Eva Loth

I am a Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King’s College London. My main interest is in understanding the dynamic interaction between social and biological mechanisms in social, cognitive and emotional development in autistic and neurodivergent people. I am the Deputy Lead of the AIMS-2-TRIALS consortium, which aims to develop precision medicine for autism to better predict a person’s developmental outcome and tailor support to individual profiles. I co-lead our biomarker work programme, which comprises a set of large-scale multi-disciplinary longitudinal cohorts spanning infants, preschoolers, adolescents and adults with varying support needs.

I am also the Principal Investigator of RESPECT4Neurodevelopment, a UKRI Network Plus that brings together bioengineers, physicists, psychologists, psychiatrists and families with lived experience to develop responsible, reliable, scalable, and personalised neuro-technologies for neurodivergent children. Finally, an emergent interest is in studying the interplay between social-environmental adversities and protective factors in neurodevelopment and mental health in low-and middle income countries. Here, the current focus is on children and young people who experience multiple poverty-related adversities in South Africa.