*In April 2022, the university announced our new name of Toronto Metropolitan University, which will be implemented in a phased approach. Learn more about our next chapter.*
Dr. Lixia Yang
Dr. Lixia Yang received her Ph.D in psychology from Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2000. She then worked as a postdoctoral research fellow first at the Max‐Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin, Germany, then at the University of Toronto. In 2005, Dr. Yang joined the Department of Psychology at Ryerson University. Dr. Yang’s research has been funded through NSERC and Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR). To date, Dr. Yang has 54 peer-reviewed publications, a list of 35 invited talks and 80 conference presentations. Her research has been published in high-impact journals such as Brain and Cognition, Cognition and Emotion, Psychology and Aging, and Psychological Science. As a recognition of her contribution to student supervision, Dr. Yang received the Ryerson 2015 YSGS (Yeates School of Graduate Studies) Outstanding Contribution to Graduate Education Award. In professional service, Dr. Yang served as the associate editor for the Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Adulthood and Aging and as a reviewer for a list of journals and grant agents.
TMCIS occupies space in the traditional and unceded territory of nations including the Anishnaabeg, the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Chippewa, the Haudenosaunee, and the Wendat peoples, and territory which is also now home to many diverse First Nations, Inuit, and Métis peoples. This territory is covered by Treaty 13 signed with the Mississaugas of the Credit, as well as the Williams Treaties signed with multiple Mississaugas.