Suparna Rajaram | |
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| Born | Bellary, India |
| Occupation | SUNY Distinguished Professor of Psychology |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | Bangalore University, Purdue University, Rice University |
| Academic work | |
| Institutions | Stony Brook University |
Suparna Rajaram, SUNY Distinguished Professor of Psychology at Stony Brook University, is an Indian-born cognitive psychologist and expert on memory and amnesia.[1] Rajaram served as Chair of the Governing Board of the Psychonomic Society (2008) and as president of the Association for Psychological Science (2017–2018).[2] Along with Judith Kroll and Randi Martin, Rajaram co-founded the organization Women in Cognitive Science in 2001, with the aim of improving the visibility of contributions of women to cognitive science.[3] In 2019, she was an inaugural recipient of Psychonomic Society's Clifford T. Morgan Distinguished Leadership Award for significant contributions and sustained leadership in the discipline of cognitive psychology.[4]
Rajaram is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Psychonomic Society,[5] the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Psychological Association, the Eastern Psychological Association,[6] and the Association for Psychological Science. She is also a member of the Society of Experimental Psychologists, a prestigious honor society dedicated to psychology.[7] In 2022, Rajaram was named a Guggenheim Fellow.