Dr. Ellen Demurie
She did her PhD on reward sensitivity in children and adolescents with ADHD and/or autism. During her postdoc, she has been doing research on early social motivation in children with or at elevated likelihood for autism.
Ellen is responsible for the daily coordination of different longitudinal research projects, such as the Preschool Brain Imaging and Behaviour Project (PIP), the CANDY multiplex study and the Belgian Language in Autism Study (BeLAS). She has also coordinated the Babystudie, a longitudinal follow-up study on early social communicative development of siblings of children with autism and siblings of typically developing children.
Within these studies she focuses on early parent-child interactions, the development of helping behaviour, reward processing and the development of implicit theory of mind.