Dr. Kiehl is currently an Associate Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at the University of New Mexico and the Director of the Mobile Imaging Core and Clinical Cognitive Neuroscience at the MIND Institute in Albuquerque, NM. Dr. Kiehl
conducts clinical neuroscience research of major mental illnesses, with special focus on criminal psychopathy, substance abuse, and psychotic disorders. Dr. Kiehl uses non-invasive techniques for measuring brain function, including event-related potentials (ERPs) and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). He has authored over 60 peer-reviewed manuscripts and book chapters and he currently holds four major NIH R01 grants in the areas of adolescent psychopathy, adult psychopathy, substance abuse, and early stage psychosis, totally more than $7M. He is also a Co-PI or consultant on eight additional major NIH grants.
Dr. Kiehl received his undergraduate degree in psychology/neuroscience at The University of California Davis where he began his scientific career in as research assistant in the Center for Neuroscience working with Michael Gazzaniga and George Mangun. He completed his masters and doctorate in psychology in 2000 from the University of British Columbia under the tutelage of Robert Hare and Peter Liddle. Following graduate school, Dr. Kiehl worked as an Assistant/Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at Yale University School of Medicine and he was also the Director of Clinical Cognitive Neuroscience at the Olin Neuropsychiatry Research Center at the Institute of Living from 2001-2007.
