Gaia Scerif

Gaia Scerif is originally from Milan, Italy, but after an International Baccalaureate at the United World College of Southern Africa (Swaziland), she decided not to settle for a while. She completed a BSc (Hons) in Psychology at the University of St. Andrews, Scotland, spending a year as a visiting student at Queen’s University, in Canada. She then read for a PhD in developmental cognitive neuroscience at the Institute of Child Health, University College London.

After a brief visiting fellowship (now developed into an ongoing collaboration) at the Sackler Institute of Developmental Psychobiology, Cornell University and Weill Medical School (New York), she held a permanent appointment as a lecturer at the School of Psychology, University of Nottingham. She has been based at St Catherine's since October 2006.

Her research focuses on the processes underlying the development of attention and the development of attentional difficulties, from their neural correlates to their outcomes on other emerging cognitive abilities. This broad aim involves combining the study of cognitive development with research on developmental disorders of attention. She therefore studies disorders with a well-defined genetic aetiology (e.g., fragile X syndrome) and complex behavioural syndromes (e.g., attention deficit / hyperactivity disorder, AD/HD).

You can read more about Gaia' research here.