Corinna Löckenhoff

Corinna E. Löckenhoff is an associate professor of Human Development at Cornell University and Gerontology in Medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine and a Fellow of the Gerontological Society of America.
Education
Löckenhoff obtained her undergraduate degree from the University of Marburg in Germany. She then got her Ph.D. from Stanford University and following it, did her postdoctoral training at the National Institute on Aging before coming to Cornell University in 2009.
Career
Löckenhoff's research focuses on how psychological factors vary with age and and what these variations imply for mental and physical health. She investigates age differences in decision making, and in 2015, she co-edited a book on this topic with Thomas M. Hess and JoNell Strough. She also studies the influence of personality and emotion upon health behaviors and outcomes, a line of inquiry exemplified in a 2016 book which Löckenhoff co-edited with Anthony Ong.
The Association for Psychological Science recognized Löckenhoff as a Rising Star in 2011, and she received the Margret M. and Paul B. Baltes Foundation Award in Behavioral and Social Gerontology from the Gerontological Society of America in 2014. She was elected fellow of the Gerontological Society of America in 2016.

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