Katerina Drakoulaki

  • Visiting Assistant Professor in Psychology
Katerina Drakoulaki, a woman with long dark brown hair, wearing a white shirt and smiling at the camera.

Katerina Drakoulaki is a postdoctoral fellow at the Cognition Attention Perception Speech Lab, currently investigating the role of implicit prosody and meter perception in children’s reading comprehension skills. She received her PhD in Psycholinguistics from the University of Athens with a focus on music and linguistic abilities in typical and atypical populations. Her doctoral research, awarded with distinction, explored the rhythmic abilities of pre-school children and the theoretical relationship between music and language cognition. She combines her strong academic background with practical experience, including clinical work in pediatric speech and language therapy. Dr. Drakoulaki is passionate about interdisciplinary research and science communication, contributing to open science and reproducible research efforts.

Education

  • Ph.D., National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
  • M.S.c., Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh
  • B.A., National and Kapodistrian University of Athens