Awards
Huttenlocher Award
The Flux community honors Dr. Peter Huttenlocher’s distinguished and pioneering contributions to the field of Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience by establishing the Huttenlocher Lecture, which is awarded to an outstanding researcher in the field each year. Dr. Huttenlocher was a pediatric neurologist and neuroscientist who is considered one of the fathers of Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience.
His prolific body of work using histological approaches began in the 1970’s culminating with groundbreaking publications in the 90’s describing the protracted and hierarchical nature of synaptic pruning in the human brain occurring earliest in the occipital lobe and latest in the frontal lobe. These findings, suggesting a mechanism for ongoing neural plasticity through adolescence into young adulthood, has had great impact not only in developmental science and clinical medicine, but also in the realms of education and law.
In addition to his extraordinary impact on the world of developmental cognitive neuroscience, Dr. Huttenlocher made remarkable contributions to his clinical discipline – pediatric neurology – as a physician, teacher, scientist, and mentor.
Huttenlocher Lecturer – 2018 Congress
Uta Frith
Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience at University College London
Uta Frith was born and educated in Germany. Autism and dyslexia have been her main research interests over the last 50 years. She has tried to identify and explain the core features of these conditions and link them to cognitive mechanisms. She us currently writing about cognitive mechanisms that underlie our social interactions, but spends most of her time on science communication and on the promotion of women in science. She is a fellow of the Royal Society, the British Academy, a Member of the German National Academy Leopoldina and a Foreign Associate of the US National Academy of Sciences. In 2012 she received an Honorary DBE.
Past Huttenlocher Lecturers
2017 Congress: Linda Spear Ph.D. University of Florida
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2016 Congress: Michael Posner Professor Emeritus of Psychology, University of Oregon, USA Adjunct Professor at Weill Medical College
2015 Congress: Mark H Johnson
Director of the Centre for Brain and Cognitive Development School of Psychology, Birkbeck College, UK
2014 Congress: Terry L. Jernigan
Professor of Cognitive Science, Psychiatry, and Radiology
Director, University of California, San Diego Center for Human Development, USA
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2013 Congress: David A. Lewis
Chairman, Department of Psychiatry
UPMC Endowed Professor in Translational Neuroscience
Medical Director and Director of Research
Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic
Director Translational Neuroscience Program
Director NIMH Conte Center for the Neuroscience of Mental Disorders
University of Pittsburgh, USA
Young Investigator Awards
The Young Investigator Award in Cognitive Neuroscience recognizes outstanding contributions by scientists early in their careers. Award recipients have been working in the area of cognitive neuroscience for no more than 10 years involved in active independent research.
The FLUX Society is pleased to announce the call for nominations for the Young Investigator Award in Cognitive Neuroscience for the 2018 year.
Eligibility
For the 2018 awards, the nominee MUST be:
- Working in any area of cognitive neuroscience
- No more than 10 years involved in active independent research as of April 1, 2018
- Residency, clinical internship and interruption for childbearing will not be counted against the 10-year limit
- Nominated by a Flux member (no self-nominations will be accepted)
- In attendance at the 2018 meeting to accept the award in person and agree to give a special plenary lecture
Submitting a Nomination
Before submitting a nomination, collect the required materials:
- Contact information for the nominee
- A PDF or Word Document of the nominee’s CV
- A short (max 600) word statement of the nominee’s research program
- A PDF or Word Document of a nomination statement from the primary referee
- Contact information for a second referee
When submitting your nomination, please send all documentation in a PDF or Word document and NOT in the body of the email. For questions please contact us.
Click here to email us your nomination with supporting documentation.
Submission Deadline: May 15, 2018, 23:59 Central Time
Flux 2018 Young Investigator Award Winner
Leah Somerville
Center for Brain Science, Harvard University
Leah Somerville is an Associate Professor of Psychology and faculty member of the Center for Brain Science at Harvard University. Since joining the faculty at Harvard in 2012, she has been the director of the Affective Neuroscience and Development Laboratory. The lab’s research integrates psychological and neuroscientific approaches to inform how the way in which the brain develops through adolescence shapes psychological changes in cognitive, motivational, social, and emotional behavior. Leah’s lab has become engaged in conducting the Human Connectome Project in Development, which is a large, NIH-funded study on multimodal brain connectivity across development from middle childhood to early adulthood. More broadly, this work is aimed at revealing the mechanisms underlying unique features of adolescent emotions, decision-making, and risk for mental illness.
