Joana is a doctoral candidate in the field of Computational Psycholinguistics and holds an MSc in Language Sciences: Neuroscience, Language and Communication from UCL, London. Her master's thesis focused on developing various machine learning and deep learning models for the implementation of Speech Emotion Recognition (SER). She completed her undergraduate studies in the Department of Philology at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA).

Research Interests:

Joana's doctoral thesis aims to quantify Formal Thought Disorder in Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders through multimodal analysis of text and audio, employing fusion approaches and machine learning methodologies. More broadly, her research interests lie in the integration of behavioural and neuroimaging data, including EEG and fMRI, to better understand language and cognition in clinical populations.