Michael Lynskey is a Professor of Addictions in the National Addictions Centre at King's College London, specialising in adolescence and young adulthood. Michael Lysnkey is also a member of the Addictions Department's Diversity & Inclusion Departmental Working Group. He has previously held appointments at the National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre, University of New South Wales and the Psychiatry Department at Washington University School of Medicine. Michael Lynskey's research has had particular emphasis on issues relating to cannabis use, including cannabis dependence, assessment of cannabis use disorders and the genetics of cannabis dependence.