychiatry and behavioural neuroscience at the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine and the director of the school's Brain Dynamics Laboratory. She is the first female president of the Society for Social Neuroscience, an international field dedicated to understanding how biological systems implement social behaviours in modern society. She is a fellow of the Association for Psychological Science and the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, as well as a member of the Board of Directors of the Society for Social Neuroscience. Named a "Rising Star" by the Association for Psychological Science for her "outstanding contributions to the science of psychology in the areas of research, teaching, and/or application," Cacioppo has won several other prizes and awards for her teaching and research on the neuroimaging of love and clinical case reports.
