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.