Jonas Olofsson#
Photo: Erik Thor
| Membership Number: | 5880 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | THE HUMAN MIND AND ITS COMPLEXITY |
| Elected: | 2021 |
| Main Country of Residence: | SWEDEN |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.su.se/profiles/jool8931-1.185013 |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-0856-0569 |
| Twitter: | @jokriolo |
| Linkedin: | https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonas-olofsson-5570747b |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2019 - present Professor, Department of Psychology, Stockholm University
- 2018 - present Wallenberg Academy Fellow, Department of Psychology, Stockholm University
- 2016 - present Adjunct Associate Professor, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Department, New York
- University
- 2014 - 2019 Senior Lecturer (Universitetslektor), Department of Psychology, Stockholm University
- 2013 - 2017 Pro Futura Scientia fellow, Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study, Uppsala
- 2009 - 2014 Assistant Professor (Biträdande Universitetslektor; tenure track), Department of Psychology,
- Stockholm University (with leaves of absence for postdoc and Pro Futura Scientia fellowship)
- 2009 - 2011 Postdoctoral researcher, Jay Gottfried lab, Northwestern University
- 2008 - 2009 Postdoctoral researcher, Ivanka Savic and Stefan Wiens labs, Stockholm Brain Institute (Karolinska
- Institute and Stockholm University)
- 2003 - 2008 PhD candidate, Department of Psychology, Stockholm University. Main supervisor Steven Nordin,
- co-supervisor Maria Larsson
- 2001 - 2003 Research assistant to Steven Nordin and Peter Juslin, Department of Psychology, Umeå University
- 2017 Visiting researcher (12 months), Donald Wilson lab, New York University and Nathan Kline Institute,
- New York
- 2005-2006 Visiting researcher (9 months), John Polich lab, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla
Fields of Scholarship
- Perception, memory and emotion
- Focus on how the sense of smell, olfaction, affects these processes
- How odors might affect social processes through studies using a variety of behavioral and brain activity methods
Honours and Awards
- The only researcher who has been elected to the Pro Futura Scientia Fellows, Wallenberg
- Academy Fellows and the Young Academy of Sweden, three leading initiatives in Sweden for the most promising early-career researchers across all disciplines
- 2020: The Swedish National Committee for Psychological Sciences, elected member
- 2018: Young Academy of Sweden (founded by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences), elected member of the board
- 2016: Wallenberg Academy Fellows, elected fellow
- 2015: Young Academy of Sweden, elected member
- 2012: Pro Futura Scientia VII, elected fellow
- 2010: Award for young researchers in Psychology by The Swedish National Committee for Psychological Sciences
- 2009: Fulker Award, Behavior Genetics Association award for best article in the journal Behavioral Genetics
