Paula-Simina Petric is a graduate of “Transilvania” University, Faculty of Medicine, Brasov, class of 2016. She has been a Specialist Doctor at the Clinical Hospital of Psychiatry and Neurology in Brasov since 2022. She has been a Ph.D. student at "Transilvania" University of Brasov since 2018. Her Ph.D. thesis is focused on cognitive and neuroimaging changes in patients with schizophrenia. Paula-Simina Petric is the author and co-author of several scientific papers published in her country and abroad, and she has participated as a speaker at national events dedicated to schizophrenia, cognitive impairment, and affective disorders. She is involved as a Study Coordinator in international clinical trials in schizophrenia.