Emma Everaert works as a post-doc researcher at the Institute of Education & Child Studies of Leiden UniversityShe works on the NRO project ‘How effective is training executive functions as an impulse for academic skills?’.

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Emma Everaert works as a post-doc researcher at the Institute of Education & Child Studies of Leiden University. Supervised by dr. Elise Swart and dr. Marga Sikkema-de Jong she works on the NRO project ‘How effective is training executive functions as an impulse for academic skills?’ (Dutch).

Emma's research focuses on the effect of executive function training on academic skills. In addition, her research focuses on the interaction between cognitive and (neuro)biological factors in the development of children with and without developmental problems.

Short cv

Emma Everaert obtained her bachelor's degree in Psychology (2012-2015) and a master's degree in Neuroscience and Cognition (2015-2017) at Utrecht University. In 2018, she started her PhD research at the Utrecht Institute for Language Sciences of Utrecht University and the Wilhelmina Children's Hospital of the University Medical Center Utrecht. She worked with dr. Iris Selten in the NWO-funded project 'Language impairment in the 22q11.2 deletion syndrome: a model for SLI?' supervised by prof. Frank Wijnen (UU), prof. Ellen Gerrits (UU/HU), prof. Jacob Vorstman (SickKids/University of Toronto), dr. Michiel Houben (WKZ/UMCU), and dr. Tessel Boerma (UU). She defended her dissertation titled 'Language impairment and executive functioning in children: The 22q11.2 deletion syndrome as an etiologically homogeneous model for Developmental Language Disorder' in 2023.

From 2022 she worked as a senior researcher at Royal Auris Group, an organization that provides care and education for children with speech, language and hearing problems. Starting in May 2024, Emma now works as a post-doc researcher at the Institute of Educational Sciences of Leiden University. She works under the supervision of Elise Swart and Marga Sikkema-de Jong on the NRO project 'How useful is training executive functions as an impetus for school skills?'.

Grants

• 2021 – University Medical Center Utrecht (UMCU) Strategic Network Grant (€1000)

Working days

Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday