Bio

Simon Baron-Cohen, Ph.D.

Simon Baron-Cohen is Professor of Developmental Psychopathology at the University of Cambridge and Fellow at Trinity College, Cambridge. He is also Director of the Autism Research Centre (ARC) in Cambridge (www.autismresearchcentre.com). The author of numerous publications, including Mindblindness; The Essential Difference; and Prenatal Testosterone in Mind, Dr. Baron-Cohen has also edited a number of scholarly anthologies, including Understanding Other Minds; The Maladapted Mind; and Synaesthesia. He has also written books for parents and teachers (Autism and Asperger Syndrome: The Facts) and Teaching children with autism to mind read). He is author of the DVD-ROM Mind Reading: an interactive guide to emotions (Jessica Kingsley Ltd, 2003) and The Transporters (www.thetransporters.com, 2007), both of which were nominated for BAFTA awards. Among his numerous honors and awards are prizes from the American Psychological Association, the British Association for the Advancement of Science (BA), and the British Psychological Society (BPS). Dr. Baron-Cohen is the 2009 Vice President of the International Society for Autism Research (INSAR) and the co-editor in chief of the new journal Molecular Autism.