Highlights

Ioanna Stavraki Kaos is a wellbeing professional, educator, and international speaker with a BSc in Psychology from the University of Reading and an MSc in Applied Neuropsychology (Distinction) from the University of Bristol, where her research examined neuroanatomical relationships between EEG electrical activity and fMRI white matter tracts in older adults using overnight sleep recordings.

She is a Graduate Member of the British Psychological Society (GMBPsS) and holds a CBT Assessment and Formulation certification from the Oxford Cognitive Therapy Centre. She has been an international speaker on wellbeing and neuropsychology topics and is currently a Psychology Academic Teacher at Unicaf University, delivering Organisational and Business Psychology for the MSc programme.

Her NHS career included two years as Wellbeing Network Team Leader at Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, where she developed and led an innovative community wellbeing network grounded in Recovery, Asset-Based Community Development, and Coproduction principles across the West Berkshire region. She wrote for Simply Psychology between November 2022 and July 2024.

She has contributed to a book chapter in an upcoming IET publication on machine learning in digital healthcare.

Professional Experience

• Psychology Academic Teacher, Unicaf University (2021–present)
• Psychology Content Writer, Simply Psychology (2022–2024)
• Wellbeing Network Team Leader, Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust (2022–2024)
• Consultant, Conrati (2024–2025)
• Journal Specialist, Frontiers — Computational Neuroscience (2021–2022)
• Honorary Assistant Psychologist, Alzheimer’s Association Larnaca (2017–2018, volunteering)

Publications

Stavraki, I., Nicolaou, N., & Vizcaychipi, M. Electrophysiology and consciousness: A review. In E. Ang & M. Hernandez Silveira (Eds.), Applications of Machine Learning in Digital Healthcare. IET Publications. https://doi.org/10.1049/PBHE036E_ch5

Education

• MSc Applied Neuropsychology (Distinction), University of Bristol (2019–2020)
• BSc Psychology (Upper Second-Class), University of Reading (2016–2019)

Publications