Teresa Del Bianco

Teresa is a senior lecturer in psychology at the School of Social Sciences and Professions.

Teresa is a senior lecturer in psychology and an active researcher in the field of autism and neuroscience.

Teresa trained as Medical Doctor and has a PhD in Psychological Sciences and Education. She has worked in research as biostatistician for clinical trials, and as postdoctoral researcher for multi-site studies employing eye-tracking and EEG across several countries (UK, Spain, France, South Africa, India).

Teresa teaches topics related to cognition, neurodevelopment and neurodiversity.

Teresa's research includes social cognition and attention in autism across development and genders using eye-tracking and electroencephalogram (EEG).

Del Bianco, T., Lai, MC., Mason, L. et al. Sex differences in social brain neural responses in autism: temporal profiles of configural face-processing within data-driven time windows. Scientific Reports 14, 14038 (2024).

 
Williams, E. H., Thompson, N. M., McCray, G., Crespo-Llado, M. M., Bhavnani, S., Gajria, D., Williams, E.H., Thompson, N.M., McCray, G., Crespo-Llado, M.M., Bhavnani, S., Gajria, D., Mukherjee, D., Del Bianco, T. et al. (2024). Scalable transdiagnostic early assessment of mental health (STREAM): a study protocol. BMJ open, 14(6), e088263. doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2024-088263
 
Del Bianco, T., Haartsen, R., Mason, L., Leno, V. C., Springer, C., Potter, M., ... & Jones, E. J. (2024). The importance of decomposing periodic and aperiodic EEG signals for assessment of brain function in a global context. Developmental Psychobiology, 66(4), e22484.
 
Del Bianco, T., Lockwood Estrin, G., Tillmann, J., Oakley, B. F., Crawley, D., San José Cáceres, A., ... & EU-AIMS LEAP Team. (2024). Mapping the link between socio-economic factors, autistic traits and mental health across different settings. Autism, 28(5), 1280-1296.
 
Del Bianco, T., Mason, L., Lai, M. C., Loth, E., Tillmann, J., Charman, T., ... & EU‐AIMS LEAP Group. (2022). Unique dynamic profiles of social attention in autistic females. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 63(12), 1602-1614. 
 
Del Bianco, T., Mason, L., Charman, T., Tillman, J., Loth, E., Hayward, H., ... & Zwiers, M. P. (2021). Temporal profiles of social attention are different across development in autistic and neurotypical people. Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging, 6(8), 813-824.
 
Haartsen, R., Mason, L., Braithwaite, E. K., Del Bianco, T., Johnson, M. H., & Jones, E. J. (2021). Reliability of an automated Gaze‐Controlled paradigm for capturing neural responses during visual and face processing in Toddlerhood. Developmental Psychobiology, 63(7), e22157.
 
 
Täubel, J., Ferber, G., Van Langenhoven, L., Del Bianco, T., Fernandes, S., Djumanov, D., ... & Camm, A. J. (2019). The cardiovascular effects of a meal: J‐Tpeak and Tpeak‐Tend assessment and further insights into the physiological effects. The Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, 59(6), 799-810.
 
Kleberg, J. L., Del Bianco, T., & Falck‐Ytter, T. (2019). How infants' arousal influences their visual search. Child Development, 90(4), 1413-1423.
 
Del Bianco, T., Mazzoni, N., Bentenuto, A., & Venuti, P. (2018). An investigation of attention to faces and eyes: Looking time is task-dependent in autism spectrum disorder. Frontiers in psychology, 9, 2629.
 
Del Bianco, T., Ozturk, Y., Basadonne, I., Mazzoni, N., & Venuti, P. (2018). The thorn in the dyad: A vision on parent-child relationship in autism spectrum disorder. Europe's journal of psychology, 14(3), 695. doi: 10.5964/ejop.v14i3.1453
 
Del Bianco, T., Falck‐Ytter, T., Thorup, E., & Gredebäck, G. (2019). The developmental origins of gaze‐following in human infants. Infancy, 24(3), 433-454.

'PI: "Through Their Eyes: Empowering Neurodivergent Perspectives with Eye-Tracking", R4N Pump Prime Feasibility Funding, £ 47037, 2024-2025
 
Career Award (Grant development and writing retreat), Wellcome Trust Institutional Strategic Support Fund, £ 840.80, 2022
 
Co-PI: "Capturing socio-economic diversity in global child health and neuro-diverse populations", Birkbeck Institute of Social Research Conference Funding, £ 1485, 2021-2022

 

Strategic Ethics Lead of AIMS-2-TRIALS

Social attention shows sex difference in autism - Research by Del Bianco et al. covered by The Transmitter
 
Social attention shifts differently over time for autistic adults - Research by Del Bianco & al. covered by The Transmitter
 

Dr Teresa Del Bianco

Senior Lecturer

t.delbianco@londonmet.ac.uk