Professor of Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Victoria Leong is Full Professor of Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, Founding Director of the Early Mental Potential and Wellbeing Research (EMPOWER) Centre, Deputy Director of the Cambridge-NTU Centre for Lifelong Learning and Individualised Cognition and Associate Dean (Outreach and Partnerships) of the Graduate College at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. She is also Affiliated A/Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Cambridge, UK. Her research examines the neural basis of the parent-offspring “social interactome”, across human and rodent species, in both healthy and disease models. She is a pioneer in the use of dyadic-EEG and in the development of culture-fair dyadic sociometric predictive models of infant cognition and developing executive function. This research has been translated into early precision screening tools and personalised interventions (patent-pending), now being trialled in real-world contexts. Her work has received recognition through the FABBS Early Career Impact Award, Robert J. Glushko Prize and the Nanyang Research Award. She previously held the Sutasoma Junior Research Fellowship at the University of Cambridge (UK), followed by the Parke Davis Fellowship at Harvard University (US). Through her research labs based in Cambridge University and Singapore, she has mentored over 100 early career researchers and research students. She has built strategic partnerships across US, Europe, Asia, South America and Africa through international collaborative research programmes worth over SGD$50M (USD$35M), holding over SGD$20M (USD$15M) as Principal Investigator.