Ami Klin PhD

Professor (Adjunct) in the Child Study Center and Professor of Psychology

Biographical Info

Ami Klin, Ph.D. is the Harris Professor of Child Psychology and Psychiatry at the Yale Child Study Center, Yale University School of Medicine. He directs the Autism Program at Yale, which is one of the designated National Institutes of Health Autism Centers of Excellence. This program includes a broad range of diagnostic and treatment services, and an interdisciplinary program of research that includes behavioral, brain, and genetics investigations. The program also provides training in a broad range of disciplines, and is strongly committed to advocacy at the local, national and international levels. Dr. Klin’s primary research activities focus on the social mind and the social brain, and on aspects of autism from infancy through adulthood. These studies include novel techniques such as the eye-tracking laboratories co-directed with Warren Jones, which allow researchers to see the world through the eyes of individuals with autism. These techniques are now being applied in the screening of babies at risk for autism in the Simons Laboratory of Social Neuroscience in Infancy. He is the author of over 180 publications in the field of autism and related conditions.

Education & Training

Ph.D.
University of London (1988)
Post-doctoral Fellow
Yale University School of Medicine, Clinical Child Psychology
Postdoctoral Fellow
Yale University School of Medicine, Developmental Psychopathology (1989 - 1991)
Fellow
National Center for Clinical Infant Programs-Zero to Three, Infancy and Early Childhood (1992 - 1994)

Honors & Recognition

  • Researcher of the Year, “Healthcare Heroes”
    Yale New Haven Hospital and ConnectiCare (2008)
  • Pearl H. Rieger Award for Excellence in Clinical Science
    Rush Medical Center, Chicago, IL (2007)
  • Nature, ‘Making the Paper: Ami Klin’. Nature. 2009, 459, 138 (Highlighted researcher of Nature issue # 459).
    Nature (2009)
  • Honorary Member of the Connecticut Academy of Arts & Sciences
    Connecticut Academy of Arts & Sciences (2008)
  • "Top autism paper 2008 - 2009"
    National Institutes of Health, Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee (2009)
  • ‘You Make the Difference Award’
    Connecticut Autism Spectrum Resource Center, New Haven, CT (2006)
  • “Portraits of Inspiration Award”
    The Asperger’s Association of New England (2006)

Professional Service

  • Member, INSAR (2010)
  • Member, INSAR (2009)
  • Member, NIH (2009)
  • Member, NSF (2009)
  • Member, NIH (2009)
  • Member, INSAR (2008)
  • Member, Autism Speaks (2008)
  • Member, INSAR (2007)
  • Member, Medical Research Council (UK) (2007)
  • Member, NIH (2007)
  • Member, Autism Speaks (2007)
  • Member, INSAR (2006)
  • Member, NIH (2006)
  • Member, Autism Speaks (2006)
  • Member, NIH (2005)
  • Member, NIH (2005)
  • member, The Kennedy Center Autism Program, Trumbull, CT (09/09/2008)
  • Member, Autism Europe (09/09/2008)
  • President, Autism Brazil (09/09/2006)
  • Member, Autism Speaks (09/09/2005)
  • Member, Autism Science Foundation (09/01/2009)
  • member, Molecular Autism (09/01/2009)

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