Silia is a Senior Lecturer in Psychometrics at King's College London and co-leader of the Psychometrics and Measurement Lab at the department of Biostatistics and Health Informatics, IoPPN. Silia holds a BSc degree in Mathematics (University of Crete, Mathematics department), an MSc degree in Biostatistics with a thesis in applied psychometrics (National and Kapodestrian University of Athens-Medical School and Mathematics Department), and a PhD in Bayesian model comparison in latent variable models (Athens University of Economics and Business-Department of Statistics). Silia is an expert in psychometrics with a plethora of collaborations nationally and internationally. She is the funder of the Misophonia Clinical Academic Research Group (mCARG) at the IoPPN and the PI of the S-Five study for misophonia. Silia’s expertise is also in various methods used in applied biostatistics such as longitudinal data, survival analysis, and structural equation models, among others. Her research interests span from Psychometrics (IRT, EFA, CFE, SEM) to general methods in Biostatistics and methodological statistics.