Alice Massera, PhD

Alice is interested in how early life environments influence socio-cognitive and emotional development from infancy to early adulthood. In her postdoctoral work, she will focus on the effect of perinatal inflammation on brain development and behavioral outcomes in childhood, including executive function and its underlying brain circuits. Alice earned her PhD in Cognitive Neuroscience from Université Claude Bernard - Lyon 1 (France), where she studied the effects of early psychosocial deprivation on brain and behavioral trajectories across adolescence into early adulthood.