Full Record of Events

Invited Presentations

1. Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, NYU Langone Health (US, 2025). “Early Life Experiences & Psychobiological Development“, Host: Dr. Filippi
2. Department of Clinical Child and Family Studies, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (NL, 2025). “The biological embedding of early relationships: attachment-predicted physiological profiles”, Host: Prof. Dr.Schuengel
3. Center for Mind and Brain, UC Davis (US, 2022). “The cradle of social development in (a)typical development: empirical insights”, Host: Prof. Dr. Hostinar
4. Intimacy Convention, hosted by Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (NL, 2022). “Attachment and Interpersonal Relationships in Early Development.” Keynote
5. Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, NYU Langone Health (US, 2021). “The Role of Parent–Child Interactions in Child Social Development”, Host: Prof. Dr. Thomason
6. Department of Psychology, University of Montreal (CA, 2019). “Serious Games Design: Development and Effectiveness in Children with Disabilities”, Host: Prof. Dr. Wittich
7. Center for Infant Cognition, University of British Columbia (CA, 2019). “Social Facial Mimicry, Empathy, and Moral Development”, Host: Prof. Dr. Hamlin Munich Center for Neurosciences, Brain, and Mind, Ludwig Maximilian University (DE, 2019). “Experimental Investigations of Facial 8. Electromyography in Young Children”, Host: Prof. Dr. Markus Paulus
9. Research Institute of Child Development and Education, University of Amsterdam (NL, 2018). “Social Facial Mimicry”, Host: Dr. Colonnesi
10. Department of Psychology, Harvard University (US, 2018). “The Development of Social Facial Mimicry”, Host: Prof. Dr. Spelke

Conference Talks & Symposia

1. A healthy start: Examining the contribution of caregiving quality to child physical health from birth to 14 Years, Oral presentation at International Congress on Infant Studies, Glasgow, UK, Jul 8-11, 2024
2. State-of-the-Art and Future Directions of (Infant) Facial Electromyography, Oral presentation at International Congress on Infant Studies, Glasgow, UK, Jul 8-11, 2024
3. In sync, we learn! A meta-analysis of biobehavioral synchrony’s effects on cognition, Oral presentation at Dutch Society for Developmental Studies, Tilburg, NL, May 30-31, 2024
4. International evidence for the enduring impact of sensitive caregiving on child development and family dynamics, Symposium organizer at International Attachment Conference, Rouen, FR, Jul 15-17, 2024
5. From secure base to positive risks: The interplay between attachment and curiosity across 14 years, Oral presentation at International Attachment Conference, Rouen, FR, Jul 15-17, 2024
6. Self-compassion: In dire need of assessment tools across the broader spectrum of cognitive functioning, Poster presentation at International Attachment Conference, Rouen, FR, Jul 15-17, 2024
7. Determinants of maternal breastmilk cortisol increase: prenatal dispositional and postnatal situational factors” Oral presentation at Society for Research in Child Development, Salt Lake City, US, Mar 23-25, 2023
8. Neurobiological mechanisms underlying the effects of attachment on development across species, Symposium organizer at International Society for Developmental Psychobiology, San Diego, US, Nov 9-11, 2023

9. The effects of COVID-19 on prospective and new parents and their offspring, Symposium organizer at
International Congress on Infant Studies, Ottawa, CA, Jul 7-10, 2022
10. Attunement in parent-infants with visual impairments, Poster presentation at International Low Vision Conference, Dublin, UK, Jul 5-8, 2022
11. Parent-infant attunement in infants with and without visual impairments, Poster presentation at World Health Association on Infant Mental Health, Brisbane, Australia, Jun 23-27, 2021 (online)
12. Empathy and the development of social-emotional mimicry, Oral presentation at Dutch Society for Developmental Studies, Wageningen, NL, May 18-19, 2021 (online)
13. The impact of COVID-19 in pregnant women, fathers, and their offspring, Symposium organizer at Society for Research in Child Development, Apr 7-9, 2021 (online)
14. On the links between social facial mimicry, empathy, and moral development, Oral presentation at International Attachment Conference, Vancouver, CA, July 18-20, 2019
15. Facial electromyography in young children and its relation to attachment and cognitive control, Oral Presentation at International Congress on Infant Studies, Philadelphia, US, Jun 30- Jul 3, 2018
16. Developmental social mimicry and empathy across childhood and adulthood, Poster presentation at Jean Piaget Society, Amsterdam, NL, May 31- Jun 2, 2018
17. Why we mimic: exploring the role of attachment and empathy, Oral presentation at Dutch Society for Developmental Studies, Wageningen, NL, May 15-16, 2018
18. Adult attachment modulates pupil size and facial mimicry, Oral presentation at Society for Affective Science, Los Angeles, US, Apr 26-28, 2018
19. A protocol for assessing facial mimicry, Poster presentation at Conference on Infant and Early Child Development, Lancaster, UK, Aug 25-27, 2016