Christopher A. Podlesnik
University of Florida
My research focuses on the role of fundamental conditioning processes in choice and the emergence and re-emergence of behavior. Some of this research is translational and pertains to understanding lapses and relapse of behavior, with the goal of making behavioral treatments for challenging or dangerous operant behavior more durable. I have been faculty in the Behavior Analysis Program at the University of Florida since 2022, after previously holding faculty positions at Auburn University, the Florida Institute of Technology where I became a BCBA-D in 2016, 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 and Program Chair for the Society for the Quantitative Analyses of Behavior, and served as board member for the Society for the Experimental Analysis of Behavior. I received the 2011 BF Skinner Early Career Award and the 2024 Don Hake Translational Research Award, both from Division 25 of the American Psychological Association; the 2016 Federation of Associations in Behavior and Brain Sciences Early Career Impact Award and the 2026 Society for the Advancement of Behavior Analysis Award for Scientific Translation, both from the Association for Behavior Analysis International; and now the honor of becoming an ABAI fellow. I received my PhD from Utah State University and a BA from West Virginia University.