New York University Assistant Professor David Amodio (PhD.'03, Psychology) has received a significant early career award from the U.S. Government.
Amodio is the winner of the 2009 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) and will be recognized in a ceremony held at the White House in the near future.
The PECASE program, which was established in 1996, identifies and honors outstanding young researchers and is the highest honor that a beginning scientist or engineer can receive from the U.S. Government.
Selection is based on innovative research and community service as demonstrated through scientific leadership, education or outreach. Nine government agencies, including the U.S. Department of Education and the National Science Foundation, nominate candidates for the PECASE program.
Amodio completed his PhD under the mentorship of Professors Patricia Devine and Eddie Harmon-Jones. He was also recently honored with early career awards from the International Society of Social Cognition and the Association for Psychological Science (Janet T. Spence Award).
Amodio has become a prolific, highly visible researcher whose scholarly work is path breaking and agenda setting in the field of intergroup relations and social neuroscience.
He is one of a very small set of scholars who is able to link micro-level processes, using a range of neuroscience tools, to macro-level issues.