Johannes Rojahn, Ph.D. Professor Program Director, School Psychology Office: 10340 Democracy Lane, Suite 202 Phone: (703) 993-4241 E-mail: jrojahn@gmu.edu

Dr. Johannes Rojahn, Professor of Psychology and Director of the School Psychology Program, is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA) and of the American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities. He earned his doctoral degree at the University of Vienna (Austria) in clinical psychology. After a post-doctoral Fulbright-Hayes fellowship at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, and before joining GMU he taught at the University of Marburg (Germany), the University of Pittsburgh Medical School (Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic), and The Ohio State University.

His main academic interest is in intellectual and developmental disabilities (including autism), especially the areas of [1] challenging behavior (especially self-injurious behavior) and other psychopathology, [2] applied behavior analysis, and [3] socio-emotional development (emotion recognition) and interpersonal functioning. Dr. Rojahn has published more than 100 scientific articles and book chapters, and is senior author of Self-Injurious Behavior in Intellectual Disabilities (2008), co-editor of the Handbook of Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (2006) and Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Mental Health Research in Intellectual Disabilities, and Associate Editor for Research in Developmental Disabilities. He also serves on several editorial boards of scientific journals in the area of intellectual/developmental disabilities.