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Saara Nolvi is a Senior Researcher and Docent (Adjunct Professor) in the Department of Psychology and Speech-Language Pathology at the University of Turku, Faculty of Social Sciences. She is a key researcher in the FinnBrain Birth Cohort Study and the Academy of Finland-funded Centre of Excellence for Learning Dynamics and Intervention (InterLearn), focusing on early environmental influences on child development.
Her research expertise includes:
- Early life stress (prenatal, postnatal)
- Child self-regulation and executive functioning
- Socioemotional and cognitive development
- Neural mechanisms (MRI, fMRI, DTI) and biological pathways (e.g., cortisol, gut microbiota)
- Parent-child interaction and maternal mental health
- Structural equation modelling and longitudinal data analysis
Her recent publications (2024–2025) demonstrate a strong focus on longitudinal birth cohort research, examining how prenatal and postnatal stress, maternal mental health, parenting quality, and biological factors (brain structure, gut microbiota) influence infant and child socioemotional, cognitive, and communicative development. She frequently employs eye-tracking, neuroimaging, and biomarker analysis in large datasets like FinnBrain.
She teaches developmental psychology and has extensive teaching experience across educational levels.
Saara Nolvi actively supervises and collaborates within interdisciplinary research teams, contributing to projects on maternal mentalization, pandemic impacts on families, vaccination attitudes, and intergenerational transmission of stress effects.
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