People

My research interests centre on understanding the cognitive and neural mechanisms that drive variability in the developmental trajectories of young children. Taking a multimodal approach,  we develop new behavioural, electrophysiological and psychophysiological techniques to investigate the development of core skills in early development and to link them to individual variability in genetics and environment. 

In this context, I run a number of prospective longitudinal studies of typical and atypical neurodevelopment infants (STAARS, EDEN, Phenocades) and direct EEG and eye-tracking acquisition across several large-scale European (PiP, LEAP, CANDY) and Global Health studies of children with neurodevelopmental conditions (STREAM, BRAINTOOLS). 

I am the Ethics Lead for AIMS2TRIALS, the world's largest autism grant. Finally, with collaborators we are developing new tools for online assessment of brain function in infants and young children (BONDS, TABS and SAPIENS).

I am a Postdoctoral Researcher working on the Studying Autism and ADHD Risks (STAARS), EU-AIMS, AIMS2TRIALS, EDEN and BrainTools projects. My areas of expertise include (multi)sensory processing, motor behaviours, attention and sleep in typically and atypically developing populations, including infants with genetic disorders. 

I am particularly interested in how individual differences in neural responses during early brain development associate with later behaviours and clinical profiles of neurodevelopmental disorders. To this end I use electroencephalography (EEG) and behavioural methods in my research. I am working for the BASIS, Arbaclofen Trial, Safe Passage, Braintools and LEAP study.

I started my career as a medical doctor and became interested in the way children with atypical development interact with the visual world. During my PhD, I focused on the early manifestations of social attention, gaze-following and face-orienting. I help the coordination and data collection of several multisite studies and work on the implementation of statistical analysis techniques (here is a link to my webpage). My focus is on  variability and internal correlations of attention that allow physiological levels of self-organisation. I am working on the Arbaclofen Trial, Safe Passage, Braintools, LEAP and STREAM. 

My research is focused on examining the relationship between sleep and early neurocognitive development using many different techniques, like EEG, fNIRS, eye-tracking, actigraphy and questionnaires. My latest study is looking at what happens in a baby's brain while they are sleeping and what that could tell us about their development and attention abilities. Currently working on the STAARS project.

I am interested in early brain and cognitive development during infancy and toddlerhood, particularly that which helps children who are at a disadvantage, be that for social or other reasons. I am also interested in open science and in communicating neuroscientific findings to the public. 

I am interested in social cognition in early childhood, how it changes with development, and which neural mechanisms drive this change. In my PhD, we develop a method that is able to identify which aspects of their social environment are most important for an individual infant to help them build up a social brain network (BONDS). This method combines real-time neuroimaging data analysis (EEG, fNIRS, fMRI) with novel machine learning approaches.

I worked on several longitudinal, multi-site research projects: EU-AIMS (European Autism Interventions), STAARS (Studying Autism and ADHD Risk in Siblings), a longitudinal prospective siblings project, following infants at high genetic risk of ASD and ADHD, BRIGHT (Brain Imaging for Global Health), and Inter-STAARS, an eye-tracking mediated attention training in infants at risk of ADHD, EUROSIBS, a consortium of infant sibs projects. 

 I am a Lecturer at the University of East London, and my work focuses on establishing the ability, feasibility and acceptability of using portable eye-tracking technology to identify children at risk of Autism Spectrum Disorders in low-income contexts, specifically in India. I work on the EIRA and BRAINTOOLS projects. 

I am a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, King's College London. I am currently co-ordinating the Preschool Brain Imaging and Behaviour Project (PIP), which  is a multi-site longitudinal study investigating brain development in preschoolers. I am also involved with the BRAINTOOLS, INTERSTAARS and STAARS projects at the Centre for Brain and Cognitive Development (CBCD). I have a PhD in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (King's College London) and MSc in Cognitive Neuroscience (University of York).

Dr Tessel Bazelmans started at King’s in 2015 as a PhD student on a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Training Network. She worked on a longitudinal study of infants and toddlers with a family history of Autism or ADHD (British Autism Study of Infant Siblings – BASIS). Her research focused on physiological arousal (e.g. heart rate) in relation to emerging symptoms of ASD. 

My primary research interest is to identify mechanisms underlying individual differences in the development of socialisation. During my PhD I combined genetic, epigenetic and behavioral profiles of social attention skills from infants with an older sibling with ASD who participated in the British Autism Study of Infant Siblings (BASIS). Now working at the Gel Lab.