Eduardo Salas
Professor of Psychology – Organizational Behavior (by courtesy)
Eduardo’s primary appointment is in the department of Psychological Sciences as Allyn R. & Gladys M. Cline Chair and Professor of Psychology.
Dr. Eduardo Salas was born in Lima, Peru and began his career 40 years ago after graduating from Old Dominion University with a Ph.D. degree in Industrial and Organizational Psychology.
Dr. Salas was a Senior Research Psychologist and Head of the Training Technology Development Branch of NAVAIR-Orlando for 15 years. During this period, Dr. Salas served as a principal investigator for numerous R&D programs focusing on teamwork, team training, advanced training technology, decision-making under stress, learning methodologies and performance assessment. He continued as a Trustee Chair and Pegasus Professor of Psychology at the University of Central Florida and Program Director for Human Systems Integration Research Department at the Institute for Simulation & Training. For the last 8 years, he is the Allyn R. & Gladys M. Cline Chair Professor in Psychology and Chair of the Department of Psychological Sciences at Rice University.
Dr. Salas has co-authored over 650 journal articles and book chapters and has co-edited 36 books plus authored two books on team training and the science of teamwork. His work has been cited over 133,000 times with an h-index of 183. He is on/has been on the editorial boards of Journal of Applied Psychology, Personnel Psychology, Journal of Management, Military Psychology, Applied Psychology: An International Journal, Group Dynamics, Journal of Organizational Behavior, and many others. He is past Editor-in-Chief of Human Factors Journal, Associate Editor of Journal of Applied Psychology, American Psychologist and Military Psychology. Most recently, he edited the special issue for the 100th year Anniversary of the Journal of Applied Psychology and an issue on the Science of Teamwork for American Psychologist.
He is a Past President of the Society for Industrial/Organizational Psychology (SIOP), and the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (HFES), Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA), the HFES and the Association for Psychological Science, and a recipient of the Meritorious Civil Service Award from the Department of the Navy. He is also the recipient of the 2007 Jack A. Kraft Innovator Award and the 2009 A.R. Lauer Safety Award both from the HFES; 2012 Society for Human Resource Management Losey Lifetime Achievement Award; the 2012 Joseph E. McGrath Award for Lifetime Achievement from the INGroup; the 2012 Distinguished Professional Contributions & 2016 Distinguished Scientific Contributions Award, a four-time winner (2001, 2007, 2009 & 2013) of the M. Scott Myers Award for Applied Research in the Workplace, and the 2023 Wayne Casio Scientist-Practitioner Award, all of these awarded by SIOP. In addition, he received the 2016 Lifetime Achievement Award for Contributions to Psychology from the APA and the 2023 James McKeen Cattell Fellow Award for outstanding lifetime contributions to the area of Applied Psychological Research from the APS and the 2023 American Psychological Foundation Gold medal Award for Impact in Psychology.
He is a pioneer in the fields of teamwork, team effectiveness, team training and learning, and individual training. He helps organizations on how to foster teamwork, design and implement team training strategies, facilitate training effectiveness, manage decision making under stress, develop performance measurement tools, and design learning environments. He is currently working on designing tools and techniques to minimize human errors in oil and gas, aviation, law enforcement and medical environments. He has consulted to a variety of manufacturing, pharmaceutical laboratories, industrial, and governmental organizations.