Leah completed her bachelors degree at the University of Wisconsin, her PhD at Dartmouth College, and postdoctoral training at Weill Cornell Medical College. Her work is funded by the National Science Foundation, Brain and Behavior Research Foundation, American Psychological Association, and National Institutes of Health.
Leah will be presenting her Young Investigator Award talk at the Flux Congress on Friday, August 31.
Past Young Investigator Winners
2017 Winner: Dr. Damien Fair, Oregon Health & Science University
Student Travel Awards
During the abstract submission process, we invite post-doc and graduate students to apply for Flux Travel Awards. These awards will be reviewed by the Scientific Program Committee and will be allocated based on scientific merit and an evaluation of a written application.
Winners of the 2018 Flux Travel Awards
ELOISE CAMERON MURDOCH, Childrens Research Institute/University of Melbourne
LIA FERSCHMANN, University of Oslo
DELIA FUHRMANN, University of Cambridge
JOAO GUASSI MOREIRA, University of California, Los Angeles
TERESA IUCULANO, Universite’ Paris Descartes – Sorbonne Paris
EDUARD KLAPWIJK, Leiden University
KATHERINE LOPEZ, Washington University in St Louis
SCOTT MAREK, Washington University in St. Louis
ROSEMARIE PERRY, New York University
CHRISTINA ROGERS, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
NOELIA SÁNCHEZ PÉREZ, University of Murcia
MARION VAN DEN HEUVEL, Tilburg University
QIJING YU, Wayne State University
Winners of the 2017 Flux Travel Awards
LM WIERENGA, Leiden University
JONATHAN HOLM-SKJOLD, University of Copenhagen
KATE NUSSENBAUM, University of Oxford
AMALIE EKSTRAND, Danish Research Centre for Magnetic Resonance
ANITA MONTAGNA, King’s College London
BARBARA BRAAMS, Harvard University
SCOTT MAREK, University of Pittsburgh
SYLVIA RUSNAK, Georgetown University
JULIET DAVIDOW, Harvard University
CHARLOTTE HELENIAK, University of Washington
KRISTEN TUMMELTSHAMMER, Brown University
DAVID PIEKARSKI, University of California Berkeley
WAN CHEN LIN, University of California Berkeley
SUNG JUN JOO, University of Washington
CHELSEA HARMON, Columbia University
Winners of the 2016 Flux Travel Awards
MICHELLE ACHTERBERG Leiden University
LAUREN DEMERS University of Minnesota
SILA GENC Murdoch Children’s Research Institute
MARIA JALBRZIKOWSKI University of California, Los Angeles
BART LARSEN University of Pittsburgh
CORINNA LAUBE Max Planck Institute for Human Development
LUCIA MAGIS-WEINBERG University College London
CHARLES MALPAS Murdoch Children’s Research Institute
JANESSA MANNING Wayne State University
LILLIAN MATTHEWS Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School
DUSTIN MORACZEWSKI University of Maryland, College Park
JASON NOMI University of Miami
ZDENA OP DE MACKS UC Berkeley
DAVID PAGLIACCIO Section on Development and Affective Neuroscience
JEROD RASMUSSEN Univ. of California, Irvine
Science of Learning Symposium
For the 2017 Flux Congress, the Science of Learning Symposium, sponsored by the Jacobs Foundation, highlighted early career scientists who were identified based on merit and overall fit with the Flux mission.
2018 Science of Learning Symposium winners
TERESA IUCULANO, Université Paris – Sorbonne
DUNCAN ASTLE, University of Cambridge
TORKEL KLINGSBERG, Karolinska Institutet
2017 Science of Learning Symposium winners
GREGOIRE BORST, Paris Descartes University
JASON YEATMAN, University of Washington
CAROLYN JOHNSON, Harvard University
OLA OZERNOV-PALCHIK, Tufts University
2016 Science of Learning Symposium winners
SAMANTHA DEPASQUE UCLA
ALYSSA KERSEY University of Rochester
WOUTER VAN DEN BOS Max Planck Institute for Human Development