Louis and a master’s degree and doctoral degree in clinical psychology from Purdue University. He completed his post-doctoral training at the University of Virginia before beginning his career as an assistant professor in the behavorial medicine department at the University of Virginia Medical School. He also worked as the Director of Geriatric Psychology at a hospital in Virginia and as the training director at a rehabilitation institute in Michigan. Now Lichtenberg is a professor of psychology at Wayne State University as well as the Director of both the Institute of Gerontology and the Merrill Palmer Skillman Institute. He is also the Founding Director of the Wayne State University Lifespan Alliance. Lichtenberg is also the author of six books and authored or co-authored more than 130 peer-reviewed journal articles.