Essi Maria Viding FBA FMedSci is

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of Developmental Psychopathology at

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in the Faculty of Brain Sciences, where she co-directs the Developmental Risk and Resilience Unit, and an associate of King's College London's

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. Viding's research focuses on development of disruptive behaviour disorders, as well as children and young people's mental health problems more broadly. She uses cognitive experimental measures, brain imaging and genetically informative study designs in her work.

Education

Viding was educated at King's College London where she was awarded a PhD in 2004 for research supervised by

Francesca Happé Francesca Gabrielle Elizabeth Happé (born 1967) is Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience and Director of the MRC Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College Lond ...

. She did her postdoctoral research under the supervision of Robert Plomin.

Awards and honours

Viding was the 2011 winner of the British Psychological Society's

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, and received the 2017

Rosalind Franklin Award The Royal Society Rosalind Franklin Award was established in 2003 and is awarded annually by the Royal Society to an individual for outstanding work in any field of Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) and to support the promo ...

. She was elected Fellow of the British Academy in 2020 and Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences in 2021.

Publications

* ''Psychopathy: A Very Short Introduction'', 2019

References

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