Thomas F. Shipley, Ph.D., is a Professor of Psychology at Temple University. Dr. Shipley earned his B.A. at Swarthmore College in 1982. He continued his education at the University of Pennsylvania, where he received his M.A. in Psychology in 1983 and his Ph.D. in Psychology in 1988. He previously taught at the University of Georgia and served as a Visiting Professor at the University of the Mediterranean. He is area director for the Cognition and Neuroscience program in the department of Psychology. Since 2008 he has collaborated with geologists to combine the social science of spatial reasoning with the natural science of the structure and history of the Earth to support geoscience student learning and scientist practice. Honors include Outstanding Paper Award from the Journal of Geoscience Education, and the Collaboration Award from the Geoscience Education Research Division of National Association of Geoscience Teachers. He served as the co-chair for the 2011 Cognitive Society meeting, and was elected to vice chair 2021, and co-chair 2023 of the Gordon Research Conference on Visualization. He is a member of the Psychonomic Society and Geological Society of America. Dr. Shipley has served as a reviewer for various journals including Applied Cognitive Psychology, Computers and Geosciences, Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, Spatial Cognition and Computation: An Interdisciplinary Journal, Vision Research, and many more.