Julianna is a research assistant at the SYNC lab and is involved in the Gravitation program ‘Growing Up Together in Society (GUTS)’. As a research assistant, Caroline is primarily involved with planning and screening of participants and data collection including MRI scans, behavioural experiments, and questionnaires.

Julianna has a background is in psychology and neuroscience and is currently enrolled in a Research Master in Neuroscience & Cognition at Utrecht University. During this master’s she also conducted her internship at SYNC, under the Braintime study, where she helped with the last wave of data collection in young adults.

Caroline Elkhoury is a research assistant at the SYNC lab and is involved in the Gravitation program ‘Growing Up Together in Society (GUTS)’. As a research assistant, Caroline is primarily involved with data collection including MRI scans, behavioral experiments, and questionnaires.

Caroline holds both a Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in Education and Child studies. Her master thesis focused on the relation between executive functioning, gender, and the effectiveness of prediction-based learning. During her masters, Caroline worked as a research intern at the Leiden Institute of Brain and Cognition (LIBC), where she gained her first experience with neuroimaging in young adolescents. After completing her masters, she worked as a research assistant at the Leiden Consortium on Individual Development (L-CID), a large longitudinal twin study on brain development in childhood and adolescence.