Alexander Todorov
Alexander Todorov is a Bulgarian professor of psychology at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. Before his current position, he was a professor at Princeton University. His research is focused on how humans perceive, evaluate, and make sense of the social world. Todorov's research on first impressions has received media coverage from the "New York Times", "The Guardian", "The New Yorker", "The Daily Telegraph", "Scientific American", "National Geographic", BBC, PBS, and NPR. Early life and education. Todorov was born and grew up in Kardzhali, Bulgaria. He was in his first college year at Sofia University  when the communist system collapsed in that country. In 1995, Todorov studied for a year at Oxford University, the UK, and in 1996, he moved to the U.S. Todorov completed a master's degree at the New School for Social Research, New York City, in 1998 and a PhD degree at New York University in 2002. Career. Since the summer of 2020, Todorov has been a faculty member of University of Chicago Booth School of Business. Currently, Todorov is a Leon Carroll Marshall Professor of Behavioral Science and Rosett Faculty Fellow. From 2002 through 2020, Todorov was a faculty member  of Princeton University. At Princeton University, Todorov was a professor and associate chair of the department of psychology, an associated faculty member of the Princeton Neuroscience Institute, and an affiliated faculty member of the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. Todorov was a visiting scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation in New York City, at the Institute for Advanced Studies of the University of Bologna, Italy, and a visiting professor at Radboud University, Nijmegen, the Netherlands. Todorov is a recipient of the SAGE Young Scholar Award from the Foundation for Personality and Social Psychology and of Guggenheim Fellowship