Dr. Chika Ezeugwu

Dr. Chika Ezeugwu is a Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard University's Mind Brain Behavior Initiative and a Research Fellow at Boston Children's Hospital, mentored by Professor Dana McCoy and Professor Charles Nelson. His scientific interests focus on integrating cognition, child development, neuroscience, and education to improve the educational practice and experience of children from low-income contexts, using a mixed-methods approach. Chika leads the “My Pikin Project,” which aims to understand the holistic nature of child development, focusing on cultural contexts and strengths that highlight adaptive skills, resilience, and diverse pathways through which children navigate everyday complexities. His current projects include developing ecological measures of executive functions, evaluating the contribution of executive functions to children's academic outcomes, and the contributions of maternal psychopathology to children’s cortical responses. Chika holds an MPhil and a PhD from the University of Cambridge, as well as a Bachelor of Science in Applied Psychology from Adekunle Ajasin University. 

At the SEED Lab, Chika has worked on the Afinidata intervention project in Brazil, contributing to the analysis of the qualitative data.