He is the Edward M. Arnett Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience in the Trinity College of Arts and Sciences at Duke University and Professor of Personality Development at King's College London's Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience.
[3] Caspi and Moffitt first met when they presented adjacent posters at a 1987 conference in St. Louis, Missouri on "Deviant Pathways from Childhood to Adulthood".
This discovery, originally reported in a 2003 study, spurred a wave of subsequent research on the potential genetic roots of various psychiatric conditions.
[14] In 2013 Caspi was awarded an honorary doctorate from Tilburg University in the Netherlands.
[15] In November 2022 Caspi was awarded the Royal Society Te Apārangi's Rutherford Medal, along with the Dunedin Study team leader Richie Poulton and team members Murray Thomson and Moffitt.