Ilse Coolen
Co-President I am currently a postdoctoral fellow working on a longitudinal project on cognitive variability in young children at the Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour. I also continue to collaborate on a longitudinal project investigating domain-general and domain-specific contributions to the development of mathematics achievement in 3-to-9-year-olds at the Université de Paris in France. Before this, I had the opportunities to work with the University of Tuebingen and the department of Experimental Psychology at the University of Oxford. In Tuebingen, I was interested in the influence of languages on number processing, in particular, the German and the French language. In Oxford, I collaborated on a project exploring the interactions between early domain-general cognitive skills and numerical skills in preschoolers. I finished my PhD in 2018 at the University of Hull where my love story with numerical cognition started. I was interested in the Approximate Number System and its link to mathematics achievement in primary school children. Originally, I’m from Brussels, where I graduated as a clinical psychologist from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. Today, I am happy to be able to contribute as Co-Chair to MCLS trainee, a society targeting trainees in the research field of numerical cognition. I have been involved in, among other things offering a mentoring program/ buddy system to early career researchers and organising the online MCLS conferences during COVID lockdowns and it is a delight to be part of this amazing early career MCLS trainee board. |
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