I am a Developmental Cognitive Neuroscientist and a Licensed School Psychologist, specializing in cognitive and brain development, as well as in neurodevelopmental disorders. I obtained my BSc degree in Psychology (with Excellence) from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens in 2003. In 2007, I completed a 3-year MA degree in School Psychology (with Excellence) at the University of Cyprus. During the final year of my graduate training, I worked as a trainee School Psychologist at the Educational Psychology Services of the Ministry of Education and Culture in Cyprus, fulfilling the requirements of my clinical internship. In 2008, I pursued an MSc in Psychological Research (obtained with Distinction) at the University of Oxford before embarking on a 4-year DPhil program at the University of Oxford. My PhD research, completed in 2012 under the supervision of Prof. Gaia Scerif and in close collaboration with Prof. Kia Nobre, focused on the neurocognitive correlates of attentional control and visual working memory from early childhood until adulthood, studied with behavioral and neuroimaging measures. During the final year of my PhD research, I spent time in New York at the Sackler Institute for Developmental Psychobiology of Cornell University, working with Prof. BJ Casey. Following the completion of my doctorate, I worked as a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Medical Research Council, Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit at the University of Cambridge with Dr. Duncan Astle for a year. Subsequently, in 2013 I returned to the University of Oxford, working as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Attention, Brain, & Cognitive Development lab for 3 years. I spent summer of 2016 at the University of Edinburgh collaborating on research with Prof. Robert Logie before joining the Cyprus Institute of Neurology and Genetics as a Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellow for 2 years. Since September 2018, I have been based at the Department of Psychology at the University of Cyprus as a faculty member. Click here for my departmental profile page.