Florin Dolcos is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology and a full-time faculty member in the Beckman Institute’s Cognitive Neuroscience Group. His research investigates the neural correlates of emotion-cognition interactions in healthy and clinical populations. Dr. Dolcos performed his PhD research in cognitive and affective neurosciences at the University of Alberta’s Centre for Neuroscience and Duke University’s Centre for Cognitive Neuroscience, and his post-doctoral training in cognitive, affective, and clinical neurosciences at Duke University’s Brain Imaging and Analysis Center. Dr. Dolcos joined the University of Illinois following an Assistant Professor appointment in the University of Alberta’s Department of Psychiatry.
Honors: Dr. Dolcos received a NSERC Post-Doctoral Fellowship from the Natural Sciences & Engineering Research Council of Canada (2006), the Laird Cermak Award for Early Contributions to Memory Research from the Memory Disorders Research Society (2006), a Young Investigator Award from the National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression (2007), and a CPRF Award from the Canadian Psychiatric Research Foundation (2008).
