Andrew Steptoe#

Andrew Steptoe graduated in Natural Sciences from Cambridge, and completed his doctorate at Oxford University in 1975. He was appointed lecturer in psychology at St. George's Hospital Medical School in 1977, and became professor and chair of the Department in 1988. He moved to his present research chair in the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health at University College London in 2000.

He is a past-president of the International Society of Behavioral Medicine, was founding editor of the British Journal of Health Psychology, an associate editor of Psychophysiology, the Annals of Behavioral Medicine, the British Journal of Clinical Psychology, and the Journal of Psychosomatic Research. He is also on the editorial boards of seven other journals.

His main research interests are in psychosocial aspects of health, stress and coping, health behaviour, ageing, and psychobiology.