Research
I am a PhD student at the University of Regensburg since 2025 and a recipient of a Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes scholarship. My research focuses on maternal unpredictability and its role in shaping children’s socioemotional and cognitive development, as well as its potential contribution to the intergenerational transmission of trauma. I am especially interested in cross-cultural research and in extending developmental science to underrepresented populations in the Global South.
María José Garzón
- E-mail address: maria.lobeda-garzon(at)psychologie.uni-regensburg.de (opens your email program)
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Academic career
- 06/2023 – 12/2025: Research Associate at the Department of Psychiatry and Neurosciences at Charité Campus Benjamin Franklin, Berlin
- 01/2023 – 03/2023: Research Associate at the University of Regensburg, Department of Developmental Cognitive Psychology, Germany
- 2022: Master of Science in Mind and Brain, Track Brain, Humboldt Universität, Berlin
- 2015: Bachelor of Arts in Clinical Psychology & minor in Educational Psychology, Universidad San Francisco de Quito
Awards and scholarships
Awards and scholarships
Since 09/2025: Doctoral Scholarship, Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes (German Academic Scholarship Foundation)
04/2024: Financial incentive system to promote gender equality at the University of Regensburg
07/2024: Travel grant from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) to attend the International Congress of Infant Studies 2024 in Glasgow, United Kingdom
Publications
Publications
- Garzòn, M., Korja, R., Ainamani, H., Ndyareeba, E., Töpfer, P., Holmberg, E. & Köster, M. (in press). Unpredictable Maternal Behaviour and Infant Emotional Reactivity in the Context of High Maternal Adversity. Child Development. (preprint: doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/xmr
Lectures
- Garzón, M.J. Unpredictable Maternal Behaviour and Infant Emotional Reactivity in the Contextof High Maternal Adversity . The International Congress of Infant Studies (ICIS), Glasgow, Scotland, July 2024
- Garzón, M.J. Unpredictable Maternal Behaviour and Infant Emotional Reactivity in the Context of High Maternal Adversity. Symposium on New Approaches to the Study of Early Social Interactions, Fachgruppentagung Entwicklungspsychologie, Berlin, Germany, September 2023.