Sophie von Stumm

von Stumm attended the Schadow-Gymnasium in Berlin which she graduated from with an Abitur certificate in 2002.

Afterwards she was awarded an ESRC postdoctoral fellowship that she completed at the Department of Psychology at the University of Edinburgh.

[5] von Stumm studies the causes and consequences of individual differences in psychological and behavioural development across the life course.

She takes an inter-disciplinary approach to observing behaviour and environments, primarily through the application of new assessment technologies that enable collecting big, high-quality data.

She focuses her studies in particular on three areas: (1) the effects of early life environments on children’s language development; (2) the role of personality traits like curiosity and imagination for learning; and (3) the relationship between genome-wide polygenic scores and educational attainment.