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Prof. Chantal Kemner is a Professor of Biological Developmental Psychology at Utrecht University's Faculty of Social and Behavioral Sciences, specializing in developmental psychopathology. She leads the YOUth cohort study and serves as scientific director of the Consortium Individual Development (CID), a top Dutch research group funded by a prestigious €28M NWO Gravitation grant (2012–2023). Her work focuses on understanding child development differences, particularly in the first 1001 days of life, autism, visual perception, and brain-behavior dynamics.
Education: PhD in Biological Psychology from Utrecht University (1992), followed by postdoctoral roles at UMC Utrecht's Child Psychiatry department. Previously held part-time professorships at Maastricht University (2003–2008) and UMC Utrecht (2013–2021).
Research Themes: Dynamics of Youth (DoY), data science in cohort studies, and longitudinal research methodologies. Key projects include the YOUth study and the CID's investigation into individual developmental differences.
Achievements: Recipient of the Dutch Data Prize (2022), Vidi and Vici grants, and leadership in multidisciplinary child development research. Her work bridges neuroscience, psychology, and data science to address child health and developmental challenges.
Advisory & Grants: Directed CID's Gravitation-funded initiative. Supervised numerous research projects, including those on autism neurobiology, numerical cognition, and tinnitus-attention links. Active in interdisciplinary teams and data infrastructure initiatives like LS - Data Science and Cohorts.
Labs/Teams: Principal Investigator of YOUth, leader of CID, and collaborator in European autism intervention studies (e.g., European Autism Interventions).
