Profile Jennifer Lau

Jennifer Lau is the partner from KCL where she is Reader in Developmental Psychopathology. Her interests lie in understanding how genetic, environmental and cognitive factors interact to adaptive and maladaptive emotional outcomes during development. Jennifer completed her doctorate at the Social Genetic and Developmental Research Centre at the Institute of Psychiatry. She has worked at the National Institute of Mental Health and at the University of Oxford before returning back to the Institute of Psychiatry at KCL last year. She remains founding director of the Researching Emotional Disorders and Development lab at Oxford and KCL.