Dorota Chapko is a PhD candidate in Public Health at the University of Aberdeen in Scotland, UK, and a graduate from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) with a double-major in Brain & Cognitive Sciences and in Anthropology. She is a consultant for the World Bank’s Strategic Impact Evaluation Fund (SIEF). Her work examines potentially modifiable factors which maximize brain functions across the lifespan, particularly the interdisciplinary cross-linkage between early childhood development, aging and resilience.