Terrie E. Moffitt

Terrie E. Moffitt is the Nannerl O. Keohane University Professor of Psychology at Duke University, and Professor of Social Development at King’s College London. Her expertise is in the areas of longitudinal methods, developmental theory, clinical mental health research, neuropsychology, and genomics in behavioral science. Moffitt also is a licensed clinical psychologist, with specialization in neuropsychological assessment. Through her research and publications, Moffitt has collaborated with criminologists, economists, geneticists, epidemiologists, sociologists, demographers, gerontologists, statisticians, and neuroscientists.

She is the Associate Director of the Dunedin Longitudinal Study, which follows a 1972 birth cohort in New Zealand. She also co-founded the Environmental Risk Longitudinal Twin Study (E-Risk), which follows a 1994 birth cohort in the UK. Moffitt received the American Psychological Association's Distinguished Career Award, a Royal Society-Wolfson Merit Award, the Klaus-Grawe Prize, and was a recipient of the Stockholm Prize in Criminology, NARSAD Ruane Prize, the Klaus J. Jacobs Research Prize, and in 2022 the Grawemeyer Prize.

Moffitt attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for her undergraduate degree in psychology. She continued her training at the University of Southern California, receiving an M.A. in experimental animal behavior, and a Ph.D. in clinical psychology.