Dr. Trinh Nguyen

BIO

Dr. Trinh Nguyen graduated with a Doctorate degree in Developmental Psychology from the University of Vienna and currently works as a Research Associate at the University of Heidelberg and as a Marie Curie postdoctoral fellow at the Italian Institute of Technology in Rome, Italy. She is interested in the neurobiological processes underlying social interactions, in particular in early childhood. During her previous work, she examined interpersonal neural, behavioural and physiological synchrony in early development.  Dr. Nguyen looked at rhythmic communicative behaviours such as touch, turn-taking, and singing and how those behaviours might help infants and children coordinate with their caregivers. Currently, she is studying how communicative musicality develops in early childhood and is interested in role of singing and rhythmic movement for early development. Her research combines behavioural (micro-coding and motion tracking), neural (fNIRS and EEG), and physiological measures (ECG).