Yulia Kovas

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Yulia Kovas at the symposium Brain and Culture at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden, in October 2019

Yulia Kovas (born March 12, 1973) is a geneticist and psychologist - currently[ as of? ] a Visiting Professor at King's College London. She is Emeritus Professor at Goldsmiths, University of London, where over 18 years her roles included Chair of Psychology Ethics Committee, Director of a research lab and Director for Research for Psychology. She is a visiting professor at New York and other universities - in the United Kingdom, as well as research lead and scientific adviser to many international research projects and labs. She holds many academic appointments, including Chair of the Scientific Advisory Board of Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics.

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Kovas received the British Academy Wiley Prize in Psychology in 2012. [1] Kovas is the director of the International Laboratory for Interdisciplinary Investigations into Individual Differences, and collaborates on research into aetiology of individual differences as part of the Twins Early Development Study at King's College, London <https://www.teds.ac.uk/>.

Kovas received her Ph.D. in 2007 from the SGDP Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London. Her thesis on generalist genes and mathematics explored the origins of the individual differences in school mathematics. She received a degree in literature and linguistics as well as teaching qualifications from the State Pedagogical University of St Petersburg, Russia in 1996 and taught children of all ages for 6 years. She received a B.Sc in psychology from Birkbeck College, University of London in 2003 and an MSc in Social, Genetic, and Developmental Psychiatry from the SGDP Centre, King’s College. [2]

Kovas' InLab, conducts international, interdisciplinary research into individual differences in cognition, motivation, achievement and other educationally relevant traits. [3]

Awards and grants

Kovas has received external grant funding from NIH; MRC; British Academy, Royal Society, Beijing Normal University; Russian Federal Grants; Erasmus+ mobility. [4] In 2011, she was awarded the ‘Mega Grant for Leading International Scientists’ (£3,000,000) in Russia to establish the Laboratory for Cognitive Investigations and Behavioural Genetics at Tomsk State University (TSU) and to lead a program of interdisciplinary cross-cultural research into individual differences in cognition and learning. [5]

Kovas has received the British Psychological Society Award for Outstanding Doctoral Research Contributions to Psychology; [6] Goldsmiths Peake Award for learning and teaching; [7] British Academy Wiley Prize in Psychology; APS Janet Taylor Spence Award, [8] for Transformative Early Career Contributions; D.I. Mendeleev Medal from Tomsk State University for significant contribution to science and education; [9] Russian Academy of Education Award for the significant contribution to fundamental and applied scientific research. [10] [11]

Research interests

Kovas' research focuses on the origins of individual differences in cognitive abilities, emotional and motivational processes and academic achievement – towards more personalised educational approaches and to better education experience for all learners. [12] [13]  She leads several large-scale studies that combine different methods (quantitative and molecular genetics; experimental psychology; neuroscience) with unique samples, including twins; longitudinal cohorts of families with children conceived through IVF; adolescents exhibiting extraordinary performance in the domains of science, music, art and sports; populations with different socio-demographic and educational environments. [14]   Professor Kovas teaches and leads research projects at many international universities and is also a co-founder of the Accessible Genetics Consortium that aims to promote greater knowledge and beneficial use of etiological information. [15] Kovas' book Oedipus Rex in the Genomic Era, co-authored with Fatos Selita, explores the benefits and risks brought by advances in genetic science. [16] Her reearch intersts also include applications of interdisciplinary research to policy, business and the arts. She is consultant at TechnoTruth <https://technotruth.co.uk/dr-yulia-kovas/>, advising on education, wellbeing and behavioural genetics.

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  2. ↑ report, Combined (2012-03-20). "Revitalizing Russian science". www.rbth.com. Retrieved 2020-09-05.
  3. ↑ "InLab" . Retrieved 2022-03-17.
  4. ↑ report, Combined (2012-03-20). "Revitalizing Russian science". www.rbth.com. Retrieved 2020-09-05.
  5. ↑ report, Combined (2012-03-20). "Revitalizing Russian science". www.rbth.com. Retrieved 2020-09-05.
  6. ↑ "Award for Outstanding Doctoral Research Contributions to Psychology" . Retrieved 2022-03-17.
  7. ↑ "Professor Yulia Kovas". Goldsmiths, University of London . Retrieved 2022-03-17.
  8. ↑ "2013 Janet Taylor Spence Award". Association for Psychological Science - APS. Retrieved 2020-07-22.
  9. ↑ "The Tomsk State University Academic D.I. Mendeleev Fund Programme" . Retrieved 2022-03-17.
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  11. ↑ "Team". TAGC - EN. Retrieved 2020-07-22.
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  13. ↑ report, Combined (2012-03-20). "Revitalizing Russian science". www.rbth.com. Retrieved 2020-09-05.
  14. ↑ "Professor Yulia Kovas". Goldsmiths, University of London . Retrieved 2020-09-05.
  15. ↑ "Home". TAGC - EN. Retrieved 2020-09-05.
  16. ↑ Kovas, Yulia; Selita, Fatos (2021). Oedipus Rex in the Genomic Era. Springer. doi:10.1057/978-1-349-96048-4. ISBN   978-1-349-96047-7. S2CID   240157682 . Retrieved 2022-03-17.
  17. ↑ Malanchini, Margherita; Rimfeld, Kaili; Shakeshaft, Nicholas G.; McMillan, Andrew; Schofield, Kerry L.; Rodic, Maja; Rossi, Valerio; Kovas, Yulia; Dale, Philip S.; Tucker-Drob, Elliot M.; Plomin, Robert (2020-07-02). "Evidence for a unitary structure of spatial cognition beyond general intelligence". npj Science of Learning. 5 (1): 9. Bibcode:2020npjSL...5....9M. doi: 10.1038/s41539-020-0067-8 . ISSN   2056-7936. PMC   7331750 . PMID   32655883.
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