Dr. Clàudia Aymerich

Biography

Clàudia Aymerich is a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience at King’s College London. She works as an Honorary Clinical Fellow in child and adolescent psychiatry at the South London Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust. Clàudia completed her medical training at the Autonomous University of Barcelona and Pompeu Fabra University, where she also undertook her specialist psychiatry training at Basurto University Hospital in Bilbao, Spain. She earned her PhD, awarded 'Cum Laude' for her research on preventive approaches to psychotic disorders at the Basque Country University, and holds an MSc in Addictive Disorders from the University of Barcelona. Currently, Clàudia is completing her specialization, supported by a Post-MIR Scholarship from the Biobizkaia Health Research Institute, which allows her to combine clinical practice with research focused on the treatment and prevention of psychotic disorders. She has published over 20 academic papers in peer-reviewed journals and presented her work at various national and international conferences. In 2022, she received the Emerging Investigator Award from the Spanish Society of Psychiatry and Mental Health, and she has been awarded the Advanced Training Grant from the Alicia Koplowitz Foundation to support her work as a psychiatrist-researcher at King’s College London.

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