Adriana Galván

Adriana Galván
Occupation(s)Professor of Psychology; Dean of Undergraduate Education at UCLA
Awards
  • William T. Grant Foundation Young Scholars Award (2013)
  • APA Division 7 Boyd McCandless Award (2014)
  • Cognitive Neuroscience Society Young Investigator Award (2016)
  • APA Early Career Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award (2016)
  • National Academy of Sciences Troland Award (2019)
  • Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (2019)
Academic background
Alma materBarnard College (BA)
Weill Medical College (PhD)
ThesisNeural Substrates and Development of Reward-Related Behavior
Academic work
DisciplineBehavioral neuroscience
InstitutionsUniversity of California, Los Angeles

Adriana Galván is an American psychologist and expert on adolescent brain development. She is a professor of psychology at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) where she directs the Developmental Neuroscience laboratory. She was appointed the Jeffrey Wenzel Term Chair in Behavioral Neuroscience and the Dean of Undergraduate Education at UCLA.