Carol A. Barnes, Ph.D. is a neuroscientist and a Regents' Professor of psychology at the University of Arizona.[1] Since 2006, she has been the Evelyn F. McKnight Chair for Learning and Memory in Aging[2] and is director of the Evelyn F. McKnight Brain Institute.[3] Barnes has been president of the Society for Neuroscience[4] and is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science,[5] and foreign member of the Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters.[6] She was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2018.[7]