Nilgoun /'ni:lgʊn/ is a postdoctoral research scholar in the ALBA lab, working primarily on the Dyslexia Project. She holds a PhD in Experimental Psychology from the University of Oxford (Brain, Speech, and Language Lab), and a clinical Master’s degree in Speech-Language Pathology from the University of Toronto, where she completed her clinical residency at the Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids).

Nilgoun’s research sits at the intersection of clinical practice and developmental cognitive neuroscience. Her work focuses on the neuropsychological and neurobiological mechanisms underlying learning-based language disorders, including developmental dyslexia, developmental language disorder (DLD), and their  co-occurrence with other neurodevelopmental conditions. She specializes in multimodal neuroimaging pipelines, including diffusion MRI, quantitative MRI, functional MRI, and surface-based morphometric analyses to better understand the biological basis of language and learning difficulties in children.