John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship
Guggenheim fellowships are awarded to mid-career individuals who have demonstrated exceptional creativity or productive scholarship and exhibit great promise for their future endeavors. A highly competitive award, out of around 3000 applicants, approximately 175 fellows are chosen through a rigorous selection process.
2022-23 Honorees
Eduardo Mercado III
Department of Psychology
Eduardo Mercado III, PhD, professor of psychology, is an innovative scientist who investigates neural representations of acoustic events. An integrative and comparative researcher, his work employs techniques from experimental psychology, computational neuroscience, electrical engineering, and behavioral neuroscience to explore auditory learning, memory, and behavior in humans and other animals. For 2023-24, Mercado has received prestigious fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and the Harvard Radcliffe Institute to support his research on how humpback whales adjust their songs in response to their surroundings—work that radically contradicts the prevailing hypothesis suggesting why whales sing—and how this can provide warnings of changing ecosystems.