Rate Professor Charan Ranganath

Academic Profile

Academic Background:

• Ph.D., Clinical Psychology, Northwestern University
• B.A., Psychology, University of California, Berkeley

Research Interests: Human memory, neurocognition, executive control, and the neural basis of memory processes using neuroimaging.

Appointments:

• Distinguished Professor, Department of Psychology, UC Davis
• Director, Dynamic Memory Lab, UC Davis

Awards:

• Guggenheim Fellowship
• Young Investigator Award, Cognitive Neuroscience Society

Publications:

• Why We Remember: Unlocking Memory’s Power to Hold on to What Matters (Doubleday, 2024)
• Articles in Nature Neuroscience, Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Additional Contributions: Frequent public speaker on memory and cognition.