Dr. Pauline Slot is a researcher at Educational and Learning Sciences at Utrecht University. Her research interests concern structural and process quality of ECEC, and children’s language and self-regulation skills development. Slot has written a PhD thesis at the department of Educational and Learning Sciences of Utrecht University on ECEC curriculum, structural and process quality of ECEC provisions in the Netherlands and its effects on children’s vocabulary and self-regulation and executive functioning skills development. Currently, Slot is a researcher in the European CARE project, in which she conducted secondary data analyses on five European datasets into the relations between structural and process quality and issues of social selection mechanisms in ECEC. Moreover, she co-coordinates a multiple case study in nine European countries into ECEC quality and curriculum. Also, she is involved as researcher in a Danish RCT study into enhancing young children’s school readiness by implementing a professional development program. Further, she is the co-supervisor of a Polish PhD student from Warsaw University who studies relations between structural and process quality of Polish ECEC services for 0-3 years old children.