Dr. Margherita Malanchini

Dr. Margherita Malanchini is a Reader in Psychology at Queen Mary University of London. After graduating in Psychology from Goldsmiths University of London and obtaining her MSc in Developmental Sciences from Birkbeck College, Margherita started her PhD at Goldsmiths University of London. Her PhD research, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council, focused on the non-cognitive side of educational achievement, investigating how individual differences in motivation and anxiety contribute to differences in school achievement over development. After completing her PhD, Margherita worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry  Centre, King’s College London, and at the University of Texas at Austin. 

​Margherita is the Director of CoDE Lab and she is also the founder and director of an ongoing longitudinal study: Multi-cohort Investigation into Learning and Educational Success (MILES). Margherita collaborates closely with several longitudinal and genetically informative studies and has worked on several collaborative projects aimed at developing innovative applications to support online data collection as well as ‘gamified’ batteries of cognitive tests.

 

The goal of Margherita's research is to provide knowledge that can inform developmental interventions, ultimately allowing children and young people to achieve their full potential. ​