Dr. Anna Alexandrova-Karamanova is Associate Professor in Health and Developmental Psychology at the Department of Psychology, Institute for Population and Human Studies – Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. Her research focuses on mental health and well-being, risk health behaviour and healthy lifestyles, psychosocial and sociocultural determinants of health, adolescent health, coping with disease, patients’ experiences, COVID-19, body image and appearance, adolescence and emerging adulthood, subjective experiences of youth on challenges and transition, positive youth development, school environment, personality determinants of health and behaviour. Anna Alexandrova-Karamanova is affiliated with the European Health, Psychology Society (EHPS) as National Delegate for Bulgaria and Editor of EHPS publications. She is Scientific Secretary of Section Health and Counseling Psychology at the Bulgarian Psychological Society and Head of the Doctoral Programme in Developmental and Educational Psychology at the Institute for Population and Human Studies – Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. Presently, Dr. Alexandrova-Karamanova is the Principal Investigator of an international research project on the experiences of severe and critical COVID-19 survivors in the Eastern and Central European region and of a national study on adolescent health and well-being in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic.