Education

• PhD, USC, 1979
• AM, USC, 1976
• BA, Pace University, 1973

Research

• Gerontechnology
• Neuroscience
• Cognition
• Memory
• Language Comprehension

Overview

Elizabeth Zelinski, PhD, is a Professor of Gerontology and Psychology at the USC Leonard Davis School of Gerontology. Zelinski has joint appointments in the Psychology Department, Neurosciences and the Study of Women and Men in Society (SWMS) Programs.

Zelinski graduated summa cum laude from Pace University and received her graduate degrees in psychology, with a specialization in aging, from the University of Southern California. She was a postdoctoral fellow at Claremont Graduate School.

Zelinski is the principal investigator of the Long Beach Longitudinal Study. This study evaluates cognition, memory and language comprehension in older adults as well as the relationship between peoples’ perceptions of their memory ability and their actual performance, and how these change as people grow old. In 2016, Zelinski received the Distinguished Faculty Award from the Association for Gerontology in Higher Education (AGHE).