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Dr Rosa Hoekstra The Open University
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Dr Rosa Hoekstra joined the Open University in January 2009. Rosa studied Biomedical Science at the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands. After a research internship at the Autism Research Centre at the University of Cambridge, she started her PhD studies in Behavioural Genetics at the VU University in Amsterdam in 2003. Her PhD project focused on the genetic and environmental influences on the development of cognition and on variation in autistic traits in late adolescence. She returned to the Autism Research Centre in 2007 to pursue her studies into autistic traits. Since taking up her lecturer’s post at the Open University, Rosa combines her research with teaching in the field of Biological Psychology.
In her research, funded by a Rubicon grant from the Netherlands Organisation of Scientific Research, she aims to contribute to a better understanding of the heterogeneity of the autism spectrum. One way she wishes to achieve this is by exploring the cognitive strengths and weaknesses of the autism phenotype and to examine whether there is a genetic link between intellectual abilities and autistic traits. She is also involved in a prevalence study of autism and in studies of the broader autism phenotype.
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