Professor Robert Plomin FBA
- Fellow type
- UK Fellow
- Year elected
- 2005
- Subjects
- Psychology
- Sections
- Psychology
- Website
- http://teds.ac.uk
Summary
Professor Robert Plomin's research focuses on learning abilities and disabilities using quantitative and molecular genetic techniques. He directs one of the world's premier twin studies, the Twins Early Development Study (TEDS), which has followed over 10,000 twin pairs since birth in 1994-1996 to the present day. Professor Plomin has an 'h-index' of 93 based on more than 800 papers; he has also published a dozen books, including the major textbook in the field of behavioural genetics. He has received lifetime achievement awards from five scientific associations.
Current post
Deputy Director of Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College, London, and MRC Research Professor
Past appointments
Institute of Psychiatry MRC Research Professor & Deputy Director
1994 -
King's College London University of London Deputy Director of Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College, London, and MRC Research Professor
1994 -
King's College London University of London Deputy Director of Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College, London, and MRC Research Professor
1994 -
Penn State University Professor, Centre for Development and Health Genetics
1986 - 1994
Other Foreign Institutions Asistant Professor to Professor, Institute for Behavioral Genetics
1974 - 1986
Publications
Other Fellows of the British Academy
Professor Barbara Sahakian FBA
Neuropsychology, neuropsychiatry, psychopharmacology, neuroimaging and neuroethics. Focusing on cognition, motivation and their interaction in neurological and psychiatric disorders and brain injury.
Professor Richard Aslin FBA
Psychological development of infants and young children with a focus on language learning, visual perception and the brain mechanisms that support these fundamental skills.
Professor Gordon Brown FBA
Human memory; decision-making in context; the incommensurability of value; money and happiness; polarisation; relationship between income inequality, conspicuous consumption, and nationalism.
