Dr Eleni Christoforidou

Dr Eleni Christoforidou

MSci (Hons), PhD, AFHEA

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Memberships & Courses

Professional Organisation Memberships

  • 2015 – 2020, British Neuroscience Association

  • 2015 – 2020, Federation of European Neuroscience Societies

  • 2015 – 2020, International Brain Research Organisation

Society Memberships

  • 2013 - Present, Mensa International

Professional Development Courses Completed

The Brain and Space

  • Offered by: Duke University
  • Completed in: Nov 2015
  • Description: This course concerns our spatial abilities, and covers vision, hearing, body position sensing, movement, and balance. It closes with topics involving representations, reference frames, navigation, memory, and cognition.

Introduction to Neuroeconomics: how the brain makes decisions

  • Offered by: National Research University, Higher School of Economics
  • Completed in: Sep 2014
  • Description: Neuroeconomics is a unified discipline, combining economics, psychology, and neuroscience. It provides economists and social scientists with a deeper understanding of how they make their own decisions, and how others decide.

Statistical Analysis of fMRI Data

  • Offered by: Johns Hopkins University, Bloomberg School of Public Health
  • Completed in: Sep 2014
  • Description: This course explores the intersection of statistics and functional magnetic resonance imaging, covering analysis of fMRI data, acquisition, and use in locating brain activity and making inferences about connectivity and predictions about psychological or disease states.

Genes and the Human Condition (From Behavior to Biotechnology)

  • Offered by: University of Maryland
  • Completed in: Aug 2014
  • Description: This course provides an understanding of the fundamental concepts of genomics and biotechnology, and their implications for human biology, evolution, medicine, social policy and individual life path choices in the 21st century.

The Addicted Brain

  • Offered by: Emory University
  • Completed in: Aug 2014
  • Description: The course covers many aspects of addiction, mainly to drugs, but also to the Internet, gambling and other behaviours.

Bioinformatics: Life Sciences on Your Computer

  • Offered by: Johns Hopkins University, Centre for Biotechnology Education
  • Completed in: Jul 2014
  • Description: This introductory five-week course on bioinformatics covered sequence databases, PubMed, BLAST searching, protein bioinformatics, secondary structure prediction, bacterial gene prediction, viral gene structure, eukaryotic gene prediction and DNA fingerprinting.