Tess M.S. Neal, PhD

Her research has been funded by multiple grants from the National Science Foundation, and she has published one edited book and more than three dozen peer-reviewed publications in such journals as Psychological Science in the Public Interest, American Psychologist; PLOS ONE; Psychology, Public Policy, and Law; Law and Human Behavior; and Criminal Justice and Behavior. She serves as Editor-in-Chief for Psychology, Public Policy, and Law. She served from 2021-2023 as one of the three inaugural Open Science Advisors for Clinical Psychological Science and was been an associate editor at two different journals for several years.
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She was selected as a Fulbright Scholar to work with Kristy Martire and others at UNSW Sydney in 2022, and is a Fellow of both the Association for Psychological Science (2022) and American Psychological Association (2021). She was awarded ASU's Outstanding Mentor Award in 2020 and the 2021 Outstanding Teaching & Mentoring Award from the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues (Div. 9 of APA). She received early career awards for excellence in research from the American Psychology-Law Society (Div. 41 of APA) / American Academy of Forensic Psychology, as well as from the Society for Personality Assessment. 

Prior to moving to ISU in fall 2023, she was a tenured associate professor at Arizona State University, where she was the founding director of ASU's Future of Forensic Science Initiative and a co-founder of ASU's Law and Behavioral Science Initiative, which won the 2020 President's Award for Innovation.