I am a clinical psychologist and research professor, head of the Center for Developmental Psychiatry (KU Leuven), coordinator of the KU Leuven Babylab, and coordinator of the neurocognitive research within the Leuven Autism Research consortium (www.laures.be). My research focuses on the perceptual, cognitive, socio-affectiveand neural correlates of neurodevelopmental disorders, in particular autism. We apply a variety of methodological approaches, including behavioral research, psychophysics, eye-tracking, EEG, diffusion MRI, functional MRI, and stress physiology assessment. A major translational goal is the design of objective tools to quantify socio-communicate sensitivity in various clinical populations (e.g. children with autism, preterm infants at increased risk for socio-emotional difficulties, adolescents with a history of trauma, …), and innovative interventions to enhance social functioning (e.g. long-term oxytocin intervention in autism).