Dr. Michel Boivin received his Ph.D. in Psychology and undertook postdoctoral studies at the University of Denver and the University of Colorado Boulder. He is a Professor of Psychology at Université Laval, a Canada Research Chair in Child Development, and the Director of the Research Unit on Children's Psychosocial Maladjustment (GRIP). He was previously (2000–2005) a senior fellow of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR). He leads a program of research on the biological, psychological, and social components of child development, a program that is mainly anchored to population-based longitudinal studies of children, including the Quebec Longitudinal Study of Child Development and the Quebec Newborn Twin Study. He has published more than 200 articles and book chapters in leading international journals in psychology, psychiatry, and pediatrics.