Meet one of the newest YCSC community members: Aakash Chowkase

The Yale Child Study Center (YCSC) – which serves as the department of child psychiatry at the Yale School of Medicine – welcomes and introduces new community members on an on-going basis. All new faculty, staff, and trainees are invited to share bios and photos upon joining the department, and those who wish to participate are announced approximately monthly. This month, meet Aakash Chowkase, PhD, who joined the YCSC on November 1.

Aakash Chowkase, PhD recently joined the implementation science team at the Center for Emotional Intelligence as an associate research scientist. Before joining Yale, he completed a PhD in educational psychology at Purdue University and a postdoctoral fellowship at UC Berkeley’s Greater Good Science Center. Chowkase has 17 years of experience in the education and nonprofit sectors. His research broadly focuses on developing measures and programs to nurture empathy, compassion, and prosocial behavior in adolescents and youth, helping the next generation expand their circle of concern and foster a more inclusive society. He received two dissertation awards from the American Educational Research Association and the National Association for Gifted Children. He is also the co-founder of the Jnana Prabodhini Foundation, a U.S.-based nonprofit dedicated to creating sustainable change in education and health for children and women in rural India. Learn more about Chowkase’s work.