Dr. Clara Faria
Clara is from Brazil and is a junior doctor and aspiring child and adolescent psychiatrist. She currently serves as a Young Person Ambassador for ACAMH and is interested in eating disorders and in the epidemiology of mental health disorders in young people. Clara is a MPhil candidate in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Cambridge.
Dr. Marc Ferger
Marc is from Germany and is research fellow at the Group of Biological Child and Adolescent Psychiatry led by Prof. Dr. Julian Koenig at the University Hospital of Cologne. His broad research interests include the investigation of neuroendocrine systems and their impact on trauma-related disorders, especially non-suicidal self-injurious behavior, in children and adolescents. He is passionate about drug discovery and clinical trials since there is a high unmet medical need for the treatment of children and adolescents with psychiatric disorders.
Dr. Luis Farhat
Luis C. Farhat from Brazil is a final year medical student at the Faculty of Medicine FMUSP, University of São Paulo. He has a strong interest in epidemiology, evidence-based mental health and precision psychiatry. His research efforts are focused on obsessive-compulsive disorder and related disorders, e.g. trichotillomania, and neurodevelopmental disorders, e.g. autism and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, across the lifespan.
Dr. Gloria Cheung
Gloria is a Specialised Foundation Doctor and aims to pursue a career of academic child psychiatry. She is currently leading a qualitative research project on sexting and mental health in young women as part of her SFP project. She is also the junior clinical advisor of Student Psychiatry Audit and Research Collaborative (SPARC). Gloria developed her interest in academia during medical school and intercalated in Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience MSc at the University of York. Her research experiences have contributed to her appointment as Psych Star by RCPsych and nomination for the ACAMH Undergraduate Clinical Trainee of the Year.
Malaika Okundi
Malaika is a Research Assistant working on the Landscaping International Longitudinal Datasets (LILD) project, the Exploring the Transmission of experiences of Racism, Anxiety, DEpression in families (TRADE) project and the Catalogue of Mental Health Measures. Malaika joined the Social, Genetic & Developmental Psychiatry (SGDP) Centre as a research assistant in 2022 after completing a Bachelor of Science in Global Health and Social Medicine – Neuroscience at King’s College London.
Elena Triantafillopoulou
Elena has been working on the Catalogue of Mental Health Measures and the Landscaping International Longitudinal Datasets project. Her role also involves working as the project manager of Findable, Accessible and Reusable curated mental health data for DATAMIND, the Health Data Research Hub for Mental Health. Elena holds a dual BSc in Biology and Psychology and a certificate in Public and Professional Writing from the University of Central Florida, after which she completed the MSc in Developmental Psychology and Psychopathology at King’s College London.
Tanatswa Chikaura
Tanatswa Amanda Chikaura is a PhD candidate at the University of Cambridge. Her research interests are centered on Autism and Mental Health. Prior to beginning her PhD, Tanatswa completed an MPhil in Basic and Translational Neuroscience from the University of Cambridge and a BSc Honours in Psychology from the University of Zimbabwe. In addition to her academic pursuits, Tanatswa is the Founder and Director of Ndinewe Foundation, a mental health organization in Zimbabwe. Her work in mental health has been recognized through the Diana Award, which is given to young people for their social action or humanitarian efforts. The award is in memory of Princess Diana and is administered by the charity of the same name. Tanatswa has worked with local and international organizations that focus on youth empowerment, young people's mental health, and research, providing comprehensive advocacy and research to ensure mental health is given priority.
Pauline Thibaut
Pauline studied BSc in Biomedical Sciences - Neuroscience program at King’s College London. Throughout the BSc, she worked as a Research Assistant in Global Mental Health at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology, and Neuroscience, where she worked on developing, testing, and implementing low-cost and scalable depression interventions in low- and middle- income countries. Pauline then completed a MSc in Psychological Research at the University of Oxford, researching how antidepressants impact affective learning under distinct environmental conditions with varying levels of environmental enrichment. Pauline is passionate about developmental psychology and data-driven methodologies for research, as well as making data more discoverable from low- and middle- income countries.
Eliza Hamdorf
Eliza joined the Social, Genetic & Developmental Psychiatry Centre at King’s College London in early 2024 as a Research Assistant on the Landscaping International Longitudinal Datasets project. The project aims to identify and review longitudinal datasets worldwide and bring attention to areas that could be enriched.
Eliza obtained a Bachelor of Psychology (Honours) at Deakin University, Melbourne, during which she completed a thesis focusing on the impacts of childhood trauma on mental health. Eliza has also contributed to research at Deakin exploring the effects of screen time on the psychosocial development of young children, as well as on the mental health of Australian Defence Force personnel and veterans.
Hannah Lewis
Hannah is currently studying a BSc in Sport and Exercise Psychology at Loughborough University. In the 2023/24 academic year, she has been working at King's College London for her placement year. Her main roles have focused on developing and maintaining the Catalogue of Mental Health Measures, as well as working with Lived Experience Experts to help improve the accessibility of the content. She is interested in how mental health conditions develop throughout early life, and is excited to explore this further throughout her career after completing her undergraduate degree in the 24/25 academic year.
Maria Jose Rodriguez Pinzon
Maria Jose is currently studying Psychology with a Placement undergraduate degree at Cardiff University. During her placement year, she joined the PALM team at the Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychology Centre at King’s College London, and worked on the Catalogue of Mental Health Measures and the Landscaping International Longitudinal Datasets project.
