Tobias Grossmann is a Professor of Psychology at the University of Virginia where he directs the UVA Babylab. His research focuses on the early development of the social, cognitive and brain processes that underpin adaptive social communication and behavior.
He earned his Ph.D. in Psychology from the Max Planck Institutes for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences and Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany. He was then awarded a Sir Henry Welcome Fellowship at the Center for Brain and Cognitive Development at Birkbeck, University of London, UK. Before joining UVA, he led an independent research group at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Leipzig and received his Habilitation from Heidelberg University’s Institute of Psychology.