Biography
Terrie E. Moffitt, Ph.D., is the Professor of Social Development at King’s College London since 1996, and is now also Nannerl O. Keohane University Professor of Psychology at Duke University. Her expertise is in the areas of longitudinal methods, developmental theory, clinical mental health research, neuropsychology, and genomics in behavioral science. She is interested in the consequences of a lifetime of mental and behavioral disorder on processes of aging. 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 the UK. Her research team was among the first cohorts to collect DNA, in 1996. Her team emphasizes representing science accurately to the media, and promotes public understanding of behavioural science. Prof. Moffitt also is a licensed clinical psychologist, with specialization in neuropsychological assessment. She has a published record of collaboration with criminologists, economists, geneticists, epidemiologists, sociologists, demographers, gerontologists, statisticians, neuroscientists, medical scientists, even opthalmologists and dentists.
Prof. Moffitt’s work was recognized in 2018 by election to the US National Academy of Medicine. She holds honorary doctorates from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium, and Universitat Basel, Switzerland. For her research, Prof. Moffitt has received both the American Psychological Association's Early Career Contribution Award and Distinguished Career Award. Prof. Moffitt was also awarded a Royal Society-Wolfson Merit Award, the Klaus-Grawe Prize, and was a recipient of the Stockholm Prize in Criminology, NARSAD Ruane Prize, and Klaus J. Jacobs Research Prize. Her service includes as a trustee of the Nuffield Foundation in the UK, member of the National Advisory Council on Aging in the USA, and chair of the Jury for the Klaus J. Jacobs Prize in Switzerland. She is a fellow of the British Academy, Academy of Medical Sciences (UK), Academia Europa, Association of Psychological Science, and the American Society of Criminology. Dr. Moffitt attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for her undergraduate degree in psychology. She continued her training in psychology at the University of Southern California, receiving an M.A. in experimental animal behavior, and a Ph.D. in clinical psychology. She also completed postdoctoral training at University of California, Los Angeles Neuropsychiatric Institute.
Further details are available at Prof. Moffitt's personal website.
Research interests:
Mental disorder and aging
Research groups:
E-Risk Study group
Dunedin Study group
Expertise and Public Engagement:
Her service includes as a trustee of the Nuffield Foundation in the UK, member of the National Advisory Council on Aging in the USA, and chair of the Jury for the Klaus J. Jacobs Prize in Switzerland.
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Sugden, K., Moffitt, T., Em Arpawong, T., Arseneault, L., Belsky, D., Corcoran, D., Crimmins, E. M., Hannon, E., Houts, R., Mill, J., Poulton, R., Ramrakha, S., wertz, J., Williams, B. & Caspi, A., 29 Mar 2023, (Accepted/In press) In: Journals of Gerontology Series. B, Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences. Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Newbury, J., Arseneault, L., Moffitt, T., Odgers, C., Howe, L. D., Bakolis, I., Reuben, A., Danese, A., Sugden, K., Williams, B., Rasmussen, L. J. H., Trotta, A., Ambler, A. & Fisher, H., 19 Mar 2023, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Schizophrenia Bulletin. Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review. DOIs: https://doi.org/10.1093/schbul/sbad017
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Madrid-Valero, J. J., Matthews, T., Barclay, N. L., Odgers, C., Moffitt, T., Caspi, A., Arseneault, L. & Gregory, A. M., 16 Jan 2023, (Accepted/In press) In: Sleep. Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Caspi, A., Houts, R., Fisher, H., Danese, A. & Moffitt, T., 3 May 2023, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Clinical Psychological Science. Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Poulton, R., Guiney, H., Ramrakha, S. & Moffitt, T. E., 2022, (Accepted/In press) In: Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand. Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review. DOIs: https://doi.org/10.1080/03036758.2022.2114508
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Brayne, C. & Moffitt, T. E., Sep 2022, In: Nature Aging. 2, 9, p. 775-783 9 p. Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review. DOIs: https://doi.org/10.1038/s43587-022-00277-x
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Taylor, P. J., van den Bree, M. B. M., Williams, N. & Moffitt, T. E., 1 Jan 2014, Forensic Psychiatry: clinical, legal and ethical issues, Second Edition. Taylor and Francis Ltd, p. 186-210 25 p. Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review. DOIs: https://doi.org/10.1201/b15462-8
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Knodt, A. R., Meier, M. H., Ambler, A., Gehred, M. Z., Harrington, H. L., Ireland, D., Poulton, R., Ramrakha, S., Caspi, A., Moffitt, T. E. & Hariri, A. R., 1 Dec 2022, In: Biological psychiatry. 92, 11, p. 861-870 10 p. Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review. DOIs: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsych.2022.06.018
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Agnew-Blais, J. C., Wertz, J., Arseneault, L., Belsky, D. W., Danese, A., Pingault, J. B., Polanczyk, G. V., Sugden, K., Williams, B. & Moffitt, T. E., Oct 2022, In: Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry and Allied Disciplines. 63, 10, p. 1153-1163 11 p. Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review. DOIs: https://doi.org/10.1111/jcpp.13659
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Latham, R., Arseneault, L., Alexandrescu, B., Baldoza, S., Carter, A., Moffitt, T., Newbury, J. & Fisher, H., Dec 2022, In: Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology. 57, 12, p. 2379-2391 13 p. Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review. DOIs: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00127-022-02343-6