Co-Founder and Scientific Director, Alpha Motivation Lab; Raymond Dickson Centennial Professor of Psychology; Founder and Director, Texas Behavioral Science and Policy Institute, The University of Texas at Austin; Co-Principal Investigator, The National Study of Learning Mindsets, the Texas Mindset Initiative, and the Texas Behavioral Science and Policy Institute; Former Fellow, The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching; Author, 10 to 25: The Science of Motivating Young People: A Groundbreaking Approach to Leading the Next Generation for Managers, Parents, and Educators (2024); Co-Author, "Peer Mindset Culture as a Developmental Context for Belonging" (2025, Educational Psychology Review), "A Values-Aligned Intervention Fosters Growth Mindset, Supportive Teaching, and Reduces Inequities in Educational Outcomes" (2023, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences) and "A National Study Reveals Where a Growth Mindset Improves Achievement" (2019, Nature)