2024 Fellow of ABAI – Dr. Federico Sanabria
Dr. Federico Sanabria
Dr. Federico Sanabria obtained his Ph.D. from Stony Brook University under the mentorship of the late Howard Rachlin, and was a postdoctoral researcher at Arizona State University (ASU) under the supervision of Peter Killeen and Janet Neisewander. He is the Director of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging at the Department of Psychology at ASU. Dr. Sanabria was an associate editor of the Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior and of Learning & Behavior. He was the Program Board Coordinator for the annual meeting of ABAI and currently serves on the ABAI Science Board. Dr. Sanabria also serves as program chair and president-elect of the Society for the Quantitative Analysis of Behavior (SQAB), on the Executive Boards of SEAB and APA Division 25. He has also been a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Learning and Cognition; the Journal of Neuroscience, Psychology, and Economics; and Behavioral Neuroscience; among others. He has published over 70 empirical and theoretical papers and chapters on basic behavioral processes, as well as the entry on Pavlovian and instrumental conditioning for the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Psychology and a textbook on learning and conditioning. Dr. Sanabria’s research has been funded by NIH and NSF.