Position: Professor of Psychodynamic Neuroscience, Research Department of Clinical, Educational and Health Psychology, Division of Psychology and Language Sciences, UCL.

Education: PhD, DCPsych, MBPsS, MSc, MSc, Ptychion

Bio-sketch: Aikaterini (Katerina) Fotopoulou studied psychology in Athens, Greece, before completing her MSc degrees in cognitive neuropsychology and theoretical psychoanalysis at UCL, UK. She went on to conduct her PhD in cognitive neuroscience at the University of Durham, UK and more recently, a Clinical Doctorate in Existential Counselling and Psychotherapeutic Psychology at the NSPC, UK, leading to her registration with the British Psychological Society and the UK’s Health Professions Council. She is currently in private practice in North West London. For more details click here.

Research profile: Katerina’s research aims to understand the interface between mental and somatic health and ultimately advance the treatment of related health disorders, including unawareness following a stroke, functional motor and eating disorders. Katerina has published more than 150 papers (see full list) and edited the volume Fotopoulou, A. Conway, M.A. Pfaff, D. From the Couch to the Lab: Trends in Psychodynamic Neuroscience. Oxford University Press, 2012.

Funding: Katerina’s grant portfolio totals approximately 4.2 million EUR, including two grants from the European Research Council, a Starting Investigator Grant for the project BODILY SELF and a more recent Consolidator Award for the project METABODY (see projects). Her research at has also been funded by Volkswagen Foundation (Germany), HDRF (US), ISAN (Israel), an ESRC/MRC fellowship, the Neuropsychoanalysis Foundation, the American Psychoanalytic Association, a Wellcome Trust/UCL, Investing in Excellent Researchers Grant and a UCL Social Sciences Collaborative Award

Awards: In 2016, Katerina was awarded the Early Career Award of the International Neuropsychology Society recognizing her ‘substantive independent contribution to research in the area of brain-behavior relationships in the first 10 years post completion of training’. Previously she has also received the Distinguished Young Scientist Award (2014), by the World Economic Forum and The Elizabeth Warrington Prize (2011), the Early Career Award of the British Neuropsychological Society’s, the Clifford Yorke Prize (2006) the Early Career Award of the International Neuropsychoanalysis Society and the Papanicolaou Prize, the Early Career Award of the Hellenic Medical Society of Britain. In 2015, postgraduate students at the Institute of Neurology at UCL awarded her the Tony Pullen Lecturer of the Year Prize.

International Scientific Community Enabling: Katerina is the present-Elect of the European Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience Society,  co-founder and current board member of the International Association for the Study of Affective Touch(IASAT), a Fellow of the Association for Psychological Sciences and past co-chair of its International Convention, the past Secretary of the International Neuropsychoanalysis Society and the past President of the Psychology Section of the British Science Association. Katerina is also on the editorial board of several journals in the field and reviews for many national and international grant bodies and funding agencies, like the European Research Council.

Contact details

a.fotopoulou{at}ucl.ac.uk

See Katerina’s PUBLICATIONS

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