| Elliot Tucker-Drob | |
| Birth Name: | Elliot Max Tucker-Drob |
| Nationality: | American |
| Fields: | Developmental psychology Cognitive aging Behavioral genetics Statistical genetics Psychiatric genetics |
| Workplaces: | University of Texas at Austin |
| Education: | Cornell University University of Virginia |
| Thesis Title: | Global and Domain-Specific Longitudinal Cognitive Changes Throughout Adulthood |
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| Thesis Year: | 2009 |
| Doctoral Advisor: | Timothy Salthouse |
| Awards: | Max Planck-Humboldt Medal (2019) Jacobs Foundation Research Fellowship (2018–2020) Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science (2017) Janet Taylor Spence Award (2017) Fuller and Scott Award (2015) |
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Elliot Max Tucker-Drob is Professor of Psychology at the University of Texas at Austin, where he is also a Professor of Psychiatry, a faculty research associate at the Population Research Center, a faculty research associate at the Center for Aging and Population Studies, and director of the Lifespan Development Lab. He is the co-founder and co-director of the Texas Twin Project. He is known for his research in the fields of developmental psychology, cognitive aging, behavioral genetics, and statistical genetics.[4] [5] This has included research on the effects of education and socioeconomic status on children's cognitive development and academic achievement; cognitive aging and dementia; the genetic architecture of psychiatric disorders; and the development of Genomic Structural Equation Modelling, a statistical framework for the multivariate analysis of genome-wide association study data.[6] [7] [8]