Thalia has completed her direct-track PhD in Psychology at the School of Psychological Sciences, University of Haifa. Her dissertation, titled “A novel cognitive-based diagnostic support-system: Using machine-learning analysis for diagnosis of anxiety and depression”, is a translational study that reflects her desire to combine the clinical field with multidisciplinary research bridging cognitive and clinical psychology with computer sciences.

Thalia completed her clinical training during her PhD studies, and is now a certified clinical psychologist.

In addition to her work in the iPainLab, she is also a postdoctoral fellow at the Emotion-Cognition Interaction laboratory, headed by Prof. Hadas Okon-Singer, where she studies cognitive approaches to psychopathology, focusing on cognitive biases in anxiety and depression, and develops cognition-based interventions and diagnostic tools.

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