People

Meet the team

Principal Investigators

• Professor Simon Baron-Cohen

  Director

  

• Professor Carrie Allison

  Deputy Director

  

• Dr Varun Warrier

  Associate Professor

  

• Additonal PI

  Recruiting

  

Collaborators

• Professor Topun Austin

  Consultant Neonatologist and Affiliate Associate Professor, University of Cambridge; Honorary Professor of Neurophotonics, University College London

  

• Professor Bonnie Auyeung

  Professor of Child Health and Developmental Science, University of Edingburgh

  

• Dr Richard Bethlehem

  Associate Professor of NeuroInformatics, University of Cambridge

  

• Professor Anders Børglum

  Professor, Centre Director, Aarhus University

  

• Professor Thomas Bourgeron

  Institut Pasteur

  

• Professor Jason Carroll

  Professor and Interim Director, Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute

  

• Professor Bhismadev Chakrabarti

  Professor of Neuroscience and Mental Health; Research Director, Centre for Autism, University of Reading

  

• Dr Lisa Croen

  Senior Research Scientist and the Director of the Kaiser Permanente Autism Research Program

  

• Dr Dorothea Floris

  Senior Scientist, Universität Zürich

  

• Professor Daniel Geschwind

  Gordon and Virginia MacDonald Distinguished Professor of Human Genetics, Neurology and Psychiatry, UCLA

  

• Professor Jakob Grove

  Professor, Department of Biomedicine, Aarhus University

  

• Professor Mark Johnson

  Professor/Chair of Experimental Psychology (1931) & Fellow of Kings College Cambridge

  

• Associate Professor, MD, Kyriaki Kosidou

  Senior lecturer and Associate Professor of Public Health Science, Karolinska Institutet; Senior Consultant and Head of the Unit for Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights, Region Stockholm

  

• Dr Meng-Chuan Lai

  Senior Scientist, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, Canada

  

• Professor Madeline Lancaster

  Group Leader, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology; Affiliate Professor, Cambridge Stem Cell Institute; Affiliate Professor, University of Cambridge

  

• Professor Michael Lombardo

  Principal Investigator of Neurodevelopmental Disorders, Italian Institute of Technology

  

• Dr Hilary Martin

  Group Leader, Wellcome Sanger Institute

  

• Dr Anna Penn

  L. Stanley James Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Columbia University

  

• Professor John Suckling

  Research Professor

  

• Dr Mark Taylor

  Associate Professor (Docent) in Epidemiology, Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm

  

Early Career Fellowships

• Yumnah Khan

  Doctoral Scientist

  

• Xinhe (Yira) Zhang

  Doctoral Scientist

  

Research Operations

• Director of Community Engagement

  Recruiting

  

• Communications Manager

  Recruiting

  

• Programme Manager

  Recruiting

  

Scientific Advisory Board

• Professor Sven Bölte

  Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Science; Director of the Center of Neurodevelopmental Disorders (KIND), Department of Women’s and Children’s Health, Karolinska Institutet

  

• Professor Ed Bullmore

  Regius Professor of Psychiatry, King’s College London

  

• Professor Francesca Happé

  Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience, King’s College London

  

• Professor Holden Thorp

  Editor-in-Chief, Science family of journals