Team

Dr Delia Fuhrmann

Principal Investigator

Delia is Reader in Psychometrics of Developmental Psychology at King’s College London and leads the LIFE-MAP Lab. Her research has been funded by the Economic and Social Research Council and UK Research and Innovation. Prior to joining King’s, she was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Cambridge. She completed her PhD in Cognitive Neuroscience at the University College London and her BSc Hons Psychology at the University of St Andrews.

Dr Kathryn Bates

Research Fellow

Kathryn is a Research Fellow in the lab and a Co-Investigator on the UKRI-funded UNITE Project. Kathryn previously worked on the SDA-SPA Project in the lab. Kathryn also produces The Science or Fiction Podcast and regularly writes for parents, teachers and young people on educational platforms. Kathryn completed her PhD in Psychology at University College London. You can find out more about her work on her personal website.

Ms Chloe Carrick

PhD Student

Chloe is an MRC-DTP funded PhD student in the lab. She is interested in environmental predictors and mental health outcomes of individual variability in the pace of adolescent brain maturation. Her research will use nonlinear modelling approaches and emerging developmental samples such as ABCD. Chloe previously worked as a Research Assistant at the Wellcome Centre for Human Neuroimaging at UCL. She also holds a Research Master degree in Cognitive and Clinical Neuroscience from Maastricht University.

Ms Lanting Zhang

PhD Student

Lanting is a PhD Candidate at KCL, Funded by LISS DTP. Her research investigates how loneliness develops in late adolescence, with a particular focus on adolescent adversity and social support, using longitudinal and data-driven approaches. Prior to her PhD, she worked as a Research Assistant at the University of Oxford. She holds an MRes in Developmental Neuroscience and Psychopathology from University College London.

Ms Effat Salehi Far

KCL-TU PhD Student

Effat is a PhD student at TU Dresden and King’s College London, with a background in engineering and neuroscience. Her research explores the relationship between brain alterations and long-term illness trajectories in psychiatric disorders, with a particular focus on affective disorders. Her interests span clinical, cognitive, and computational neuroscience and computational psychiatry, with an emphasis on multimodal approaches to understanding brain–behavior dynamics.

Ms Jeanette Lim

KCL-NUS PhD Student

Jeanette is a PhD student at the National University of Singapore (NUS) and King’s College London. She studies how psychological resources such as perceived control and social support relate to adversity and depressive symptoms over time, and for whom. She will use these findings to develop a universal, trauma-informed digital intervention that builds everyday emotional resilience. She holds a joint Master of Psychology (Clinical) from the University of Melbourne and NUS.

Ms Amanah Bokhari

Young Person Co-Researcher

Ms Leandra Gyekye

Young Person Co-Researcher

Lab Alumni

Lara Acosta Siljestrom - NIHR Predoctoral Fellow
Karina Benza - PhD Student
Afraa Din - Young Person Advisor
Georgina Du Mello Gibbard - DClinPsy Student
Hannah Harwood - DClinPsy Student
Amber Inman - Placement Student
Aria Kazerouni - Visiting Student
Tin Tin Leong-Cheng - King’s Undergraduate Research Fellow
Lea Michel - Visiting PhD Student
Ahmad Muntadhar - Placement Student
Ayla Pollmann - PhD Student
Laura Riddleston - Affiliate Postdoctoral Researcher
Mariam Shah - Young Person Advisor
Hannah Slack - Affiliate Postdoctoral Researcher
Man Shiu Kwok - Placement Student
Lauren Turner - Affiliate Research Assistant