{"id":2292,"date":"2025-12-16T17:33:21","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T17:33:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/psychology\/?p=2292"},"modified":"2025-12-16T17:33:21","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T17:33:21","slug":"geoff-woodman-named-2025-distinguished-alumnus-award-winner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/psychology\/2025\/12\/16\/geoff-woodman-named-2025-distinguished-alumnus-award-winner\/","title":{"rendered":"Geoff Woodman named 2025 Distinguished Alumnus Award Winner"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Geoff Woodman<\/a>, PhD<\/p>\n

Professor of Psychology,\u00a0E. Bronson Ingram Chair of\u00a0Neuroscience,\u00a0<\/b><\/span><\/div>\n
Vanderbilt University<\/b><\/span><\/div>\n

From the nomination letter: <\/span><\/p>\n

After earning his undergraduate and doctoral degrees in psychology from the University of Iowa working with <\/i>Steve Luck (then at Iowa), Geoff joined Vanderbilt as a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Psychology with\u00a0<\/i>Jeff Schall and Marvin Chun (when both of them were also at Vanderbilt) from 2002-2006. After his postdoctoral\u00a0<\/i>fellowship, Geoff was appointed as a Research Assistant Professor, then hired as a tenure-track Assistant\u00a0<\/i>Professor in 2007. He rose through the ranks to his current professorship and named chair.\u00a0<\/i>Geoff is a leading expert in the use of event-related potentials (ERP) to understand the interactions between\u00a0<\/i>attention and short-term and long-term memory.\u00a0<\/i>In\u00a0<\/i>collaboration with Schall, Geoff did important translational\u00a0<\/i>work examining intracranial electrophysiological activity gives rise to ERPs at the scalp in macaque monkeys. He\u00a0<\/i>has conducted ground-breaking work on the cognitive effects of transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS),\u00a0<\/i>including collaborative projects with Sohee Park examining the effects of tDCS in patients with schizophrenia.\u00a0<\/i>He was the recipient of the Troland Awards from the National\u00a0<\/i>Academy of Sciences, the Young Investigator Award from the Vision Sciences Society, and a Vanderbilt\u00a0<\/i>Chancellor’s Award for Research. His work has been cited 17,745 times, he has an h-index of 58, and based on a\u00a0<\/i>vita I received from him last winter, he has 115 peer-reviewed publications.\u00a0<\/i>He\u00a0<\/i>has received numerous grants over the course of his distinguished career from NSF and\u00a0<\/i>NIH.\u00a0<\/i>He is the PI of the\u00a0<\/i>VVRC\u00a0<\/i>NIH\u00a0<\/i>training grant in vision science.\u00a0\u00a0<\/i>Geoff is also an outstanding teacher and mentor.\u00a0<\/i>His former trainees have had great success,\u00a0<\/i>including several in faculty positions at places like University of Amsterdam, University of Toronto, Boston <\/i><\/span>University, University of Tennessee, and Lehigh University.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Geoff Woodman, PhD Professor of Psychology,\u00a0E. Bronson Ingram Chair of\u00a0Neuroscience,\u00a0 Vanderbilt University From the nomination letter: After earning his undergraduate and doctoral degrees in psychology from the University of Iowa working with Steve Luck (then at Iowa), Geoff joined Vanderbilt as a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Psychology with\u00a0Jeff Schall and Marvin Chun (when…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":187,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[3],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2292"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/187"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2292"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2294,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2292\/revisions\/2294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}