Robert F. Krueger

Robert F. Krueger
Alma materUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison
Known forPsychopathology
Awards1996 Tanaka Award from the Association for Research in Personality, 2005 Distinguished Scientific Award for an Early Career Contribution to Psychology from the American Psychological Association
Scientific career
FieldsPsychology
InstitutionsUniversity of Minnesota
ThesisPersonality Traits and Mental Disorders: Studies of Structures and Their Inter-relations Across Nations, Genders, Races, Assessment Instruments, Time Periods, and Reporters (1996)
Doctoral advisorTerrie Moffitt

Robert Frank Krueger is Hathaway Distinguished Professor of Clinical Psychology and Distinguished McKnight University Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Minnesota. He is known for his research on personality psychology, clinical psychology, quantitative psychology, developmental psychology, personality disorders, behavioral genetics, and psychopathology. He is the co-editor-in-chief of the Journal of Personality Disorders.

According to Krueger, the goal of his work is to "reduce the burden these problems place on society by working to understand why some people experience psychopathology, while others remain resilient."

Krueger received the American Psychological Association's Award for Distinguished Scientific Early Career Contributions to Psychology in 2005. Krueger was part of the DSM-5 Personality and Personality Disorders Work Group, which developed the Alternative DSM-5 Model for Personality Disorders. He is also one of the highest cited researchers according to the Web of Science.

Robert attended the University of Wisconsin-Madison and completed his clinical internship at Brown University.