Saloni Krishnan.
Cognitive sciences

Saloni Krishnan

Member since 2023

Occupation: Professor at University College London

I want to work across disciplines to improve the UK's research culture, enhancing inclusivity and creating better incentive structure to recognise rigour.

Bio

Saloni Krishnan is a Professor at University College London (UCL), where she leads the UCL N-CoDe Lab. Her research focuses on brain differences in childhood communication disorders, such as developmental language disorder (DLD) or dyslexia. She takes an interdisciplinary research approach, bringing together psychology, linguistics, and neuroscience. Saloni currently holds an Academy of Medical Sciences Springboard Award and a Medical Research Council New Investigator Research Grant. She won the 2021 Neil O’Connor Award from the British Psychological Society and was named a Rising Star by the Association of Psychological Sciences in 2022.

Roles

  • Health OpenSpaces
  • THRIVE Project Team

Interests

  • EDI process improvements
  • Engaging under-represented audiences
  • Healthy lifestyle support
  • Lifelong learning
  • Long-term health conditions
  • Open data
  • Research culture
  • Research translation
  • Social change
  • Societal impact of research
  • Systemic bias
  • Young women in STEM
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