Alumni

Publications

While at Georgetown, our graduates have published in a wide range of scholarly journals that include the following:

• Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
• Nature Human Behaviour
• Nature Communications
• Science Advances
• Psychological Science
• Trends in Cognitive Sciences
• JAMA Psychiatry
• Pediatrics
• Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences
• Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
• Journal of Experimental Psychology: General 
• Developmental Science
• Developmental Psychology
• Child Development
• Emotion
• Cerebral Cortex
• Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
• Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience
• Human Brain Mapping
• Infancy
• Journal of Experimental Child Psychology

Employment

Our Ph.D. graduates consistently obtain faculty and post-doctoral research positions in top-ranked universities, as well as research institutions, non-profit institutions, and industry.

Faculty Positions:

• Weill Cornell Medicine
• University of California Los Angeles
• University of California Riverside
• New York University
• Pennsylvania State University
• Randolph-Macon College
• Washington and Jefferson College
• Catholic University of America
• University of Maryland
• University of Pittsburgh
• Korea University
• Saint Olaf College
• Louisiana State University
• Florida International University
• Virginia Commonwealth University
• San Jacinto College
• Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Louisiana State University

Post-doctoral Research Positions:

• Pennsylvania State University
• Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
• University of Pennsylvania
• University of Wisconsin Madison
• University of Washington
• Georgetown University
• National Cancer Institute
• National Institute of Health
• Army Research Lab
• National Institute of Mental Health
• Yale University School of Medicine

Industry and Non-Profit Organizations:

• Discover Financial Services
• Google
• The LEGO Foundation
• Conference Board of Canada
• Mathematica Policy Research
• Fluent Research
• MEF Associates
• Child Trends in DC
• The Asia Foundation
• SRI International
• Meloy Child and Family Policy Solutions, LLC
• Harlem Children’s Zone
• The Urban Institute
• First Focus
• Westat
• Institute for Learning and Brain Sciences
• MIND Education

Government Positions:

• Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention
• Virginia Department of Criminal Justice Services
• Pew Charitable Trusts
• National Institute on Drug Abuse
• National Institute on Mental Health
• National Institutes of Health
• National Cancer Institute