Bio

Dima Amso is a professor in the Department of Psychology at Columbia University. She has a BS in psychology from Tufts University, was trained at Cornell University and received a PhD in psychology from New York University in 2005. She served on the faculty at the Weil Medical College of Cornell University before joining Brown University. Her research examines the development of attention, executive functions, and memory, with an emphasis on how environmental variables shape these trajectories.  She has authored over 80 papers on the topic. Dr. Amso’s research has been funded by National Institute of Mental Health, the National Science Foundation, the National Institute of General Medical Sciences, National Institute for Child Health and Human Development, the Simons Foundation, Norman Prince Neuroscience Institute, and the Hassenfeld Child Health Institute. She is a recipient of the James S. McDonnell Scholar Award and is an elected Fellow of the American Psychological Society.