Prof. Ioanna Giannopoulou currently works as an Associate Professor in Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece. She trained at the Maudsley and the Bethlem Royal Hospitals in London (UK). She has been a member of the Hellenic Society for Psychosocial Interventions in Disasters and Mass Emergencies, and the Hellenic Society for the Study of ADHD. She earned, a Medical Degree at the University of Athens in 1983, a Licentiate degree in Psychiatry at the Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden in 1987, and a Ph.D. at the Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College University of London, UK in 2003. Her research interests include trauma-related disorders, impact of COVID-19 on young people's mental health.