Ayla Pollmann is a Research Associate at King’s College London, working on the EMBRACE project, which uses AI and digital health tools (such as wearables) to support maternal and child wellbeing globally. Her research combines psychological science and data science to better understand and improve health outcomes. She also completed her PhD in Psychology at King’s, where she investigated how adolescent adversity affects mental health and brain development, using large-scale cohort data and advanced statistical methods.