Yana Fandakova
Research Scientist, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Center for Lifespan Psychology
Yana Fandakova is a principal investigator at the Center for Lifespan Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin and an incoming Professor of Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Trier. She completed her PhD at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development, and her postdoctoral training at the University of California, Berkeley and University of California, Davis. Her research explores the neural basis of learning and memory development across the lifespan. Yana is particularly interested in the role that cognitive control processes play in scaffolding learning and remembering in childhood and adolescence. Currently, she is combining cognitive interventions with multiple neuroimaging assessments to investigate the progression of behavioural and neural plasticity in childhood, and the extent to which they depend on the maturity of the underlying brain networks.