Terrie Moffitt, PhD

Professor of Psychology, King’s College London

Terrie Moffitt's current research investigates the consequences of adversity and mental disorders on a person's pace of biological aging. She works in the Dunedin Longitudinal Study in New Zealand, the Environmental-Risk Study in Britain, and national health registers in New Zealand, Denmark, and Norway. Dr. Moffitt is a fellow of the National Academy of Medicine, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the British Academy, the Academy of Medical Sciences (UK), and the Association of Psychological Science. She earned her PhD in clinical psychology at the University of Southern California, and did postdoctoral training in geriatrics and neuropsychology at the UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute. In 2023 she was inducted as a Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire. In her spare time, she works on her poison-ivy farm in North Carolina.