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- Professor in Infant and Child Development
- Developmental Neurosciences Dept
- UCL GOS Institute of Child Health
- Faculty of Pop Health Sciences
Michelle de Haan is Professor in Infant and Child Development at the UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of
Child Health and Honorary Neuropsychologist at Great Ormond Street Hospital for
Children NHS Trust. She is Head of Section forCognitive Neuroscience and Neuropsychiatry. Previously, Michelle
studied Child Psychology and Neuroscience at the University of Minnesota and
graduated with her PhD in 1996.
Michelle’s research applies neuroimaging and
neuropsychological methods to examine the brain underpinnings of typical and
atypical cognitive and social development.
This includes work with children with infant-onset epilepsy, sickle-cell
disease, congenital visual impairment, and those born preterm.
Michelle is Director of UCL’s MSc in Clinical and
Applied Paediatric Neuropsychology and UCL's MSc in Infancy and Early Childhood Development. She is co-Editor in Chief of the journal
Developmental Science (https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/14677687). Her work has been
featured in radio and television programmes including The Human Body, The Human Face and Child of our Time, she was the expert psychologist for the


Keywords: Amnesia, Amygdala, Autism spectrum disorders, Behaviour, Brain imaging, Brain injury, Cognitive, Development, EEG, Temporal lobes, Emotion, Social Neuroscience, Epilepsy, Social cognition, Hippocampus, Neuropsychology, Memory, Executive function, ERP, Frontal Lobes
Conditions: Amnesic syndromes, Epilepsy, Sickle Cell Disease, Congenital Visual Impairment, Premature Birth
Methods: Behavioural analysis, Cross-sectional and cohort studies, Electroencephalography (EEG), Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), Neuropsychological testing
Director, MSc Clinical and Applied Paediatric Neuropsychology at UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health (https://www.ucl.ac.uk/child-health/study/postgraduate-taught-programmes/paediatric-neuropsychology)
Director, MSc Infancy and Early Childhood Development at UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health (https://www.ucl.ac.uk/child-health/study/postgraduate-taught-programmes/infancy-and-early-childhood-development)
01-OCT-2018 | Professor | Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health | UCL, United Kingdom |
01-SEP-2007 | Reader | Institute of Child Health | UCL, United Kingdom |
01-SEP-2003 – 31-AUG-2007 | Senior Lecturer | Institute of Child Health | UCL, United Kingdom |
01-APR-1999 – 31-AUG-2003 | Lecturer | Institute of Child Health | UCL, United Kingdom |
01-SEP-1996 – 30-MAR-1999 | Research Scientist | MRC Cognitive Development Unit | , United Kingdom |
1996 | Doctor of Philosophy | University of Minnesota | |
1991 | Bachelor of Arts | McMaster University |