Megan Gunnar, Ph.D.
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Regents Professor and Distinguished McKnight University Professor, Institute of Child Development,
University of Minnesota
Megan Gunnar, Ph.D., is a Regents Professor and Distinguished McKnight University Professor in the Institute of Child Development at the University of Minnesota. Her research focuses on the emotional and social processes that regulate physiological responses to stressful events early in childhood.
She is on the editorial boards of Child Development, Infancy, Psychoneuroendocrinology, and Emotion. She has served on the advisory board to the Director of the National Institute of Mental Health and is the recipient of a National Institute of Mental Health Research Scientist Career Award. She was a member of the Committee on Integrating the Science of Early Childhood Development for the Institute of Medicine and the National Research Council of the National Academy of Sciences.
She earned a Ph.D. in developmental psychology from Stanford University and completed a post-doctoral fellowship in developmental psychobiology at Stanford Medical School.
