Walter Wilczynski

Walter Wilczynski (September 18, 1952, in Trenton, New Jersey – June 9, 2020, in Atlanta, Georgia )

Career In 1983, Wilczynski joined the faculty of the University of Texas at Austin as an assistant professor of psychology. He remained on the faculty of the University of Texas at Austin until 2005, when he joined the faculty of GSU. While at the University of Texas at Austin, he helped found the Institute for Neuroscience and the interdisciplinary neuroscience Ph.D. program there. At GSU, he became a professor of psychology upon joining their faculty in 2005. He has been the co-director of research and academic programs at GSU's Center for Behavioral Neuroscience since 2005, and had been the director of GSU's Neuroscience Institute since it was formed in 2008. In 2013, he received a five-year, $499,209 grant from the National Science Foundation to create the Sociogenomics Initiative Research Coordination Network, which unites researchers in the U.S. and Canada working in the field of sociogenomics.

Research Wilczynski's research focused on the study of neural origins of social behavior in animals. This research drew upon multiple separate disciplines, including neuroanatomy, neuroendocrinology, and neurophysiology.

Awards and memberships Wilczynski was a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and Sigma Xi, among other organizations. He was also an editorial board member of the Journal of Zoology (2007–2010) and an associate editor of Animal Behaviour (1997–2000).