Lis Nielsen
Chief
Individual Behavioral Processes Branch
National Institute of Aging
United States of America
Biography
Lis Nielsen is Chief of the Individual Behavioral Processes (IBP) Branch in the Division of Behavioral and Social Research (BSR) at the National Institute on Aging (NIA), National Institutes of Health (NIH). Nielsen has a BA in Philosophy from Rhodes College, MA in Psychology (cand. Psych.) from the University of Copenhagen, and a PhD in Cognitive Psychology and Cognitive Science from the University of Arizona. She held an NIA-funded NRSA Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Psychology of Aging at Stanford University.
Research Interest
Social, affective, and economic neuroscience of aging, Mechanisms of emotion, stress and health, Science of behavior change
