Uta Frith#
Membership Number: | 1180 |
Membership type: | ORDINARY |
Section: | THE HUMAN MIND AND ITS COMPLEXITY |
Elected: | 1992 |
Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
Homepage(s): | http://sites.google.com/site/utafrith |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2007 Research Foundation Professor at Aarhus University
- 2006 Emeritus Professor in Cognitive Development University College London
- 1968 – 2006 Medical Research Council, Scientific Staff
- 1968 PhD Psychology Institute of Psychiatry, University of London
Fields of Scholarship
- Cognitive development
- Autism
- Dyslexia
- Social cognitive neuroscience
Honours and Awards
- Dame Commander of the British Empire “for services to clinical science”, 2012
- Honorary Doctorate Cambridge University, UK, 2012
- European Latsis Prize Brain and Mind, 2010
- Member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina – National Academy of Sciences
- Honorary Fellow Newnham College Cambridge, 2008
- Foreign Member of the Royal Society of Arts and Sciences in Göteborg, 2008
- Lifetime Achievement Award International Association for Autism Research, 2007
- Samuel T. Orton Award International Dyslexia Association, 2007
- Honorary Doctorate University of Nottingham, 2007
- Honorary Fellowship University College London, 2007
- Honorary Fellow of the British Psychological Society, 2006
- President of the Experimental Psychology Society, 2006-08
- Fellow of the Royal Society, 2005-07-09
- Honorary Doctorate, York University, 2004
- Laurea Honoris Causa, Palermo University, 2004
- Jean-Louis Signoret Prize of the Ipsen Foundation, 2003
- Fellow of the British Academy, 2001
- Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences, 2001
- Honorary Doctorate, University of St Andrews, 2000
- Honorary Doctorate, University of Göteborg, Sweden, 1998
- Member of the Academia Europaea, 1992