Essi Viding


Essi Maria Viding is Professor of Developmental Psychopathology at University College London in the Faculty of Brain Sciences, where she co-directs the Developmental Risk and Resilience Unit, and an associate of King's College London's Institute of Psychiatry. Viding researches persistent antisocial behaviour and development disorders using cognitive experimental measures, brain imaging and genotyping.

Education

Viding was educated at King's College London where she was awarded a PhD in 2004 for research supervised by Francesca Happé.

Awards and honours

Viding was the 2011 winner of the British Psychological Society's Spearman Medal, and received the 2017 Rosalind Franklin Award.

Publications