Dr. John Salamone received his bachelor's degree from Rockhurst University in Kansas City, Missouri in 1978, and his Ph.D. from Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia in 1982.  For postdoctoral training, Dr. Salamone received a National Science Foundation grant and studied at Cambridge University in England, working with Susan Iversen and Trevor Robbins. Dr. Salamone stayed in England for several more years, working at Merck, Sharpe and Dohme pharmaceutical laboratories. Upon returning to the US, Dr. Salamone joined the Behavioral Neuroscience department at the University of Pittsburgh in 1986, and joined the University of Connecticut in 1988. Dr. Salamone has published more than 260 articles and book chapters focused on research in the fields of behavioral neuroscience and neuropsychopharmacology, focusing on the neural circuitry regulating motivation, with a particular emphasis on studies related to animal models of effort-related decision making, fatigue, depression and Parkinsonism. He was inducted as a member of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2002, and he has received the University of Connecticut Alumni Association Award for Excellence in Teaching.  He also received the Joseph V. Brady Research Award in 2015, is the co-editor-in-chief of Frontiers in Behavioural Neuroscience: Motivation and Reward. Dr. Salamone is a Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor, chair of the Interdisciplinary Program in Neuroscience, and the head of the Behavioral Neuroscience Division of the Psychological Sciences Department at the University of Connecticut.