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The Team
DR DEAN D'SOUZA
Principal Investigator
Dean is a lecturer in the Department of Psychology at City, University of London. He investigates mechanisms of developmental change and traces the developmental trajectories of higher-level abilities such as language back to their basic-level origins in infancy, in typical and atypical populations.
DR HANA D'SOUZA
Collaborator
Hana currently holds the Beatrice Mary Dale Research Fellowship in Psychology at Newnham College, University of Cambridge. She is interested in the development of attention and motor abilities, and how these interact over developmental time and constrain other domains in typically and atypically developing children. As part of the London Down Syndrome (LonDownS) Consortium, she has been investigating individual differences and interactions between various domains and levels of description across development in infants and toddlers with Down syndrome.
DR FINTAN NAGLE
Collaborator
Fintan is a cognitive and vision scientist at Imperial College London, with extensive experience with software engineering and machine learning. He studied on the excellent UCL CoMPLEX MRes PhD programme, which allowed him to conduct four bioinformatics lab rotations followed by a three-year PhD. His doctoral work investigated, for the first time, the mechanisms of temporal visual search on dynamic scenes. Fintan is helping the ELAN lab to measure the complexity of the infants' everyday visual experiences.
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SHREYA JANA
Research Assistant
Shreya is currently running our large-scale HOME Bilingual project. She was drawn to this project due to her own multilingual background and a keen interest in developmental psychology. She enjoys working with children and is presently setting up the study protocol.
HARRISON WILSON
Placement Student
Harrison is a psychology undergraduate placement student from Cardiff University. He is particularly interested in language acquisition and the remarkable ability infants have to adapt to their environment. He was drawn to the project due to its exciting use of cutting-edge research practices. His responsibilities include assisting with participant recruitment, data collection and processing, and managing social media and outreach communications.
MARCO CANGINI
PhD Student
Marco received his MSc in Language Sciences at University College London and is currently undertaking a PhD at Cardiff University. His current research at the ELAN Lab aims to advance our understanding of infant adaptations to bilingual environments. He is particularly interested in measuring the complexity of infants’ natural language environment and assessing its impact on early development, by combining multilevel naturalistic and experimental data.
SUSIE MAYER
Placement Student
Susie is a third-year BSc psychology undergraduate at Cardiff University undertaking her placement in the ELAN lab. Her previous experiences working with children have deepened her understanding of child behaviour, and she is eager to apply this knowledge in a psychological research setting. Her bilingualism, love for working with children, and strong passion for developmental psychology have sparked her interest in this research placement.
LIBBY
Honorary Scientist
Libby is an ‘honorary scientist’ at the ELAN lab. She visited us 7 years ago with her brother to help with our research. Libby is currently working on a school project on scientists and sent us this picture!
Past Members
GALIA PALMER
Volunteer
Galia is an international undergraduate psychology student at City, University of London. Originally from Florida, USA, she is especially interested in the interaction between neuroscience and human behavior. Galia is also an event, portrait, and family photographer.
STEFANIA CANGEMI
Erasmus Trainee
Stefania is a postgraduate student at the University of Verona in Italy. In collaboration with Hana D'Souza at the University of Cambridge, Stefania is working on observational data we collected from toddlers with Down syndrome, fragile X syndrome, and Williams syndrome. Our aim is to understand more about how toddlers with neurodevelopmental disorders and their parents interact in naturalistic settings.
DR DAN BRADY
Collaborator
Dan is a Research Software Engineer in the Department of Computer Science, University of Sheffield. He has experience of writing research software and analysis pipelines using R, Python, and Julia, and has been developing scripts for one of our projects. He is also a keen advocate of open and reproducible research practices.
JULIA JANOSCHKA
Intern
"I am a Psychology student from Germany and determined by my curiosity and passion for Psychology to be part of a project outside my comfort zone. Doing my Bachelor's degree in Psychology provides me an expanded base of knowledge in various fields of this science, and most important for this project: knowledge in Developmental and Cognitive Psychology."