288 Brief CV Mia Athina Thomaidou was born on 23 September 1989 in Greece and grew up in a small suburb on the coast of Athens. She attended High School in Anavissos and Kalyvia between 2004 and 2007. In 2011, Mia moved to England and commenced her university studies a year later. During her undergraduate studies at the university of Westminster, London, she attended the University of Oxford for one year, where she completed and published a neuropharmacological research study. She also volunteered as an assistant clinical neuropsychologist at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital in London. In 2016 Mia received her bachelor’s degree in Cognitive Neuroscience with honours. Pursuing her interest in science, she moved to the Netherlands and started a Master’s in Clinical Neuropsychology at Leiden University. During that master’s, she did a research internship at the Center of Neurogenomics and Cognitive Research, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, where she completed an independent research project based on brain imaging data mining. In late 2017, Mia started her PhD-project in the research group of Prof. Andrea Evers at Leiden University. Mia worked on a project sponsored by a Vici grant awarded to Prof. Evers by the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research and investigated the biobehavioral underpinnings of learned pain. In addition to the research activities, she supervised and taught bachelor’s and master’s students and presented her work at numerous conferences. During her PhD, Mia also completed a second master’s degree in Comparative Criminal Justice at Leiden Law School, with the aim of combining biobehavioral and legal research in her future career. In 2022, Mia is completing her PhD while also working on several research projects in collaboration with Rutgers University, New Jersey, that investigate how biobehavioral science is translated and used in criminal justice systems.
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