Jodi Quas

In 2017, Quas has selected to receive the Outstanding Community Research Award from the Institute for Clinical and Translational Science at University of California, Irvine in recognition of her contributions to developing "methods of enhancing children's eyewitness memory" and furthering understanding of "the effects of stress and trauma on children's development, and the consequences of legal involvement on child witnesses, victims, and even defendants."

In 2008, Quas was awarded the APA Distinguished Scientific Early Career Contributions to Psychology and the Robert L. Fantz Memorial Award for Young Psychologists.

Quas received the Louise Kidder Early Career Award from the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues in 2002 and the Saleem Shah Early Career Award from the American Psychology–Law Society, American Psychological Association (APA) Division 41 in 2004.

After completing a two-year post-doctoral fellowship at the University fo California, Berkeley, Quas joined the faculty of the University of California, Irvine in 2000.

Quas was born in Chicago, IL. She attended Arizona State University, where she received her B.S. degrees in Psychology and Communication in 1992. She continued her education in Developmental Psychology at the University of California, Davis, where she complete her M.A. in 1994 and her Ph.D. in 1998. Her dissertation titled "Children's memory of experienced and nonexperienced events across repeated interviews" was conducted under the supervision of Gail Goodman.

Jodi Anne Quas (born January 31,1969) is an applied developmental psychologist who is known for her work on how maltreatment and abuse affect memory development and children's ability to give eyewitness testimony after experiencing trauma. She holds the position of Professor of Psychological Science and Nursing Science at the University of California, Irvine School of Social Ecology.