International Conference 2024 - Keynote Speaker: Professor Fumiko Hoeft
Tuesday 29 August 2023
Professor Fumiko Hoeft MD PhD is the Director of University of Connecticut (UConn)’s Waterbury Campus; Professor of Psychological Sciences, Computer Science and Engineering, Educational Psychology, Mathematics, Neuroscience, Psychiatry and Paediatrics at UConn; Director of UConn’s Brain Imaging Research. Center; and Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioural Sciences at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF).
Her research focuses on the neurobiology of dyslexia and learning disabilities, its socio-emotional outcomes, factors that promote resilience and compensation, and emotional wellbeing. She is also passionate about science outreach to children, parents, educators and policy makers.
Honors include awards from the International Dyslexia Association (IDA), Society for Neuroscience, International Mind, Brain and Education Society (IMBES), and learning & amp; the Brain Foundation.
She has published over 300 articles and book chapters; delivered over 300 talks at international conferences, TEDx and the White House; and has been covered in the media such as The New York Times, NPR, CNN, the New Yorker, and Scientific American.
Q & A with Professor Fumiko Hoeft...
What do you love about being a researcher/educator?
The aha moments, thinking and the tedious process.
What are you working on right now?
Intergenerational transmission of language and literacy, compensatory mechanisms in dyslexia, and neural mechanisms of multiliteracy.
Why is it important and what impact do you hope it will have?
Supporting one child at a time.
What other historic or current research are you particularly interested in?
Perinatal brain development
What do you hope will be researched in the future?
Why do some children develop reading challenges and some not with seemingly similar backgrounds?
Tell us something interesting!
That I am an identical twin or that I went to high school in the U.K.
