Tim Rogers, Professor of Psychology and Faculty Fellow at the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery, has been named the recipient of the 6th Jeffrey L. Elman Prize for Scientific Achievement and Community Building. The award recognizes mid-career cognitive scientists whose accomplishments exemplify the twin strands of scientific excellence and commitment to community-building and service.
An alum of the University of Waterloo and Carnegie Mellon University, Rogers worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the MRC Cognition and Brain Science Unit at the University of Cambridge before beginning his career as a faculty member at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His research explores human semantic cognition – how it is stored and represented in the mind and brain, how it develops in childhood, and how it degrades in dementia. Additionally, Rogers helped found and currently directs the Master’s Program in Data Science and Human Behavior at UW-Madison.
Rogers will be celebrated at the CogSci 2025 Conference in San Francisco this summer with a prize and dedicated symposium. Learn more about his significant contributions to the field here. Congratulations, Professor Rogers!