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
Dr Karalyn Patterson FBA
The organisation of language and memory in adult humans, as revealed primarily by the impact of brain disease or injury, and including comparisons of English and Japanese languages
Professor Timothy Shallice FBA
The development of information-processing and connectionist models of cognitive processes, particularly of executive functions, memory, knowledge, reading and writing and their application to understanding the cognitive consequences of brain damage
