Simon Baron-Cohen

Sir Simon Philip Baron-Cohen is a British clinical psychologist and professor of developmental psychopathology at the University of Cambridge. He is the director of the university's Autism Research Centre and a Fellow of Trinity College. Baron-Cohen has worked in autism research for over 40 years, starting in 1982. In 1985, Baron-Cohen formulated mindblindness theory of autism, the evidence for which he collated and published in 1995.