Yulia Kovas

Yulia Kovas (born March 12, 1973) is a geneticist and psychologist - a research professor at Hult International Business School, a Visiting Professor at King's College London. She is Emeritus Professor at Goldsmiths, University of London, where for over 18 years her roles included Chair of Psychology Ethics Committee, Director of a research lab (InLab) 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.

Kovas received the British Academy Wiley Prize in Psychology in 2012. 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 .

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.

Kovas' InLab, conducts international, interdisciplinary research into individual differences in cognition, motivation, achievement and other educationally relevant traits. Provided by Wikipedia