Speaker
Dr. Marie-Pier Larose
Postdoctoral researcher, Department of Psychology and Speech Therapy, INVEST Research Center, University of Turku
Biography
Marie-Pier works as a postdoctoral researcher and is interested in identifying which preventive interventions and policies have the greatest potential to buffer social inequalities. Marie-Pier holds a Ph.D. in Public Health from the Université de Montréal (Canada). During her PhD, she investigated for whom childcare attendance was the most beneficial and by which developmental mechanisms these associations unfold (i.e., increase in cognitive abilities, lower levels of externalizing behaviors, lower levels of stress [measured with cortisol]). Her current research examines gene-environment interplay in the etiology of conduct problems. For this, she examines the developmental mechanisms between higher-order polygenic predisposition and later mental health symptomatology and academic achievement. Marie-Pier uses data from the Generation R longitudinal study at the Erasmus MC, the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children as well as Challenge Longitudinal Study at the University of Turku (Finland). Her post-doctoral fellowship is funded by the Quebec Research Health Fund (Canada).