Luc Lecavalier, Ph.D is an Associate Professor of Psychology and Psychiatry at the Ohio State University. He is a licensed psychologist with 15 years of clinical and research experience in the developmental disabilities field. He has a longstanding interest in behavioral and pharmacological treatments of behavior and emotional problems in people with intellectual disabilities and autism spectrum disorders.

He has co-authored more than 60 publications and in 2008 received the Early Career Awards from both the American Association of Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities and Division 33 of the American Psychological Association. He is a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders and an Associate Editor of Autism: the International Journal of Research and Practice.