He is a professor of psychiatry, neurosciences, and psychology at the University of California, San Diego, and a Senior Research Career Scientist at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center, San Diego.

[1] He subsequently completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Albert Einstein College of Medicine.

[2] Next Squire accepted a position as a faculty member at the University of California San Diego, where he has remained since.

[3] He is an elected member of the National Academy of Sciences as of 1993,[4] and served on the governing Council from 2009 to 2012.

[6] He received the Charles A. Dana Award for Pioneering Achievements in Health in 1993,[7] the Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award from the American Psychological Association in 1993,[8] the William James Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science in 1994,[9] the William Middleton Award from the United States Department of Veterans Affairs in 1994,[10] the Metlife Foundation Award for Medical Research in Alzheimer's Disease in 1999,[11] the Karl Spencer Lashley Award from the American Philosophical Society in 1995, "for his seminal contribution to the delineation of implicit and explicit memory systems in the brain",[12] the McGovern Award from the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2004,[13] the Herbert Crosby Warren Medal from the Society of Experimental Psychologists in 2007,[14] the Award for Scientific Reviewing from the National Academy of Sciences in 2012,[15] and the Goldman-Rakic Prize from the Brain & Behavior Research Foundation in 2012.