Professor Robert Plomin

Professor Robert Plomin is MRC Research Professor in Behavioural Genetics at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King’s College London. There he helped launch the Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Research Centre, the goal of which was to bring together genetic and environmental strategies to understand individual differences in behavioural development.

In 1995, he began the Twins Early Development Study (TEDS), which has followed 10,000 pairs of UK twins from infancy through early adulthood and has been continuously funded for 25 years as a programme grant from the Medical Research Council.