Dieter Wolke is Professor at the Department of Psychology at the University of Warwick (Coventry, UK) and founder of the Lifespan, Health and Wellbeing Research Group. He is also associated with Warwick Medical School.  He is a member of the Steering Committee of the interfaculty Centre for Early Life.  His research centres on longitudinal investigations of developmental pathways leading to developmental psychopathology. Over the past 10 years, his research has shifted away from psychopathology to factors that lead to resilient social and emotional development and influence the coping with life tasks.  In particular, he studies groups with early experiences of adversity such as very premature infants, infants with regulatory problems (crying, feeding, sleeping), and those who are bullied in the family or school.

He received an ERC Advanced Grant in 2022 (2022-2027) and his research group is involved in several funded clinical trials and longitudinal studies. Dieter was or is PI/Co-PI of a number of studies, including the Bavarian Development Study, Epicure  RECAP preterm and Understanding Society.  Dieter is a Web of Science Highly Cited author of more than 470 peer-reviewed articles. He received honorary doctorates from the Faculty of Psychology, Ruhr University Bochum in 2014 and the Faculty of Medicine from the University of Helsinki in 2022. In 2020 he was awarded by the British Psychological Society with the "Distinguished Contribution to Developmental Psychology Award".