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Charlotte Cecil is an Associate Professor at Erasmus MC, specializing in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry/Psychology at Erasmus University Rotterdam. Her research focuses on epigenetic mechanisms linking environmental stressors (e.g., childhood maltreatment, prenatal stress) to mental and physical health outcomes. She leads multidisciplinary studies investigating how early-life experiences impact neurodevelopment and psychopathology through molecular pathways.
Key affiliations include the HappyMums consortium addressing perinatal mental health and longitudinal studies on maternal immune activation's effects on child brain development. She has supervised 4 academic works and contributed datasets on bullying's epigenetic impacts and prenatal maternal stress. Recent studies (2025) explore Mendelian randomization approaches, glucocorticoid exposure effects, and meta-analyses of comorbidity mechanisms.
Her work integrates clinical, genetic, and neuroimaging data to advance understanding of bidirectional mother-child mental health dynamics. Active in open science, she has published 88+ peer-reviewed articles across journals like Brain, Behavior, and Immunity and BMC Medicine.
