University of Zurich, Switzerland

Iliana Karipidis is an Oberassistentin at the University of Zurich and the University Hospital of Psychiatry Zurich in the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychotherapy. Karipidis studies how the brain’s function and structure change during development and learning. Her work focuses on how brain plasticity, genetic variation, and learning experiences contribute to individual differences in the development of language and literacy skills. A key question she explores is whether early risk factors and reliable predictors can be identified to explain why children follow different developmental paths in acquiring literacy skills, with the goal of supporting children at risk for learning difficulties as early as possible.