Early Career Award

The Society for Social Neuroscience has established this award to recognize Early Career Contributions to Social Neuroscience.

Members are asked to nominate a colleague for this distinguished award recognizing the formation of new approaches or paradigms within a field of neuroscience, and or the development or advancement of research that cuts across fields of neuroscience. Two awards will be given, one for human research and one for animal research. We are happy to consider self-nominations.

Eligibility

  • Award winners will be representative of the most creative and promising investigators in the field of social neuroscience and will embody the future of social neuroscience through their cutting-edge ideas and novel research.

  • All individuals who have completed their Ph.D and are up to and including 6 years into their first independent faculty/group leader position, or 10 years after the completion of their Ph.D as of the time are considered. Postdocs are therefore also eligible.

  • Award winners will be announced at this year’s virtual meeting on November 3, 2023, and will be required to give a talk (in person or recorded) at the in-person meeting in Japan in March 2024.

Selection Criteria

  • Is the research characterized by rigorous and innovative scientific methods?

  • Does the research build upon existing social neuroscience in scholarly ways?

  • Is the research having a scientific impact?

  • Is the research novel and creative?

  • Does the research have the potential to transform how we think about social neuroscience?

Nomination Materials

  • A letter of nomination (can be from candidate)

  • Two letters of recommendation

  • The nominee’s current CV, electronic reprints or links to the nominee’s work, indicating the most important contributions to social neuroscience.

To Submit

Nominations should be submitted via email attachment to awards@s4sn.org.

Previous Winners

2022

Monique Smith, UC San Diego, USA
Irene Perini, Linköping University, Sweden

2021

Leah Mayo, Linköping University, Sweden
Michael Yartsev, UC Berkeley, USA

2020

Olga Dal Monte, University of Torino, Italy
Oriel FeldmanHall, Brown University, USA

2019

Patricia Lockwood, University of Oxford, UK
Weizhe Hong, Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles, USA

2018

Eliza Bliss-Moreau, University of California, Davis, USA
Matthew Apps, University of Oxford, UK

2017

Jonathan B. Freeman, Ph.D., New York University, USA
Oren Forkosh, Ph.D., Max Planck Institute, Germany

2016

Jamil Zaki, Ph.D., Stanford University, USA
Steve Chang, Ph.D., Yale University, USA

2015

Molly J Crockett, University of Oxford, UK
Teruhiro Okuyama, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA

2014

Gül Dölen, M.D., Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University, USA
Olga Klimecki, Ph.D., University of Geneva, Switzerland

2012

Jay Van Bavel, Ph.D., New York University, USA
Zoe Donaldson, Ph.D., Columbia University, USA

2011

Lauren O’Connell, Stanford University, USA