Dr. Tim Vollmer
Professor and Associate Chair of Psychology
University of Florida Research Foundation Professor 2004-2006.
Colonel Allan R. and Margaret G. Crow Term Professor. 2008.
University of Florida Term Professorship 2016-2018 and 2019-2021.
Contact Information
Email: vollmera@ufl.edu
Phone: (352) 273-2179
Office: 331 Psychology Building
Mailing address:
Department of Psychology
945 Center Drive
University of Florida
PO Box 112250
Gainesville, FL 32611
Brief Biography
Timothy R. Vollmer received his Ph.D. from the University of Florida in 1992. From 1992 until 1996 he was on the psychology faculty at Louisiana State University. From 1996 to 1998 he was on the faculty at the University of Pennsylvania Medical School. He returned to the University of Florida in 1998, where he has been ever since, and is now a Professor and Associate Chair of Psychology. His primary area of research is applied behavior analysis, with emphases in autism, intellectual disabilities, reinforcement schedules, and parenting. He has published over 200 articles and book chapters related to behavior analysis. He was the recipient of the 1996 B.F. Skinner New Researcher award from the American Psychological Association (APA). He received another APA award in August 2004, for significant contributions to applied behavior analysis, and received the Don Hake translational research award in 2022. He served as the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis from 2014-2016. He is a fellow of the Association for Behavior Analysis (ABAI), and he received the ABAI mentoring award in 2017. More recently, he received the University of Florida Dissertation Advisor Mentoring Award in 2022.