He is the Professor of Psychiatry at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

[1] Porges is currently the Director of the Kinsey Institute Traumatic Stress Research Consortium at Indiana University Bloomington,[2] which studies trauma.

[citation needed] He proposed the still-unproven polyvagal theory in 1994, which is not endorsed by current social neuroscience.

[3][4][5][6][7][8] Porges is currently a psychologist with interests in cranial nerve responses, particularly as they relate to both humans and animals.

Later, Porges received a Master of Arts and PhD in Psychology from Michigan State University.