Emma Duerden, PhD (Supervisor)
Applied Psychology, Education, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada
Emma Duerden, PhD is a Canada Research Chair in Neuroscience and Learning Disorders. She is the scientific lead of the Developing Brain research program. She is an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Education at Western University. She is also a member of the graduate program in Biomedical Engineering. She did her undergraduate degree in Psychology at McGill University. She completed her Master’s degree in Neuroscience at the Montreal Neurological Institute. Dr. Duerden then trained at University of Montreal for her PhD in Neuroscience. Her postdoctoral fellowship was funded through the Autism Research Training (ART) program. She then later worked as a Research Associate & Senior Research Associate at the Hospital for Sick Children in the Division of Neurology.
Her research program seeks to identify prediction and stratification biomarkers that underlie variations in cognitive functioning in children who were born critically-ill and in children with neurodevelopmental disorders. The goal is to use biomarkers to predict responses to evidence-based behavioural treatment in infants and children with neurodevelopmental disorders. She uses a broad approach to the study of behavioural and physiological biomarkers including cognitive assessments, endocrine testing, epigenetics and advanced neuroimaging. She has expertise in a wide array of cross-sectional, longitudinal- and predicative analytic data methods relevant to research with typically developing children and complex clinical populations.
