Victoria Leong is a developmental cognitive neuroscientist whose research into the neural synchrony between mothers and infants has been widely reported. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] Leong's PhD thesis won the Robert J. Glushko Prize of the Cognitive Science Society in 2014 "in recognition of outstanding cross-disciplinary work integrating neuroscience, psychology, linguistics and computational modelling." [6] She has a dual appointment at Nanyang Technological University and the University of Cambridge [7] and is head of the Baby-LINC Lab at the Department of Psychology at Cambridge. [8] She is a recipient of the 2020 Social Science and Humanities Research Fellowship by the Social Science Research Council.