Sarah Mangelsdorf

Sarah Charlotte Mangelsdorf is an American educator, scholar, and the eleventh president of the University of Rochester.

Career As a psychologist, the focus of Mangelsdorf's research has been on the social and emotional development of infants and toddlers.

Mangelsdorf was provost at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where she was credited with advancing fundraising, coping with budget cuts, improving the school's overall ranking, successfully retaining key faculty members, and improving relations with the state of Wisconsin. Her responsibilities at Madison included oversight of all academic programs for its twelve colleges and schools, including budgeting.

Mangelsdorf became the eleventh president of the University of Rochester in July 2019. She is the first woman to hold that post.

Personal life Mangelsdorf is married to Karl Rosengren, a developmental psychologist at the University of Rochester.

Her father, Paul Christoph Mangelsdorf Jr., was a physics professor at Swarthmore College, and her grandfather Paul Christoph Mangelsdorf was a professor of botany at Harvard University.