Susan Iversen

Susan "Sue" Diana Iversen CBE FMedSci (born 28 February 1940)[1] is a British experimental psychologist. She is a former Professor of Psychology at the University of Oxford.

Early life

She is the daughter of Jack and Edith Kibble. She attended Girton College, Cambridge. At Cambridge she did a BA in Zoology, and a PhD in Experimental Psychology.

Career

University of Cambridge

She was a Fellow of Girton College from 1964-75. From 1981-93 she was a Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge. She was President from 1984-86 of the British Association for Psychopharmacology, which publishes the Journal of Psychopharmacology, and the Experimental Psychology Society from 1988-90.

University of Oxford

She was a Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford from 1993-2005, and also Professor of Psychology. She was Head of the Department of Experimental Psychology from 1993-2000. She became a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences in 1999.[2] She was the Editor of Neuropsychologia from 1997-2000.

Personal life

She married Prof Leslie Iversen FRS in 1961. They have a son and a daughter. She was appointed a CBE in the 2005 New Year Honours.

References

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