About Us

We are a University-led research centre, combining the expertise of researchers in child development, neuroscience, and education at three world leading universities, Birkbeck University of London, UCL Institute of Education, and University College London.

If you would like to contact us, in the first instance, please direct enquiries to:

CEN (email)

CEN DIRECTORATE:

Prof Jo Van Herwegen — Director (email)

Prof Denis Mareschal – Deputy Director( email)

Dr Emma Meaburn – Deputy Director (email)

 

MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE:

Dr Liory Fern-Pollak (email)
Prof Roberto Filippi (email)
Dr Rebecca Gordon (email)
Dr Spencer Hayes (email)
Prof Natasha Kirkham (email)
Prof Mairead MacSweeney (email)
Prof Denis Mareschal (email)
Prof Chloe Marshall Emeritus (email)

Dr Emma Meaburn (email)
Dr. Laura Outhwaite (email)
Prof Kaska Porayska-Pomsta (email)
Dr. Ori Ossmy (email)

Dr Flavia Santos (email)
Dr Mojtaba Soltanlou (email)
Prof Andrew Tolmie Emeritus (email)
Prof Jo Van Herwegen (email)

 

AFFILIATE MEMBERS:

Prof Iroise Dumontheil University of Melbourne (email)

Professor Emily Farran, CoGDev Lab, School of Psychology, University of Surrey (email)

Dr. Katie Gilligan-Lee, School of Psychology, University College Dublin (email)

Dr Gemma Goldenberg, Department of Psychological Sciences, University of East London (email)

Dr Roisin Perry, School of Human and Social Sciences, University of West London (email)

Professor Sam Wass, BabyDevLab, Department of Psychological Sciences, University of East London (email)

Dr Yasin Arslan, Department of Neuroscience, Karolinska Institute (email)

Dr Astrid Bowen, Department of Education, University of York (email)

 

CEN SEMINAR ORGANISATION COMMITTEE:

Convenor: Dr. Liory Fern-Pollack, Department of Psychology, UCL Institute of Education (email)

Organising Team:
Stella Xu, Department of Psychology and Human Development, UCL Institute of Education
Mahitab Elgamal, Department of Psychology and Human Development, UCL Institute of Education
Nina Peleg, Centre for Brain and Cognitive Development, Birkbeck College, University of London
Anna Raynaud, Centre for Brain and Cognitive Development, Birkbeck College, University of London