Dr. Marie Deserno is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Formal Methods group of the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin, Germany. Supported by a NWO Rubicon fellowship her research deals with models of change in developmental psychology and quality of life research in the autistic community. Her work is strongly rooted in the network approach to psychology developed at the Psychosystems group (University of Amsterdam) and sits at the intersection of developmental psychology and psychological methods.