Avshalom Caspi

Meeting with the expert: Avshalom Caspi

The meeting with the expert is a space for dialogue with the keynote speaker on current issues in her area of expertise. In a warm and relaxed atmosphere, attendees can participate by asking questions to the expert and sharing with the audience their experience and opinion on different issues. Undoubtedly, it is the ideal framework for debate and exchange of views among clinical and health child and adolescent psychology.

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Avshalom Caspi, Ph.D., is the Edward M. Arnett Professor of Psychology & Neuroscience at Duke University, and Professor of Personality Development at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology, & Neuroscience, King’s College London. He obtained his undergraduate degree at the University of California, Santa Cruz and completed his Ph.D. at Cornell University (New York). He holds an honorary doctorate from Tilburg University, The Netherlands. He is involved in international teaching and training initiatives in developmental psychopathology. He is specialized in longitudinal methods, developmental psychology, personality assessment, life-course epidemiology, and genomics in behavioral science.

For his research, Dr. Caspi has received both the American Psychological Association’s Early Career Contribution Award and Distinguished Career Award. Dr. Caspi was also awarded a Royal Society-Wolfson Merit Award, and was a recipient of the Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award from the International Society for the Study of Behavioural Development, the Mortimer D. Sackler MD Prize for Distinguished Achievement in Developmental Psychobiology, the NARSAD Ruane Prize for Outstanding Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Research, and the Klaus J. Jacobs Research Prize for Productive Youth Development.