Biography

Henrike Moll , Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute for Learning and Brain Sciences

Dr. Henrike Moll is a postdoctoral fellow working with Dr. Andrew Meltzoff. Before coming to the institute, she earned a Ph.D. in Leipzig, Germany, working with Dr. Michael Tomasello at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. She was awarded the prestigious Dilthey Fellowship by the Volkswagen Foundation to support scholars who are facing up to the complex challenges presented by a multi-cultural world. In her research, Henrike explores the development of diverse social-cognitive abilities, among them the ability to take and understand perspectives. In particular she is interested in the development of young children’s ability to understand the point-of-view of other people, and the important role that joint attention plays in this process.