AEC Fellows: Adrian Raine

Adrian Raine University of Pennsylvania, Department of Criminology, School of Arts & Sciences; Department of Psychiatry of the School of Medicine Email: araine@sas.upenn.edu

Adrian Raine, D.Phil., is the Richard Perry University Professor in the Departments of Criminology, Psychiatry, and Psychology at the University of Pennsylvania. After two years as an airline accountant with British Airways, he received his bachelor's degree in Experimental Psychology from Oxford University in 1977, and his D.Phil. in Psychology from York University, England, in 1982. After spending four year in two top-security prisons in England where he worked as a prison psychologist, he was appointed as Lecturer in Behavioral Sciences in the Department of Psychiatry, Nottingham University in 1984. In 1986 he became Director of the Mauritius Child Health project, a longitudinal study of child mental health that today constitutes one of his key research projects. He emigrated to the United States in 1987 to take up a position as Assistant Professor in Psychology at the University of Southern California. He was promoted to Associate Professor in 1990, and to Professor of Psychology in 1994. In 1999 he was given an endowed chair (Robert G. Wright Professorship of Psychology). Other awards include the Young Scientist of the Year Award from the British Psychological Society (1980), a Research Scientist Development Award from NIMH (1993), an Independent Scientist Award from NIMH (1999), the Joseph Zubin Memorial Award (1999), and USC’s Associate’s Award for Creativity in Research (2003). For the past 30 years, Dr. Raine’s research has focused on the neurobiological and biosocial bases of antisocial and violent behavior in both children and adults. He has published five books and over 200 journal articles and book chapters, been the principal investigator on 18 extramural research grants and main mentor on 9 NIH pre- and post-doctoral awards, and given over 200 invited presentations both nationally and internationally in 25 countries. His research interests include the neurobiology of violence, psychopathic, and antisocial behavior; schizotypal personality; brain imaging; psychophysiology; neurochemistry; neuropsychology; behavioral and molecular genetics.

 

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