 Patricia J. Bauer is the Asa Griggs-Candler Professor of Psychology at Emory University in the United States. Professor Bauer is a world-class researcher who has made outstanding contributions to the field of infant and childhood memory development. Professor Bauer's connection with Ohus University is a long-standing one. Her support helped make the Center on Autobiographical Memory Research a reality and she has continued to work closely with AU researchers and students to advance research on autobiographical memory development. My most important contributions to the field are in the study of autobiographical or personal memory. These are memories that are very significant to us as individuals. They're the memories of the high points and low points of our lives and my research has been focused on the development of autobiographical memory. That is how it is that over the course of the infancy, preschool and school years, children come to be able to construct and convey and narrate about the personal experiences of their lives. The work that my colleagues and I have been doing makes clear that even very young children have memories. They're simple memories. They're not the elaborate memories that you and I as adults have about our experiences but nevertheless very young children do have memories from early in life and this information has allowed us then to refine our theories and our explanations of why we as adults don't have memories from early in life. My relationship with Ohus University began in 2010 when the Center on Autobiographical Memory Research was established by the Danish National Research Foundation as a Center of Excellence. The Center is dedicated to the study of autobiographical memory, how it develops and how it changes over the course of our lives. Professor Bauer has supported two major and successful grant applications, one resulting in a DNF Center of Excellence on Autobiographical Memory Research. Her support has been very concrete and very substantial. She has visited us several times both for longer and shorter visits and she has hosted Ohus researchers at her laboratory at Emory University and generously shared her impressive knowledge and experience regarding her memory development in early childhood and how to study it scientifically.