Prof. C. Greven (Corina)

Corina Greven (PhD December 2011) is a psychologist and behavioural geneticist. She is assistant professor and ‘JuniorPI’ at the Donders Institute, Radboudumc, and visiting researcher at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King’s College London (UK). She is research coordinator at Karakter child and adolescent psychiatry, where she is active in bridging fundamental research and clinical practice, and invited chair of the ‘Kennisbeurs’ funding scheme to implement research ideas derived from clinical practice. At the Donders, she leads an interdisciplinary research group “Positive Developmental Psychopathology” focused on underpinnings and treatment of child mental disorders in the context of normal variation from positive functioning to psychopathology. She is Principal Investigator of MindChamp (see below), funded by Horizon 2020 (2015-2019; agreement: 643051) and the Netherlands Foundation for Mental Health (2017-2018, agreement: 20167057). She is supervisor of 6 PhD students (4 completed). Her degrees (PhD, 2011; MSc, 2008; BSc Hons, 2007) received the highest accolade (e.g. Dean’s List (top 5%), British Psychological Society Award). She is advisory board member of ‘Behavior Genetics’, and part of the Radboudumc rising star Galilei talent programme. She is winner of Young Scientist Awards from the World Congress on ADHD (2015, 2011) and Eunethydis (2013, 2014). In 2016, she won the prestigious Kramer-Pollnow Young Investigator Award for outstanding contribution to the study of hyperkinesis.

Her research group: http://www.ru.nl/donders/research/theme-3-plasticity/positive-developmental-psychopathology/

Focus areas:
- mechanisms (e.g. quantitative genetic, neurobiological) underlying ADHD and ASD
- boundaries between mental health and disorder (e.g. positive side of mental disorders; differential susceptibility)
- mindfulness intervention for ADHD (to reduce symptoms and increase positive mental health)

• Development and lifelong plasticity

• Genetic Epidemiology of Brain Traits and Neuropsychiatric Disorders
• Developmental Neuropsychiatry