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 Mahzarin Banaji FBA
Social cognition as it operates without conscious awareness or control and dissociated from intention and values; implicit bias arising from group memberships (age, class, ethnicity, gender, religion, nationality)
Professor Nicholas Tarrier FBA
The understanding of psychological and psychosocial mechanisms underlying mental disorders, particularly schizophrenia, psychoses and post-traumatic stress and the development and evaluation of psychological treatments to improve outcomes
Professor Gerd Gigerenzer FBA
Decision-making under uncertainty; ecological rationality of heuristics; the intelligence of intuition; statistical thinking in health care; risk communication and risk literacy
