Jed Elison received his Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and conducted postdoctoral training in social neuroscience at the California Institute of Technology. He is currently an associate professor at the Institute of Child Development, with a joint appointment in the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Minnesota.

Elison is currently advancing an interdisciplinary program of research, situated at the intersection of infant social cognition, the development of the social brain and the emergence of clinically impairing behaviors during the toddler and preschool-age periods. His current work focuses on developmental processes that contribute to functional specialization of neural systems underlying typical and atypical social cognition across the first three years of life.