Exploration question
A strong parent-child bond is like a social vaccine that gives lifelong resilience. What will it take for every parent to understand and prioritise this?
Victoria is Full Professor of Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience at NTU Singapore and Aff A/Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Cambridge, UK. She is Founding Director of the Early Mental Potential and Wellbeing Research (EMPOWER) at NTU which is developing AI+neuroscience-based solutions for early developmental screening and intervention. Her research examines the neural basis of the parent-offspring “social interactome” and she is a pioneer in the use of dyadic-EEG to measure brain-to-brain synchrony.
Her work has received recognition through the FABBS Early Career Impact Award, Robert J. Glushko Prize and the Nanyang Research Award. Through her research labs based in Cambridge University and Singapore, she has mentored over 100 early career researchers and research students, hailing from 16 different countries. She has built strategic partnerships across US, Europe, Asia, South America and Africa through international collaborative research programmes worth over SGD$50M (USD$35M), holding over SGD$20M (USD$15M) as Principal Investigator.
