Sophia Richardon is a research associate and doctoral candidate at the Hector Research Institute of Education Sciences and Psychology.

Her research interests lie in interdisciplinary research between education, psychology and neuroscience. With the help of physiological data, she wants to investigate how learning processes take place.

As part of the GIDEON project, Sophia is also focussing on the neuroscientific perspective on the learning processes of gifted primary school children. At the same time, she is investigating how gifted primary school children acquire neuroscientific content.