Dr Delia Fuhrmann studies how the mind and brain changes across the lifespan, and develops measures and models to capture young people’s experiences like loneliness or adversity. She leads the LIFE-MAP Lab, which seeks to provide methodology and knowledge to inform prevention and intervention efforts with the aim of fostering well-being across the lifespan.

Prior to joining King’s, she was a Postdoctoral Researcher at the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit and a Research Associate at Sidney Sussex College, University of Cambridge. She completed her PhD in Cognitive Neuroscience at the University College London and her BSc Hons Psychology at the University of St Andrews. Please visit Delia’s personal website for more information.

Research interests

• Lifespan Development
• Longitudinal Modelling
• Psychometrics
• Adverse experiences and stress
• Loneliness
• Plasticity and sensitive periods

Teaching

Delia teaches on the BSc Psychology Programme in the following areas: Research Methods and Open Science and runs coding and statistics workshops and consults on research design and analysis.

Expertise and public engagement

• Runs workshops for educational and clinical practitioners on lifespan development.
• Delivers talks about her research in schools, and participates in panel discussions.
• Contributed articles and research briefings for policy makers and the general public, e.g. in the Times Education Supplement.