Simon Baron-Cohen, Ph.D.
Simon Baron-Cohen, Ph.D., Director of the Autism Research Centre (ARC) in
Cambridge, England, is Professor of Developmental Psychopathology at the University
of Cambridge and Fellow at Trinity College, Cambridge. He holds degrees in
Human Sciences from New College, Oxford, a Ph.D. in Psychology from University
College, London, and an M.Phil. in Clinical Psychology at the Institute of Psychiatry.
He is Director of the Cambridge Lifespan Asperger Syndrome Service, a
clinic for adults with suspected autism. He is author or editor of numerous books
for both scholarly audiences and parents and teachers and is author of the DVDROM
Mind Reading, nominated for a BAFTA for Best Off-Line Learning. He is also
editor-in-chief of the online open access journal Molecular Autism. He has received
awards from the American Psychological Association, the British Association for
the Advancement of Science, and the British Psychological Society for his research
into autism, which currently is focused on testing the “extreme male brain” theory.
He has been president of the Psychology Section of the BA and vice president of the
International Society for Autism Research as well as the National Autistic Society.