Mary Dozier is the Executive Director of ABC Parenting Institute, Unidel Amy E. duPont Chair and Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences at the University of Delaware in the United States. She has studied the development of young children in foster care and young children living with neglecting birth parents, examining challenges in attachment and regulatory capabilities. Along with her graduate students and research team, she developed Attachment and Biobehavioral Catch-up (ABC) for parents of vulnerable infants. In 2016, she was named the Francis Alison Professor, the university’s highest faculty honor. In 2018, she received the International Society for Infancy Studies Translational Research Award and was the 2019 recipient of the American Psychological Association Urie Bronfenbrenner Award for Lifetime Contribution in Developmental Psychology in the Service of Science and Society.