Maheen Siddiqui
Research Fellow, Centre for Brain and Cognitive Development, Birkbeck

Dr Maheen Siddiqui is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Brain and Cognitive Development, Birkbeck. Her research focuses on developing new brain imaging techniques to understand early typical and atypical brain development. Maheen is particularly interested in understanding how brain energy metabolism shapes brain development and subsequent functional specialisation.

Maheen completed her PhD in Psychology at Birkbeck in 2018, on the BBSRC funded LIDo Doctoral Training Programme. She was subsequently awarded the ESRC Postdoctoral Fellowship followed by the Wellcome Early Career Award.