Susan Iversen

Susan Diana Iversen CBE FMedSci (born 28 February 1940)^[1] is a British experimental psychologist. She is a former Professor of Psychology at the University of Oxford^[3]

Early life and education[]

She attended Girton College, Cambridge. At Cambridge she did a BA in Zoology followed by a PhD in Experimental Psychology.^[when?]

Career and research[]

Iversen was a Fellow of Girton College, Cambridge from 1964-75. From 1981-93 she was a Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge. She served as president from 1984-86 of the British Association for Psychopharmacology, which publishes the Journal of Psychopharmacology, and the Experimental Psychology Society from 1988-90. She was a Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford from 1993-2005, and also Professor of Psychology. She served as head of the department of Experimental Psychology from 1993-2000.

Awards and honours[]

Iverson was elected a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences (FMedSci) in 1999.^[4] She served as editor of Neuropsychologia from 1997-2000. She was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2005 New Year Honours.

Personal life[]

She married Leslie Iversen in 1961.^{[citation needed]} They have a son and a daughter.^{[citation needed]} She is the daughter of Jack and Edith Kibble.^{[citation needed]}

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