Christopher D. Frith, professor in neuropsychology at University College, London (UCL), and deputy director of the Leopold Müller Functional Imaging Laboratory at UCL’s Institute of Neurology, is one of the pioneers in applying brain imaging to the study of mental processes. He is known especially for his work on agency, social intelligence, and understanding the minds of people with autism and schizophrenia. Educated at Christ’s College, Cambridge, he received his Ph.D. in psychology from the University of London in 1969. He began his research career at the Institute of Psychiatry, London, and, in 1975, became a scientist at Britain’s Medical Research Council. Dr. Frith was appointed to his present position in 1994. He has been a visiting fellow at All Souls College, Oxford, and a visiting professor at the University of Aarhus in Denmark and at the University of Salzburg. He has served as president of the Psychology Section of the British Association for the Advancement of Science and of the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness. A Fellow of the Royal Society, he is also a fellow of the (British) Academy of Medical Sciences and the American Association for the Advancement of Science, a Guarantor of the Brain, and a member of the Academia Europaea. Dr. Frith is the recipient of the Kenneth Craik Award given by St. John’s College, Cambridge, the Robert Sommer Award given by Justus Liebig-Universität in Giessen, Germany, and the Burghölzli Award of the University of Zürich. He has been awarded honorary degrees by Paris-Lodron University in Salzburg and the University of York. He currently serves on the editorial boards of Science, the Journal of Cognitive Neuropsychiatry, Neuroimage, and Psychological Medicine. The author of some 335 papers published in scientific journals, he is the co-editor of two books, including, most recently, (with D. W. Wolpert) The Neuroscience of Social Interaction: Decoding, Imitating and Influencing the Actions of Others (2004), and the co-author of four books, among them (with E. C. Johnstone) Schizophrenia: A Very Short Introduction (2003). His latest book, Making up the Mind: How the Brain Creates our Mental World, was published last month by Blackwell.