Eveline Crone

Eveline Crone is a Professor of Neurocognitive Developmental Psychology at Leiden University (2009–present) and holds a special appointment as Professor of Neurocognitive and Affective Adolescent Development at the University of Amsterdam (2009–present). She chairs Leiden's Department of Developmental Psychology and founded the Brain and Development Laboratory.

• Education: Master's (1999) and PhD (2003) from University of Amsterdam
• Postdoctoral: University of California, Davis (2003–2005)

Her research focuses on adolescent brain development, particularly:

• Cognitive control and decision-making mechanisms
• Neurocognitive and affective development
• Risk-taking and social perspective-taking
• Functional neuroimaging of school-aged children and adolescents

Publications from 2004–2012 span neuroscience, developmental psychology, and cognitive science, with sub-fields including longitudinal neuroimaging, reward sensitivity, fairness processing, and social cognition in adolescence.

Scientific honors include:

• Membership in the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (2013)
• ERC Starting Grant (2010)
• National awards (Huibregtsen, Heymans, Ruigrok)
• Early Career Awards (2011)

She has secured over €5 million in competitive grants (NWO, ERC, ESF) and authored two popular science books on adolescent brain development, including Het sociale brein van de puber (2012) and Het puberende brein (2008). Her lab combines academic research with public outreach via media appearances and lectures.