Priti Shah is Professor of Psychology, Information, and Education and a Faculty Associate in the Research Center for Group Dynamics of the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan; she is currently chair of the psychology department. She received her BA from the University of North Carolina and her PhD from Carnegie Mellon University in 1996. Her research focuses on higher level cognition (thinking, reasoning, problem solving), the basic cognitive mechanisms supporting these abilities (executive functions, attention), and educational application. She has edited 3 volumes and published over 100 articles and chapters. Her work has been funded by the NSF, NIH, ONR, IES, the Spencer Foundation, and the McDonnell Foundation. She was an Associate Editor at Memory & Cognition and has served on the Editorial Boards of the Journal of Educational Psychology and the JEP: Applied. She has received awards for her research, mentoring, and teaching.