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Tessel Bazelmans

Postdoctoral Researcher

 

Centre for Brain and Cognitive Development (CBCD)
School of Psychology
Birkbeck College
Malet Street
London WC1E 7HX

 

E-mail: tessel.bazelmans at bbk dot ac dot uk 

 

Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=f1Nuu74AAAAJ&hl=en

Orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9623-0473

Research Gate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Tessel-Bazelmans

 

Research interests

I am interested in understanding early neurotypical and neurodiverse development, with a focus on attention, sensory processing, and temperament. My approach combines behavioural observations with (neuro)physiological measures to gain a comprehensive understanding of these areas.

I also believe in the importance of sharing research with the public, especially parents. I do this primarily through my work with BabyBrains (www.babybrains.info), where I aim to make scientific findings accessible to parents and caregivers.

Currently, I am a postdoctoral researcher on the SENSE project, a collaboration between the CBCD and the Medawar Pain and Somatosensory Labs at UCL and UCL Hospital. Our team studies the development of somatosensation in term and pre-term infants, exploring how variations in sensory processing can impact later development and contribute to neurodiversity in toddlers.

Before joining Birkbeck, I completed my PhD at King’s College London on the British Autism Study of Infant Siblings (BASIS) - Studying Autism and ADHD Risks (STAARS), looking at the early development of autism and ADHD in a sample of infants/toddlers with a family-history of neurodevelopmental conditions. I continued working with the team as a Postdoc, leading the mid-childhood follow-up of these same families in a study called SuperSTAARS.

 

Research positions    

2024 – Current: Postdoctoral Researcher on SENSE (Birkbeck, University of London) working with Prof. Emily J.H. Jones (Birkbeck, University of London), Prof. Lorenzo Fabrizi (University College London) and Dr. Judith Meek (University College London Hospital)

2019 – 2024: Postdoctoral Researcher on SuperSTAARS (King’s College London) working with Prof. Tony Charman (King’s College London) and Prof. Emily J.H. Jones (Birkbeck)

2015 – 2019: Early Stage Career Researcher (PhD student) on STAARS (King’s College London) supervised by Prof. Tony Charman (King’s College London) and Prof. Emily J.H. Jones (Birkbeck). My PhD was part of the BRAINVIEW European Training Network, supported by a grant from the Marie Skłodowska-Curie action - Horizon 2020 Program under grant agreement 642996.

 

Selected Publications

  • Bazelmans, T., et al. (2024). Mid-childhood autism sibling recurrence in infants with a family history of autism. Autism Research, 1–14. https://doi.org/10.1002/aur.3182
  • Bazelmans, T., et al. (2024). Rates of family history of autism and ADHD varies with recruitment approach and socio-economic status. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 42(2), 117-132. doi:10.1111/bjdp.12469.
  • Charman, T., Pasco, G., Hendry, A., Bazelmans, T., (...)., & Jones, E. J. H. (2023). Three year outcomes in infants with a family history of autism and/or attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. JCPP Advances, 3(4), e12189. https://doi.org/10.1002/jcv2.12189
  • Bazelmans, T., et al. (2021). Identifying phenotypic and physiological subgroups of preschoolers with autism spectrum disorder. Psychological Medicine, 1-11. doi:10.1017/S0033291721003172.
  • Goodwin A, Hendry A, Mason L, Bazelmans T, (...) & Johnson MH. (2021). Behavioural Measures of Infant Activity but Not Attention Associate with Later Preschool ADHD Traits. Brain Sciences, 11(5). https://doi.org/10.3390/brainsci11050524
  • Bazelmans, T., et al. (2019). Heart rate mean and variability as a biomarker for phenotypic variation inpreschoolers with autism spectrum disorder. Autism Research, 1t2(1), 39-52. doi:10.1002/aur.1982.

 

Selected talks / poster presentations

  • A, Lautarescu, S. Heraty, T. Bazelmans, […] Autistic Women’s Perinatal Experiences and Priorities for Future Research. INSAR 2024
  • T.  Bazelmans, E. Shephard, R. Arthur, B. Milosavljevic, ., M. Johnson, E. Jones, T. Charman, & The BASIS Team Infant effortful control predicts childhood emotion dysregulation in autism-enriched cohort. INSAR 2022
  • T. Bazelmans, R. Arthur, M. H. Johnson, E. Jones, T. Charman & The BASIS Team Differences in temperament during early childhood in children at familial risk for autism with low versus high parent reported autism, ADHD and anxiety symptoms. INSAR 2021
  • T. Bazelmans, E. Jones, T. Charman and S.J. Webb. Identifying clusters of preschoolers with autism based on physiological responses to social and non-social videos and their relation to phenotypic profiles. INSAR 2020
  • T. Bazelmans, T. Charman, E. Jones and M. H. Johnson, the BASIS team, Physiological responses to the emotions of others in infants at elevated likelihood for ASD. Autism Europe 2019
  • T. Bazelmans. The role of physiological arousal during the emergence of ASD symptomatology - From infancy to pre-school. BASIS Annual Meeting 2019
  • T. Bazelmans. Measuring Physiology, BASIS Family Expo, 2019
  • T. Bazelmans. (Super)STAARS - ADHD in ASD cohort, SAPIENS 2021
  • T. Bazelmans, S. Greve, T. Charman, E. Jones and M. H. Johnson, Studying Heart Rate Differences during Social Stimuli in Infants at Risk for ASD and ADHD. INSAR 2017
  • T. Bazelmans, Measuring the physiological arousal of infants at risk for ASD in response to emotion videos. European Society for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry 2017
  • T. Bazelmans, T. Charman, E. Jones and M. H. Johnson, Studying Heart Rate Differences during Social Stimuli in Infants at Risk for ASD and ADHD. British Psychological Society 2016
  • Invited Talks: University of East London, Babylab; Oxford University, Experimental Psychology; University of Leiden, Child and Education Studies.