Speaker
Terrie E Moffitt
Professor of Social Development at King’s College London and Nannerl O. Keohane University Professor of Psychology at Duke University
Biography
Terrie E. Moffitt’s expertise is in the areas of lifelong aging, mental health, antisocial behaviour, and longitudinal research. She is the associate director of the Dunedin Longitudinal Study, which follows a 1972 birth cohort in New Zealand. She also founded the Environmental Risk Longitudinal Twin Study (E-Risk), which follows a 1994 birth cohort in Britain. Dr. Moffitt is a licensed clinical psychologist. She is an elected fellow of the US National Academy of Medicine, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, British Academy, UK Academy of Medical Sciences, and Association of Psychological Science. Moffitt is recipient of the Stockholm Criminology Prize, the Klaus J Jacobs Prize, the NARSAD Ruane Prize, and the 2022 Grawemeyer Prize for her work on antisocial behaviour and mental health. Moffitt received her PhD in psychology at the University of Southern California, and completed her postdoctoral training at the UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute. She holds appointments at Duke University, King's College London, and the University of Oslo. She enjoys working on her poison-ivy farm in North Carolina. Learn more at www.moffittcaspi.com.