Dr. Caroline E. Robertson
Director
Dr. Caroline Robertson is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at Dartmouth and the Director of the Dartmouth Autism Research Initiative (DARI).
Dr. Robertson has had a lifelong devotion to autism research, awareness, and service. At Dartmouth, her team seeks to better understand how people with autism see the world, and what neurodiversity looks like in the brain. In her community, Dr. Robertson is passionate about autism awareness and sensory-friendly community spaces. She helped to start SensoryUV in the Upper Valley of NH and VT.
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Dr. Robertson earned her PhD from the University of Cambridge as a Gates-Cambridge Scholar and NIH-Cambridge Fellow and continued her postdoctoral work at the McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT with a fellowship from the Harvard Society of Fellows. Caroline's contributions to cognitive neuroscience have been recognized by awards including the Society for Neuroscience’s Janett Rosenberg Trubatch Young Investigator Award, the NARSAD Young Investigator Award (2015), the National Academy of Sciences Kavli Fellowship (2016), and the NSF CAREER Award (2022).​ Dr. Robertson's contributions to autism research have been covered in national news sites including: The Huffington Post, U.S. News and World Report, Mother Jones, the Harvard Gazette, and Spectrum.
