Michael Pluess Ph.D.

Michael Pluess, Ph.D., is a professor of psychology at the University of Surrey, UK. Initially trained in chemistry and music, he spent several years working in the lab and on stage before pursuing his interests in psychology. Pluess obtained his Ph.D. in Developmental Psychology in 2009 from the University of Basel, Switzerland. During his doctoral studies, he was based at the Institute for the Study of Children, Families, and Social Issues at the Birkbeck University of London. He conducted post-doctoral work in London at the Birkbeck University of London and the University of East London as well as at the University of California, Davis. In 2012, he was awarded an Excellence Fellowship at the Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London, where he worked as a lecturer in developmental psychology at the MRC Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre before moving to Queen Mary University of London. In 2023, he joined the School of Psychology at the University of Surrey