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CHRISTOPHER KRUPENYE, Ph.D.
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CURRENT POSITIONS

JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY
  Assistant Professor, Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences      July 2022 – present
  Director, Social & Cognitive Origins group                                                   July 2022 – present
  Faculty Affiliate, SNF Agora Institute                                                             July 2022 – present
  Secondary Faculty, Center for Functional Anatomy & Evolution              July 2024 – present

ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT

JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY, Baltimore, USA                                                        
  Assistant Professor, Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences      July 2022 – present
  Faculty Affiliate, SNF Agora Institute                                                             July 2022 – present 

  Secondary Faculty, Center for Functional Anatomy & Evolution              July 2024 – present
  Assistant Research Professor                                                                         July 2020 – June 2022
  Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences

DURHAM UNIVERSITY, Durham, UK                                                                       
  Honorary Fellow                                                                                              May 2022 – present
  
Postdoctoral Research Associate                                                                  January 2020 – April 2022 
  Department of Psychology
  Advisor: Dr. Zanna Clay

UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS, St Andrews, UK                                                       January 2018 – Dec 2019
  Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellow
  School of Psychology and Neuroscience
  Advisors: Drs. Josep Call and Malinda Carpenter

​MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY                                   June 2016 – Dec 2017
  Postdoctoral Researcher
  Department of Developmental and Comparative Psychology
  Leipzig, Germany

  Advisors: Drs. Michael Tomasello and Josep Call

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EDUCATION

DUKE UNIVERSITY, Durham, NC                                                                                ​                  May 2016
  Ph.D. in Evolutionary Anthropology                                                                                          
  Dissertation: "Social decision-making in bonobos and chimpanzees"
  Advisors: Drs. Brian Hare and Anne Pusey

KYOTO UNIVERSITY Primate Research Institute, Inuyama, Japan                                          2012-2013
   Visiting PhD student
   Advisor: Dr. Ikuma Adachi
 
CONNECTICUT COLLEGE, New London, CT                                                                                   May 2011
  B.A. (summa cum laude) in Biological Sciences 


ACADEMIC HONORS​
2025    Society for Behavioral Neuroscience and Comparative Psychology Early Career Investigator Award
2024    American Psychological Association Distinguished Scientific Award for Early Career Contribution to Psychology in the area of animal learning and behavior, comparative
2024    Comparative Cognition Society Early Career Award
2023    Azrieli Global Scholar in Brain, Mind and Consciousness, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research
2023    Scialog Fellow in Molecular Basis of Cognition, Research Corporation for Science Advancement
2022    Rising Star, Association for Psychological Science
2021    New Investigator Award, European Human Behaviour and Evolution Association
2019    Alumni Environmental Achievement Award, Connecticut College Goodwin-Niering Center for the Environment
2018    Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellow, European Commission
2016    Krupenye et al (2016) selected by Science as one of the top ten breakthroughs of 2016
2016    Outstanding Student ePoster Award, Chimpanzees in Context, Chicago, USA
2011    National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow
2014    USAID & National Academy of Sciences Research and Innovation Fellow
2010    Phi Beta Kappa
2010    Winthrop Scholar, Connecticut College (the college’s highest academic honor, top 3% of 2011 graduating class)
2010    Barry M. Goldwater Scholar, U.S. Congress
2010    Sybil A. Hausman Prize for Excellence in Biology, Connecticut College Biology

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