Sven Bölte, Ph.D., is professor of child and adolescent psychiatric science at the Department of Women’s and Children’s Health, Karolinska Institutet (KI), and senior clinical psychologist at the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Center for Psychiatry Research, Stockholm County Council, Sweden. He is director of the KI Center of Neurodevelopmental Disorders (“KIND”), editor-in-chief of the Scandinavian Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychology and Psychiatry and founder of the Scientific Society Autism Spectrum (www.wgas.org) and international ADOS-2 and ADI-R trainer. Professor Bölte has been working in clinical research, education and practice for more than 30 years. For his achievements, he has received several recognitions, such as the ”Life Watch Nordiska Priset”, ”Årets Ljus” (Society Attention), Psynk award GNET” (Sweden’s Municipalities & Regions), Autism CRC (Australia) Achievement in Autism Research and ”Fellow of the International Society for Autism Research” (INSAR). Professor Bölte has published more than 500 original articles, reviews, book chapters, assessment and intervention tools in the field of autism, ADHD, and other neurodevelopmental conditions, and has been cited more than 48,000 times (H-index 106). In collaboration with the WHO and the ICF Research Branch, he leads the development and implementation of the International Classification of Functioning (ICF) Core Sets for autism and ADHD.
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
