Terrie Moffitt

I am Associate Director of the Dunedin Longitudinal Study, which follows a 1972 birth cohort in New Zealand (references 1,2). I also co-founded the Environmental Risk Longitudinal Twin Study (E-Risk), which follows a 1994 birth cohort in the UK. Longitudinal research is an inherently horizon-scanning enterprise, and I relish forward planning, anticipating new trends, and asking new questions. My work is about as interdisciplinary as it gets; my team often generates discoveries when we make dataset combinations across previously unconnected disciplines. I am a licensed clinical psychologist, with specialization in neuropsychological assessment. I have a published record of collaboration with criminologists, economists, geneticists, epidemiologists, sociologists, demographers, gerontologists, statisticians, neuroscientists, medical scientists, even ophthalmologists and dentists. The resulting products make impact (Google scholar H-index of 205, January 2022).