About Tobias

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Tobias Grossmann is a Professor of Psychology at the University of Virginia where he directs the UVA Babylab.

His research focuses on the early development of the social, cognitive and brain processes that underpin adaptive social cognition and behavior. He earned his Ph.D. in Psychology from the Max Planck Institutes for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences and Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany. He was then awarded a Sir Henry Wellcome Fellowship at the Center for Brain and Cognitive Development at Birkbeck, University of London, UK. Before joining UVA, he led an independent research group at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Leipzig and received his Habilitation from Heidelberg University.

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Selected International Awards

  • Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (2022)

  • Fellowship Award, Association of Psychological Science (2018)

  • Mercator Fellowship Award, German Research Foundation (2015)

  • Early Career Award, International Society on Infant Studies (2012)

  • Early Career Research Award, Society for Research in Child Development (2011)

Selected Major Grants/Funding as Principal Investigator

  • National Science Foundation (USA): The developmental origins of social interaction processing in the human brain (2020)

  • National Science Foundation (USA): Epigenetic influences on the early development of social brain functions (2017)

  • Max Planck Society (Germany): Developing social minds - A neuroscience perspective (2012)

  • Wellcome Trust (United Kingdom): The role of prefrontal cortex in the development of uniquely human social cognition (2007)

Editorial Activity

Cognition, Editorial Board (since 2021)

Developmental Review, Editorial Board (since 2019)

Infancy, Editorial Board (since 2018)

PLOS Biology, Editorial Board (since 2018)

 

I acknowledge the Monacan People as the traditional custodians of the land in and around Charlottesville, and acknowledge that UVA was built by enslaved laborers.