Dr. Weems is a Professor in the Department of Human Development and Family Studies at Iowa State University. Dr. Weems received his education From Florida State University (Bachelors), Florida International University (PhD), and Stanford University (Post Doc). His research has centered upon basic and translational research in developmental psychopathology, and emotional development as well as risk and resilience following environmental crises and traumatic stress. Research themes have included: 1) basic research focused on testing contextual, bio-behavioral, and cognitive-developmental models of emotional development and emotional dysregulation, 2) improving the utility of assessment and measurement techniques and 3) intervention and prevention. His research has often focused interventions for school aged youth and improving academic outcomes though addressing emotional development. He is a fellow of the American Psychological Association and Association for Psychological. His research has been funded by the Environmental Protection Agency, National Institutes of Health, National Science foundation, National Institute of Justice, State Agencies, Private Foundations, and Industry. His scholarly works include over 160 peer reviewed journal articles, and a book the Neuroscience of Pediatric PTSD. His scholarship has been cited over 17,200 times (google scholar; h index of 73) by other researchers with national and international impact. Complete Lists of Published Works and its impacts are available in Google Scholar and Research gate:

Currently, Dr Weems is the principal investigator of ISU Child Welfare Research and Training Project grants (CWRTP ). These projects are aimed at using psychological science and empirical data to inform state social services practice and train state workers. He is also Co-Principal Investigator/Co-director of Enabling Sustainable Community Health through a Transdisciplinary ‘Translational Research Network’ (UTuRN ) In theory development, Weems developed a model of the effect of traumatic stress on amygdala development, developed a network model of PTSD in childhood and adolescence, and co-authored the first book on the neuroscience of pediatric PTSD. His work in theory has also included a model for understanding the developmental expression of anxiety disorders across childhood and into adolescence though understanding the role of statistical suppressor effects. A final area of his work is in intervention development and prevention programming for child and youth anxiety and PTSD. This research spans cognitive and behavioral methodology as well as physiological and neuroimaging studies and weaves the basic clinical science with applications in assessment, intervention development, prevention programming development and prevention evaluation.