Elliot Tucker-Drob

Elliot Tucker-Drob
Associate Professor of Psychology, University of Texas at Austin

Elliot Tucker-Drob is an Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of Texas at Austin. His research uses methods from developmental psychology, genetics, neuroscience, and human ecology to address the questions of how and why different people progress along different life trajectories. He is particularly interested in how genetic variation combines and interacts with social, economic, and educational experiences to influence cognitive development, academic achievement, personality, and psychiatric health from infancy through late adulthood. Elliot Tucker-Drob is a Jacobs Foundation Advanced Research Fellow 2018-2020.


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