Elena L. Grigorenko (born January 4, 1965) is an American clinical psychologist and the Hugh Roy and Lillie Cranz Cullen Distinguished Professor of Psychology at the University of Houston, where she has taught since September 2015. She is also a professor in the Department of Molecular and Human Genetics at Baylor College of Medicine. Biography Grigorenko received her Ph.D. in general psychology from Moscow State University in Moscow, Russia in 1990, and her Ph.D. in developmental psychology and genetics from Yale University in 1996. Before joining the faculty of the University of Houston, she was the Emily Fraser Beede Professor of Developmental Disabilities, Child Studies, Psychology, and Epidemiology and Public Health at Yale University. Honors and awards Grigorenko has received the American Psychological Association's Distinguished Award for Early Career Contribution to Developmental Psychology and the American Educational Research Association Sylvia Scribner Award, among other awards. References External links 1965 births Living people American women psychologists 20th-century American psychologists University of Houston faculty Baylor College of Medicine faculty Moscow State University alumni Yale University alumni Yale University faculty American women academics 21st-century American psychologists Russian psychologists Russian women psychologists 21st-century American women American clinical psychologists