Christopher Gillberg

About Christopher Gillberg

Christopher Gillberg is Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, since the mid-1980s. He heads the Gillberg Neuropsychiatry Centre since 2010. He is also a Chief Physician at the Sahlgrenska University Hospital and one of the world’s most experienced, clinically active child- and adolescent psychiatrists, with more than 45 years of extensive clinical work in treatment of patients and families with complex psychiatric/neurodevelopmental problems.

In 1993 he was Fulbright Visiting Professor at New York University Medical School. He is also Visiting or Honorary Professor at the Universities of London, University College London (Institute of Child Health), Professor in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at St. George’s Hospital Medical School in London,  University of Glasgow, University of Edinburgh, the Pasteur Institute, and Kochi University, Japan (where he is involved with the Japan Environment and Children Study/JECS). In the past he has been a Visiting Professor at Odense, Bergen (where he started and was PI on the Bergen Child Study), and San Francisco.

Christopher Gillberg has published more than 800 peer-reviewed scientific papers (of which 778 are currently on the NIH PubMed website) on autism, Asperger syndrome, ADHD,  DCD, Tourette syndrome, intellectual disability, epilepsy, cerebral palsy, PANS/PANDAS,  depression, reactive attachment disorder, anorexia nervosa, ARFID, behavioural phenotype syndromes, Fragile X, 22q11, other rare disorders, and other areas relevant for children’s and adolescents’ mental and neurological health. His research ranges from genetics and basic neuroscience through epidemiology and clinical phenomenology to treatments/interventions and outcome. He has written 38 books, which have been published in more than a dozen languages, several of which are standard textbooks in the field of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Autism.

Professor Gillberg is an honorary member of the Swedish National Autism Society and ADHD Society ("Attention"). He is a member of the Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters. He is the recipient of many national and international awards including:

• The Fernström Award for Young Scientists (1991)
• Ingvar Prize (1995)
• Ronald McDonald Pediatric Prize (1997)
• Ågrenska Major Prize (2001)
• Ambassador of Gothenburg (2001)
• Philips Nordic Prize (2004)
• King’s Medal of Seraphim Order (2009)
• Niclas Oberg Life Watch Award (2010)
• Dahlberg Gold Medal (2010)
• The Söderberg Prize in Medicine in (2012)
• Selected by the Swedish Psychiatric Association as Sweden's most productive researcher within the discipline of Psychiatry (2013)
• Listed on Thomson Reuter’s list of the world’s most influential researchers (all fields) (2014)
• The INSAR Lifetime Achievement Award (2016)
• The Psync Award in (2016)
• Swede of the Year in Medicine (2019)
• The Arvid Carlsson Foundation Major Award  (2024)
• Hilda and Alfred Eriksson Prize (2024)

He supervises and has supervised more than 50 PhD students at the GNC and at other universities across the world (including in Norway, Denmark, Scotland, England, Faroe Islands, Japan and South Africa).

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