Associate Professor

Ben Katz is an Associate Professor in Adult Development and Aging in the Department of Human Development and Family Science at Virginia Tech. His research focuses on the development of executive function, or the processes that support our capacities to learn, reason, think, and decide, throughout the life course, and how these processes might be influenced by experience and intervention. Before his academic career, he worked as a game designer in Austin and San Francisco, including at Lumosity.com