Eirini (Irene) Bika is currently a postgraduate student of cognitive psychology attending the MSc. program “Cognitive Psychology & Applications” at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (A.U.Th.), Greece. She completed the BSc. program “Psychology” at A.U.Th. in 2016, meaning that she is already a licensed psychologist. Her work experience is mainly on a clinical basis, as she has been working for the past three years as a consulting psychologist in centers promoting creative employment to people with intellectual disabilities and in vocational high schools supporting teenagers and their families. Nonetheless, her profound interest in research made her pursue a role in various research teams and finally participate in one of them in 2017. This collaboration was highly successful, resulting in two published papers (2017 and 2018) and some conference presentations. Her main research interests concern aging, cognitive abilities and decline, neurodegenerative diseases and the adaptation of new technologies able to facilitate the life of people with needs in these areas. She has been a member of “Psychological Company of Northern Greece” since 2019.
Eirini (Irene) Bika is currently a postgraduate student of cognitive psychology attending the MSc. program “Cognitive Psychology & Applications” at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (A.U.Th.), Greece. She completed the BSc. program “Psychology” at A.U.Th. in 2016, meaning that she is already a licensed psychologist. Her work experience is mainly on a clinical basis, as she has been working for the past three years as a consulting psychologist in centers promoting creative employment to people with intellectual disabilities and in vocational high schools supporting teenagers and their families. Nonetheless, her profound interest in research made her pursue a role in various research teams and finally participate in one of them in 2017. This collaboration was highly successful, resulting in two published papers (2017 and 2018) and some conference presentations. Her main research interests concern aging, cognitive abilities and decline, neurodegenerative diseases and the adaptation of new technologies able to facilitate the life of people with needs in these areas. She has been a member of “Psychological Company of Northern Greece” since 2019.