Social and Affective Neuroscience Society Mid-Career Award for 2024

Psychological and brain sciences professor Luke Chang received the first-ever Mid-Career Award from the Social and Affective Neuroscience Society . The award recognizes his "significant contributions" to the field and "outstanding scholarship and service."

As a way to better recognize our membership for their work, we have introduced the Mid-Career Award for 2024 . The award recognizes an mid-stage investigator who has made significant contributions to Social and Affective Neuroscience terms of outstanding scholarship and service to the field.  The winner of the award will receive a $500 prize, complimentary registration to the 2024 conference in Toronto, and be invited to give a short talk at the annual meeting.
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Luke Chang, PhD is an Associate Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences at Dartmouth College where he directs the Computational Social Affective Neuroscience Laboratory and co-directs the Consortium for Interacting Minds . He completed a BA in psychology at Reed College, an MA in psychology at the New School for Social Research, and a PhD in clinical psychology and cognitive neuroscience at the University of Arizona. In addition, Luke completed his predoctoral clinical internship training in behavioral medicine at the University of California Los Angeles and a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Colorado Boulder in multivariate neuroimaging techniques. His research is funded by the NSF and NIH and is focused on understanding the neurobiological and computational mechanisms underlying emotions and social interactions. He has been recognized by the Association for Psychological Science with the Janet Taylor Spence Award for Transformative Early Career Contributions and is a strong advocate for improving methods and quantitative training and has developed several opensource software packages , summer training programs , and online books .

The Social & Affective Neuroscience Society (SANS) is committed to research investigating the neural basis of social and affective processes. The Society was founded in 2008 and now comprises over 400 members.