17 results for group: lifetime-achievement-winners
2025: William Revelle
William Revelle of Northwestern University was awarded the 2025 Lifetime Achievement Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Field of Intelligence, ISIR’s highest honor. Bill graduated from Pomona College in 1965, spent two years as a Peace Corps volunteer in Sarawak, Malaysia, and completed his PhD at the University of Michigan in 1973. He joined the faculty at Northwestern that same year and never left, chairing the psychology department twice along the way.
His research asks how personality, motivation, and cognition fit together. In a series of classic experiments in the 1970s and 1980s, he and his colleagues showed that the effect of ...
2024: Matt McGue
Matt McGue of the University of Minnesota was awarded the 2024 Lifetime Achievement Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Field of Intelligence, ISIR’s highest honor. Born in Oakland, California, Matt earned his psychology degree at the University of California, Berkeley in 1975 and his PhD at the University of Minnesota in 1981, where he studied under Thomas Bouchard. After four years at the Washington University School of Medicine he returned to Minnesota, becoming a full professor in 1992 and, today, a Regents Professor of psychology.
A behavioral geneticist, Matt has spent his career using twins, siblings, and adoptees to disentangle the ...
2023: Wendy Johnson
Wendy Johnson of the University of Edinburgh was awarded the 2023 Lifetime Achievement Award. Unable to attend the 2023 meeting in Berkeley, she formally accepted her award at the 2024 meeting in Zürich, where she delivered her address, "How did this elephant get in the room? Can/should we get it out?"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzOOtB9_j98
2022: Aljoscha Neubauer
Aljoscha Neubauer of the University of Graz has been awarded the 2022 Lifetime Achievement Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Field of Intelligence, ISIR’s highest honor. Aljoscha obtained his PhD at the University of Graz, Austria in 1986 and subsequently obtained his venia docendi (habilitation) in 1994 on the topic of intelligence and information processing speed. His experimental and meta-scientific work in this area contributed substantially to the understanding of the efficiency of neural networks.
His background in neuroscience led him to becoming particularly interested in the idea of biological intelligence measurement as a ...
2021: Richard Haier
ISIR has awarded Richard Haier the 2021 Lifetime Achievement Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Field of Intelligence. After obtaining a PhD from Johns Hopkins in 1975 (working in part with Julian Stanley), his was the first study designed to understand the role of brain function – measured with glucose metabolism (using Positron Emission Tomography: PET, in 1988) – during performance of a measure of abstract reasoning. Interestingly, the relationships were inverse, with higher scores being associated with lower glucose metabolism, a finding that became known as the “neural efficiency hypothesis.” He continued work relating both brain ...