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PhD, DCPsych, is a Professor in Psychodynamic Neuroscience at University College London, a chartered psychologist and an integrative psychotherapist and the Director of the UCL Centre for Equality Research in Brain Sciences. Her lab focuses on the physical-mental health interface, funded by various national grants and consecutive European Research Council grants. Katerina is the President of the European Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience Society (ESCAN), the co-founder of the International Association for the Study of Affective Touch (IASAT) and a Fellow of the Association for Psychological Sciences. Katerina has published more than 200 scientific articles and is the editor of the volume: From the Couch to the Lab: Trends in Psychodynamic Neuroscience (2012, Oxford University Press). She has received several awards for her research, including the 2025 Federation of European Neuroscience Societies’ (FENS) Diversity Prize, the 2014 World Economic Forum’s Distinguished Young Scientist Award the 2016 International Neuropsychology Society’s Early Career Award and the Clifford Yorke Prize (2006) of the International Neuropsychoanalysis Society.