Associate Professor of Social Psychology at the University of Cyprus. She completed an MPhil and a PhD degree in Social and Developmental Psychology at the University of Cambridge in the UK. She has worked an Associate Editor for the European Journal of Social Psychology and is also member of the editorial board of the journal “Culture & Psychology”. She is interested in studying social representations and lay understanding of citizenship rights of social groups that are frequent targets of discrimination and exclusion, such as migrants and LGBT+ individuals. She is also interested in social representations of mental health issues, such as depression, developmental disabilities and eating disorders.