Stephanie Mizrahi
Hi, during my study in Developmental Psychopathology, I worked as a research assistant in several studies at the University of Amsterdam and UvA Minds. After obtaining my master’s degree in 2010, I did not want to stop doing research and working with families, so I started working as a research assistant at the Research Institute of Child Development and Education department of the University of Amsterdam. At first, I worked within the longitudinal project of prof. dr Susan Bögels […]
Christopher Riddell
I am a PhD candidate in the Cognitive Psychology Unit at Leiden University, supervised by Prof. Mariska Kret and Dr. Milica Nikolic. Broadly, my PhD focussed on children’s socioemotional development. I examine how children express their own and understand others’ emotions. In particular, I investigate whether increases in these emotional competencies across the lifespan are […]
Ruya Akdag
I received my bachelor’s degree in psychology in 2017 from Radboud University Nijmegen. During my bachelor’s, I developed my interest in social neuroscience, especially how digital advancements can solve mental health problems. I further translated this interest by starting a research master in cognitive neuroscience at Leiden University. For my master thesis at the CoPAN lab […]
Julia Folz
Research interests My research focuses on the resonance of the social environment, and particularly others’ emotions, in humans. In interactions with others, a mutual understanding is more easily achieved if we “tune in” to each other. One of my interests is to investigate to what extent an attunement in bodily states contributes to understanding others […]
Milica Nikolic
I am an assistant professor of developmental psychopathology at the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands and the founder of the Becoming Social Research Center. My research interests revolve around child social and emotional development and the role parents play in this process. For example, I investigate infants’ and young children’s development of socio-cognitive capacities […]
