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Denis Mareschal
Director CBCD
Adam Tierney
Professor
Annette Karmiloff-Smith
Chiara Bulgarelli
Senior Lecturer
Clare Elwell
Professor
Dominika Varga
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Emily Jones
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Emily Phillips
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Emma Meaburn
Reader in Human Genetics
Farah Ghosn
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Giulia Serino
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Jannath Begum Ali
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Maheen Faisal Siddiqui
Wellcome Trust Early Career Research Fellow
Marie L Smith
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Mark Johnson
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Matilde Vaghi
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Michael Thomas
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Natasha Kirkham
Professor of Developmental Psychology
Ori Ossmy
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Paola Pinti
Senior Research Laboratory Developer, ToddlerLab CAVE
Rianne Haartsen
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Tessel Bazelmans
Postdoctoral Researcher
Tommasso Ghilardi
Postdoctoral Researcher
Victoria St. Clair
Postdoctoral Researcher
Virginia Carter Leno
Wellcome Trust Award Fellow

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Birkbeck, University of London
Malet Street
London, WC1E 7HX

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