Elliot M. Tucker-Drob, Ph.D.

Elliot Tucker-Drob, Ph.D., is a courtesy professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Dell Medical School and a professor in the Department of Psychology in The University of Texas at Austin College of Liberal Arts.

Tucker-Drob’s research program seeks to clarify the biological, psychological and social mechanisms that give rise to person-to-person variation in cognitive development, cognitive aging and risk for psychiatric disease and dementia. His work combines multivariate and longitudinal statistical methods with approaches from human genetics, neuroscience, psychiatric epidemiology, psychology and demography.

Tucker-Drob’s research is funded by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, the National Institute on Aging, the National Institute of Mental Health and the Jacobs Foundation. He is the 2019 recipient of the Max Planck-Humboldt Medal.