Professor Edmund Sonuga-Barke PhD, FBA, FMedSci, MAE
Professor of Developmental Psychology, Psychiatry and Neuroscience, Kings College London.
Honorary Skou Professor, Aarhus University, Denmark.
Visiting Research Professor, University of Hong Kong
Edmund is a developmental psychologist who studies the causes, course and developmental consequences of mental health and neuro-developmental conditions. Motivated by his own childhood experience of learning and behaviour difficulties, he has devoted his research career to improving the life chances of young people, especially those with neurodevelopmental conditions, such as ADHD. To this end he has developed new ways of thinking about and studying neurodevelopment using experimental developmental neuroscience methods and theories.
Edmund is an elected Fellow of The Academy of Medical Sciences (2016), The British Academy (2018),The Danish Academy of Honorary Skou Professors (2019) and a Member of the Academia Europea (2023). He is Editor-in-Chief of The Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry. Edmund is a Roman Catholic husband and father, cigar evangelist, soul music aficionado & lifelong Derby County fan (:(). He is the proud current holder of the Digital Youth Mover & Shaker Award for his dancing.
