Emily Finn, Mark Thornton, and Matthijs van der Meer Honored with Prestigious Scientific Awards

Three Psychological and Brain Sciences faculty, Emily Finn, Mark Thornton, and Matt van der Meer, were all recently named for prestigious scientific awards.

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Assistant Professor Emily Finn was awarded the 2025 Cognitive Neuroscience Society Young Investigator Award, which recognizes outstanding contributions by scientists early in their career. Dr. Finn will be honored at the CNS Annual meeting in Boston, where she will present her award lecture "One stimulus, many interpretations: The neuroscience of subjective experience" on Monday, March 31, 2025.

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Assistant Professor Mark Thornton won the Social and Affective Neuroscience Society (SANS) Early Career Award and the Association for Psychological Science (APS) Janet Taylor Spence Award for Transformative Early Career Contributions.

The SANS Early Career Award recognizes Dr. Thornton for his significant contributions to Social and Affective Neuroscience and outstanding scholarship and service to the field. He will receive this award and deliver a presentation of his work at the SANS Annual Meeting in Chicago April 23-26, 2025.

The APS Janet Taylor Spence Award for Transformative Early Career Contributions honors creative and promising APS members who embody the future of the field. The Spence Award will be presented to Dr. Thornton in May at the 2025 APS Annual Convention in Washington, D.C.

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Associate Professor Matthijs van der Meer received the prestigious Mid-Career Advancement Award from the National Science Foundation. This three-year award provides protected time and resources to substantively enhance and advance Dr. van der Meer's research program and career trajectory. His winning project, "Cognitive Processes in the Rodent Hippocampus," was selected for it's potential to advance knowledge and to benefit society.