Dr. Christopher Podlesnik
My research focuses on the role of fundamental conditioning processes in choice and the relapse of operant behavior, with interests in translating this research to understand and develop behavioral treatments for challenging behavior. I am faculty in the Behavior Analysis Program at the University of Florida, after previously holding faculty positions at Auburn University, the Florida Institute of Technology, and The University of Auckland. I also completed a post doctoral fellowship in the Pharmacology Department at the University of Michigan. I served as Associate Editor for the Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior and Behavioral Processes, am past President of the Society for the Quantitative Analyses of Behavior, and served as board member for the Society for the Experimental Analysis of Behavior. I received both the 2011 BF Skinner Early Career Award from Division 25 of the American Psychological Association and the 2016 Federation of Associations in Behavior and Brain Sciences Early Career Impact Award for the Association for Behavior Analysis International. I am a BCBA-D and received my PhD from Utah State University and a BA from West Virginia University.
Current Graduate Supervision
Doctoral students
- Carolyn Ritchey, M.S., BCBA
- Carla Martinez-Perez, B.S.
- Kyleigh Montague, B.S.
Previous Graduate Supervision
Doctoral students
- John Y. H. Bai, PhD
- Vikki Bland, PhD
- Arnja dale, PhD
Masters Students
- Stephanie Brand, M.S., BCBA
- Jonas Chan, M.S.
- James Fleet, M.S.
- Jane Fullerton, M.S.
- Courtney Hannula, M.S., BCBA
- Thuong Ho, M.S., BCBA
- Madeleine Keevy, Ph.D., BCBA
- Ashley Liggett, M.S., BCBA
- Kelsey Purcell, M.S., BCBA
- Tiara Putri, M.S., BCBA
- Carolyn Ritchey, M.S., BCBA
- Samuel Shvarts, M.S., BCBA
- Jamie Villegas, M.S., BCBA
- Weizhi Wu, M.S., BCBA