We are proud to celebrate Dr. Özlü Aran, PhD, who has been honoured with the 2025 Dissertation Award for her outstanding work in Developmental and Child Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience. This award recognizes scholars who make meaningful contributions to understanding human growth, learning, and behavior.
Dr. Aran serves as a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Research on Integrated and Early Development (REID) Lab, College of Science, Northeastern University. Her research focuses on how children’s brains and behaviors develop in the early years of life. By studying the links between cognition, emotion, and environment, her work offers new insights into how children learn, think, and adapt.
Her dissertation discussed important elements that determine the early brain development and learning behavior in young children. Her research results have widened our insights on the development of cognitive abilities at an early age and provided avenues into the realm of improved educational and developmental care.
The practical impact of the research of Dr. Aran is unique. It can assist teachers, caregivers and researchers in knowing the impact early experiences have on lifelong learning. Her writing is a bridge between theory and practice real-life application- She offers useful knowledge to the classrooms, research laboratories, and even the kitchen.
Such colleagues refer to Dr. Aran as a reflective and committed researcher whose interest and devotion are the main driving forces behind her work. Her work still has an impact on other people in psychology, neuroscience and education.
The Dissertation Award 2025 is an award that has shown the great contribution of Dr. Aran to developmental science and her continuous attempt to develop child-based research. Her work helps us to remember how research is able to help us to have a better understanding, more supportive systems, and more promising futures of children all over.
In GlobalX Publications, we take pride in publishing the works of such scholars such as Dr. Ozlu Aran whose contributions to the study and educating people still influence the manner through which we perceive human development.