Eva Loth

Eva Loth is a Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King’s College London. Her main interest is in understanding the dynamic interaction between social and biological factors in social, cognitive and emotional development in autistic and neurodivergent people. She is 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. She co-leads the biomarker work programme, which comprises a set of large-scale multi-disciplinary longitudinal cohorts spanning infants, pre-schoolers, adolescents and adults with varying support needs.

She is 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, her 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.