Athena Demertzi
Athena Demertzi PhD student, graduated from the Faculty of Psychology at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece in 2005. Soon after, she pursued the Research Master’s in Cognitive Neuroscience, Neuropsychology, and Psychopathology, at Maastricht University, The Netherlands where she specialized in the field of Neuropsychology. During the masters, she conducted her research internship at the Blixembosch Rehabilitation Centre, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, where she studied self-awareness deficits in everyday life following brain injury. She graduated in August 2007 and has next joined the Coma Science Group as an Early Stage Researcher appointed by the Marie Curie Research Training Network “DISCOS” – Disorders and Coherence of the Embodied Self. Under supervision of Steven Laureys, she investigates the neural basis of the elementary personal identity in patients with altered states of consciousness, such as vegetative and minimally conscious patients.