Louise Arseneault is Professor of Developmental Psychology at King’s College London. Her research focuses on the consequences of violence over the life course and the impact of social relationships including social support, loneliness and social isolation on mental health. She has worked on well-known longitudinal cohorts such as the Montreal Longitudinal Cohorts, the Dunedin Multidisciplinary Health and Development Study, the Environmental Risk (E-Risk) Longitudinal Twin Study and the National Child Development Survey (NCDS).

For 5 years, she was the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) Mental Health Leadership Fellow during which she provided intellectual leadership and strategic advice in the priority area of mental health in the UK.

Louise currently leads projects that aim to facilitate the discoverability of longitudinal data in the UK and worldwide, primarily through two online platforms:
· The Catalogue of Mental Health Measures
· The Atlas of Longitudinal Datasets