President-Elect 1 Year (2023), President 2 Years (2024-2025)
Koraly Pérez-Edgar, PhD
McCourtney Professor of Child Studies
Professor of Psychology
Associate Director, Social Science Research Institute
Incoming Editor-in-Chief, Developmental Psychology
Child Study Center
The Pennsylvania State University
University Park USA
Pronouns: she/her/ella
Background: Dr. Pérez-Edgar is the McCourtney Professor of Child Studies and a member of the Developmental Psychology program at Penn State. Her work focuses on temperamental influences on socioemotional development, with an emphasis on biological correlates and the role of attention patterns. She has been an active participant in the ISDP conference for many years. In support of the field in general, she is currently a board member for the International Congress of Infant Studies (ICIS) and is the incoming Editor-in-Chief at Developmental Psychology.
Secretary-Elect for 1-Year, Secretary for 3-Years
Dr. Maya Opendak
Assistant Professor
Kennedy Krieger Institute and Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Baltimore, United States
https://www.kennedykrieger.org/patient-care/faculty-staff/maya-opendak-phd
I am Assistant Professor in the Department of Neuroscience at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and Kennedy Krieger Institute. In line with the goals of ISDP, research in my lab focuses on the developmental neurobiology of social behavior and the impact of experience, such as trauma, on infant circuits supporting complex behavior. If elected Secretary-Elect and future Secretary, I am committed to working with ISDP leadership and members to support the Society’s executive and programmatic goals.
Board Member, 3 Year Term
Julie Campbell, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Psychology
Illinois State University
Julie Campbell is an Associate Professor in the developmental and quantitative areas of the psychology department at Illinois State University. She received her Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina Greensboro under the supervision of George Michel in 2015 and completed a pre-doctoral fellowship at the Center for Developmental Science at UNC-Chapel Hill in 2014. She teaches courses in infant, child, and adolescent development, as well as experimental research methods. Her research addresses developmental issues in hemispheric specialization, lateralization, handedness, motor development, and quantitative methods.
Julie’s involvement in ISDP began when she attended her first meeting as a graduate student in 2007. She served as a Student Representative from 2012 to 2014. In 2019, she was ISDP’s Conference Coordinator Elect and has served as the Conference Coordinator since 2020. In 2021, she was awarded ISDP’s Distinguished Service Award. Julie is passionate about the Society’s purpose to inspire research on developmental processes and enjoys being involved in the work required to achieve this goal.
Student Member Representative, 2 Year Term
Ian F. Smith
University of Delaware
Newark, United States
I am a current third-year PhD student in the Interdisciplinary Neuroscience Graduate Program at the University of Delaware and work with Drs. Tania Roth and Anna Klintsova. I currently work with my advisors and peers to study how prenatal alcohol exposure affects neuroplastic and epigenetic mechanisms, as well as potential interventions that might mitigate negative outcomes to brain circuitry and myelination in a rodent model of fetal alcohol spectrum disorders. This year will mark my first time attending an ISDP annual meeting, and I am very excited to meet and interact with the community that makes up the International Society for Developmental Psychobiology. I am eager to engage with fellow trainees and help bolster their professional and scientific growth through the Student Member Representative role in the upcoming years.
Student Member Representative, 2 Year Term
Anna Vannucci, MS
Graduate Student
Columbia University
Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Department of Psychology
Developmental Affective Neuroscience Laboratory
New York, USA
https://danlab.psychology.columbia.edu
Anna Vannucci is a 4th-year Ph.D. student in Psychology at Columbia University and works with Dr. Nim Tottenham in the Developmental Affective Neuroscience Laboratory. Anna’s research investigates how early parental care sculpts human brain development and affective behaviors across multiple timescales (from seconds to years), with a particular interest in affective semantic memory systems. Anna loves ISDP for highlighting translational research on biobehavioral development across species and for fostering a warm, inviting space for trainees. Outside of research, Anna is deeply committed to mentoring the next generation of developmental scientists. Coming from a low-income background and navigating life with a disability, Anna aims to be an advocate for trainees from diverse backgrounds who are underrepresented in the academy by creating inclusive spaces in the lab, classroom, and broader field.
Program Director-elect, 1 Year, Program Director, 3 Year Term
Marion I. van den Heuvel, PhD
Tilburg University
Wijboschstraat 90
Tilburg, Netherlands
@MvdnHeuvel
http://marionvandenheuvel.com
https://www.tilburguniversity.edu/staff/m-i-vdnheuvel
Dr. Marion van den Heuvel is a tenured Assistant Professor at the Department of Cognitive Neuropsychology at Tilburg University, The Netherlands. She obtained her Bachelor in Health Sciences in 2009 at Maastricht University, The Netherlands, with a major in Mental Health Sciences. In 2012 she graduated cum laude from the Research Master in Social and Behavioral Sciences at Tilburg University, The Netherlands. During her graduate work, Marion examined the effects of maternal anxiety and mindfulness during pregnancy on the neurocognitive functioning in infants and young children. Marion was then awarded a prestigious postdoctoral fellowship from Wayne State University to work with Dr. Moriah Thomason at the Perinatology Research Branch of NICHD/NIH. During her postdoc she continued her research in the field of developmental programming and expanded her knowledge to fetal fMRI and sleep research. In her current work she combines expertise gained throughout her career to understand how early life influences can guide brain development from the early beginning.
In 2019, Marion received a Veni grant from NWO (Dutch Research Foundation) to investigate brain-to-brain connectivity in mother-infant dyads. In 2020, she received the Sara van Dam Project Grant from the Dutch Royal Acadamy of Sciences to extend her research on mother-infant neural synchrony to an Israeli cohort of war-exposed mothers. In 2021, Marion was nominated for New Scientist Research Talent.
https://www.tilburguniversity.edu/staff/m-i-vdnheuvel
Dr. Marion van den Heuvel is a tenured Assistant Professor at the Department of Cognitive Neuropsychology at Tilburg University, The Netherlands. She obtained her Bachelor in Health Sciences in 2009 at Maastricht University, The Netherlands, with a major in Mental Health Sciences. In 2012 she graduated cum laude from the Research Master in Social and Behavioral Sciences at Tilburg University, The Netherlands. During her graduate work, Marion examined the effects of maternal anxiety and mindfulness during pregnancy on the neurocognitive functioning in infants and young children. Marion was then awarded a prestigious postdoctoral fellowship from Wayne State University to work with Dr. Moriah Thomason at the Perinatology Research Branch of NICHD/NIH. During her postdoc she continued her research in the field of developmental programming and expanded her knowledge to fetal fMRI and sleep research. In her current work she combines expertise gained throughout her career to understand how early life influences can guide brain development from the early beginning.
In 2019, Marion received a Veni grant from NWO (Dutch Research Foundation) to investigate brain-to-brain connectivity in mother-infant dyads. In 2020, she received the Sara van Dam Project Grant from the Dutch Royal Acadamy of Sciences to extend her research on mother-infant neural synchrony to an Israeli cohort of war-exposed mothers. In 2021, Marion was nominated for New Scientist Research Talent.