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CESR Staff

CESR Staff

Deborah Finkel
  • Arie Kapteyn
  • Marco Angrisani
  • Alan Arredondo
  • Silvia Helena Barcellos
  • Andrew Becker
  • Daniel Bennett
  • Marta Bilghese
  • Wandi Bruine de Bruin
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  • Leandro Carvalho
  • Mario Chen
  • Sandy Chien
  • Aidan Cole
  • Graciela Corona
  • Jill Darling
  • Ashlesha Datar
  • Kayla de la Haye
  • Brian Finch
  • Deborah Finkel
  • Grigory Franguridi
  • Maya Fransz-Myers
  • Titus Galama
  • Yadira Garcia
  • Marshall Garland
  • Margaret Gatz
  • Hooman Gol
  • Sarah Goldstein
  • Mark Gonzalez
  • Tadeja Gracner
  • Hunter Green
  • Tania Gutsche
  • Orla Hayden
  • Angelica Hernandez
  • Raymond Hernandez
  • Danish Jain
  • Marai Jimenez Ortiz
  • Brett Jordan
  • Doerte U. Junghaenel
  • Miles Kimball
  • Dave Knapp
  • Tarra Kohli
  • Jinkook Lee
  • Pey-Jiuan Lee
  • Yeeun Lee
  • Ruby Ling
  • Ying Liu
  • Rachel Lobo
  • Italo Lopez Garcia
  • Jessica Lozano
  • Kelly Luo
  • Jill Luoto
  • Soeren Mattke
  • Erik Meijer
  • Mary Mitchell
  • Michael Moldoff
  • Emma Nichols
  • Bart Orriens
  • Eva Ortega
  • Astrid Ouyang
  • Tabasa Ozawa
  • Blake Palomino
  • Hae Yeun Park
  • Francisco Perez-Arce
  • Sarah Petrosyan
  • Drystan Phillips
  • Olivia Pomeroy
  • Maria Jose Prados
  • Lila Rabinovich
  • Amie Rapaport
  • Catalina Ruple
  • Anna Saavedra
  • Swaroop Samek
  • Evan Sandlin
  • Htay-Wah Saw
  • Simone Schaner
  • Stefan Schneider
  • Daniel Silver
  • Arthur Stone
  • Alejandra Tantamango
  • Kyla Thomas
  • Meynard John Toledo
  • Rory Torres
  • Patrick Turley
  • Pam Tyler
  • Michael Upchurch
  • Marymar Vacio
  • Arthur Wang
  • Michele Warnock
  • Maya Wedemeyer
  • Bas Weerman
  • McKayla Wenner
  • Jenny Wilkens
  • Chrys Xie
  • Codi Young
  • Gema Zamarro
  • Alyssa Zhou
  • Deborah Finkel
  • Arie Kapteyn
  • Marco Angrisani
  • Alan Arredondo
  • Silvia Helena Barcellos
  • Andrew Becker
  • Daniel Bennett
  • Marta Bilghese
  • Wandi Bruine de Bruin
  • Jeremy Burke
  • Leandro Carvalho
  • Mario Chen
  • Sandy Chien
  • Aidan Cole
  • Graciela Corona
  • Jill Darling
  • Ashlesha Datar
  • Kayla de la Haye
  • Brian Finch
  • Grigory Franguridi
  • Maya Fransz-Myers
  • Titus Galama
  • Yadira Garcia
  • Marshall Garland
  • Margaret Gatz
  • Hooman Gol
  • Sarah Goldstein
  • Mark Gonzalez
  • Tadeja Gracner
  • Hunter Green
  • Tania Gutsche
  • Orla Hayden
  • Angelica Hernandez
  • Raymond Hernandez
  • Danish Jain
  • Marai Jimenez Ortiz
  • Brett Jordan
  • Doerte U. Junghaenel
  • Miles Kimball
  • Dave Knapp
  • Tarra Kohli
  • Jinkook Lee
  • Pey-Jiuan Lee
  • Yeeun Lee
  • Ruby Ling
  • Ying Liu
  • Rachel Lobo
  • Italo Lopez Garcia
  • Jessica Lozano
  • Kelly Luo
  • Jill Luoto
  • Soeren Mattke
  • Erik Meijer
  • Mary Mitchell
  • Michael Moldoff
  • Emma Nichols
  • Bart Orriens
  • Eva Ortega
  • Astrid Ouyang
  • Tabasa Ozawa
  • Blake Palomino
  • Hae Yeun Park
  • Francisco Perez-Arce
  • Sarah Petrosyan
  • Drystan Phillips
  • Olivia Pomeroy
  • Maria Jose Prados
  • Lila Rabinovich
  • Amie Rapaport
  • Catalina Ruple
  • Anna Saavedra
  • Swaroop Samek
  • Evan Sandlin
  • Htay-Wah Saw
  • Simone Schaner
  • Stefan Schneider
  • Daniel Silver
  • Arthur Stone
  • Alejandra Tantamango
  • Kyla Thomas
  • Meynard John Toledo
  • Rory Torres
  • Patrick Turley
  • Pam Tyler
  • Michael Upchurch
  • Marymar Vacio
  • Arthur Wang
  • Michele Warnock
  • Maya Wedemeyer
  • Bas Weerman
  • McKayla Wenner
  • Jenny Wilkens
  • Chrys Xie
  • Codi Young
  • Gema Zamarro
  • Alyssa Zhou

Deborah Finkel

Research Scientist
Contact
VPD 401
dgfinkel@usc.edu
Biographical Sketch
Deborah Finkel is a Research Scientist (50%) at CESR. She graduated from the University of Minnesota with a PhD in Behavior Genetics in 1992. Starting in 2018, Deborah has a position as professor of psychology (50%) at Jönköping University in Sweden. Her research focuses on genetic and environmental contributions to cognitive aging using longitudinal twin data, with extended interests in related areas: physical aging, self-rated health, health disparities. She has worked extensively with the Swedish twin studies and is currently PI of GENDER, a study of opposite-sex twins aged 70+ in Sweden, and is on the leadership team of the IGEMS: Interplay of Genes and Environment across Multiple Studies. She also collaborates with the team currently extending the Louisville Twin Study into midlife. Deborah is past-president of the Behavior Genetics Association and a Fellow of the Gerontological Society of America.
Education
Ph.D. Psychology, University of Minnesota, 1992
B.S. Psychobiology and Applied Math, Centre College of Kentucky, 1986
Employment
Research Scientist, University of Southern California, 2023
Professor, Institute for Gerontology, Jönköping Univesity, 2018
Professor, Indiana University Southeast, 2001-2022
Associate Professor, Indiana University Southeast, 1997-2001
Assistant Professor, Indiana University Southeast, 1992-1997
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