Architecture of Life Lectures | Lucia Jacobs on the Nature of Place in dialogue with Nicholas de Monchaux

Lucia Jacobs received her B.S. in Biology (Neurobiology & Behavior) from Cornell University. She completed her Ph.D in 1987 in the Department of Biology (Ecology & Evolutionary Biology) at Princeton University. She then moved to the Department of Psychology, University of Toronto, as a NATO Fellow and later as NIH NRSA fellow, and continued her training in psychology and neuroscience with further fellowships funded by NSF and NIMH at the Universities of Pittsburgh and Utah. She joined the Department of Psychology at Berkeley as an Assistant Professor in 1993, where she is now Professor of Psychology and a member of the Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute. She is broadly interested in understanding the mechanisms by which adaptive cognitive traits evolve from simpler building blocks.