I am a professor in Educational Neuroscience at Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences at University of Leuven, Belgium. My primary interest is in understanding individual differences in children's mathematical skills: why are some children good at math and why do others experience (life-long) difficulties in this basic academic competency. My team and I use both behavioral and brain imaging methods to understand how children develop arithmetical skills and what neurocognitive mechanisms underlie this typical and atypical numerical development. I am teaching courses on educational neuroscience, research methods and scientific literacy.
I serve as an associate editor of the peer-reviewed journals Journal of Experimental Child Psychology and Psychologica Belgica as well as editorial board member of Developmental Science and Journal of Educational Psychology. I am the president of the International Mind Brain and Education Society.
In 2013 I received the Erik De Corte Early Career Award of the European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction (EARLI) and in 2014 I was awarded the Early Career Award of the International Mind Brain and Education Society (IMBES). In 2016, I was elected as an Academic Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science and in 2018 I was adwarded the Laureate of the Royal Flemish Academy for Sciences and Arts.
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