Terrie E. Moffitt#
| Membership Number: | 2295 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | THE HUMAN MIND AND ITS COMPLEXITY |
| Elected: | 2005 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.genome.duke.edu/people/faculty/moffitt/index.php http://www.moffittcaspi.com |
Present and Previous Positions
- Professor of Social Behaviour and Development, MRC Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London
- Nannerl O. Keohane University Professor, Departments of Psychology and Neuroscience, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, and Institute for Genome Sciences and Policy, Duke University
Fields of Scholarship
- Gene - environment interplay in psychopathology
- Natural history of mental disorders from childhood to adulthood
- Antisocial behavior and domestic violence
- Neuropsychological assessment and intelligence
- Longitudinal methods
- Measurement of abnormal behavior
Honours and Awards
- American Psychological Association's Early Career Contribution Award (1993)
- Distinguished Career Award in Clinical Child Psychology (2006)
- the Stockholm Prize for work in criminology (2007)
- Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences (1999), the American Society of Criminology (2003), the British Academy (2004), and Academia Europaea (2005)
- Joy and William Ruane Prize for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Research, from NARSAD the Brain & Behavior Research Foundation (2010)
- Named among the world’s top 400 biomedical scientists (2013)
