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Jonna Kuntsi is Professor of Developmental Disorders and Neuropsychiatry at the Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry (SGDP) Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience. She first joined the Centre as a Lecturer, following training (BSc, MSc, PhD) and positions at University College London and the Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children. Her research focuses on attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and other conditions and traits that often co-occur with ADHD.

A major focus currently is the ADHD Remote Technology (ART) research programme, for which Jonna and team have received over £4 million funding from the UK Medical Research Council and European Commission for projects on a range of topics (e.g. ART-transition [include link to: https://www.kcl.ac.uk/research/art-transition] and ART-CARMA).

She is Co-Chair of EUNETHYDIS - the European Network for ADHD – and a member of the associated European ADHD Guideline Group (EAGG). Jonna is on the steering committee/Principal Investigator in several other international research networks, including the International Multi-centre Persistent ADHD Collaboration ‘IMpACT’, the ECNP ADHD across the Lifespan Network and the ECNP Digital Health Applied to the Clinical Research of Brain Disorders Network. She actively collaborates with patient support organisations, including ADHD Europe and the UK ADHD Information and Support Service (ADDISS), and with SMEs, such as Empatica and The Hyve.

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