Eduardo Salas, PhD, is the Allyn R. & Gladys M. Cline Chair Professor and Chair of the Department of Psychological Sciences at Rice University. His expertise includes assisting organizations, including oil and gas, aviation, law enforcement and healthcare industries, in how to foster teamwork, design and implement team training strategies, how to create a safety culture and minimize errors, facilitate learning and training effectiveness, optimize simulation-based training, manage decision making under stress, and develop performance measurement tools. 

Salas has co-authored over 600 journal articles & book chapters and has co-edited 37 books and handbooks, authored one book on team training and has one on teamwork. His work has been cited over 100,000 times. He is a Past President of the Society for Industrial/Organizational Psychology (SIOP) and the Human Factors & Ergonomics Society (HFES). He is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA), Association for Psychological Science and HFES.  Salas is also the recipient of the 2012 Society for Human Resource Management Losey Lifetime Achievement Award, the 2012 Joseph E. McGrath Award for Lifetime Achievement from the Interdisciplinary Network of Group Research for his work on teams and team training and the 2016 APA Award for Outstanding Lifetime Contributions to Psychology.

He received his PhD (1984) in Industrial/Organizational Psychology from Old Dominion University.