Sofie Rousseau is an assistant professor (senior lecturer) at the Paul Baerwald School of Social Work and Social Welfare at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She received her PhD from the University of Leuven, Belgium, and completed postdoctoral training at the University of Haifa, Israel, as well as at Reichman University, Israel. Dr. Rousseau’s research focuses on the early caregiving environment, encompassing both home and daycare settings. She is passionate about understanding how these early caregiving environments interact with child endogenous processes such as EKG, EEG, and temperament, to shape longterm socio-cognitive and socio-emotional development. Moreover, she is committed to unravelling factors that may influence the quality of early care, particularly within the domains of caregiver psychopathology and cognitive/emotional processing. Dr. Rousseau is passionate about advanced statistical data analyses and the majority of her research benefits from innovative methodological designs (e.g., Machine Learning). Throughout her work, Dr. Rousseau aims to push the boundaries of our understanding in the field of early childhood development and to inform evidence-based practices in early childhood care.
