Christine Ecker

Christine Ecker is a Professor at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience at King's College London, affiliated with the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychosomatics and Psychotherapy. Her research focuses on leveraging Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) and statistical learning to identify neuroanatomical biomarkers in Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD), aiming to understand neurobiology and guide pharmacotherapies.

• Email: christine.ecker@kcl.ac.uk
• Address: Deutschordenstrasse 50, 60528 Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Research Interests include neuroimaging, autism spectrum disorders, cortical thickness analysis, intrinsic gray-matter connectivity, and genomic underpinnings of neurodevelopmental conditions. She employs advanced MRI techniques and image analysis to explore longitudinal changes in brain structure and their behavioral correlates in ASD.

Publications trend toward understanding neuroanatomical heterogeneity in ASD, with a focus on cortical thickness, connectivity, and adaptive behavior. Key methods involve longitudinal MRI, statistical learning, and genomic analysis.