Evangelia G. Chrysikou

Center for Cognitive Neuroscience
Department of Psychology
University of Pennsylvania


Mailing address:
3720 Walnut Street, 
Solomon Lab Room B51
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6241
 
Office address:
3810 Walnut St., Room 307
Philadelphia, PA 19104

215.573.6726  (phone)
215.898.1982  (fax)
E-mail: evangelg@psych.upenn.edu



CV

Education

2006 – Present	Post Doctoral Research Fellow
                               Center for Cognitive Neuroscience
                               Department of Psychology,
	University of Pennsylvania
                               Advisor: Sharon L. Thompson-Schill, Ph.D.

2009 – Present	Post Doctoral Research Associate
                               Depression Research Unit
                               Department of Psychiatry,
                               University of Pennsylvania
	Supervisors: Robert J. DeRubeis, Ph.D., & Jay D. Amsterdam, M.D.

2009 – Present	Post Doctoral Research Fellow
                               Moss Rehabilitation Research Institute
                               Philadelphia, PA
	Advisor: Myrna F. Schwartz, Ph.D.

2005 – 2006	Post Doctoral Research Associate
	Cognitive Neuropsychology Lab
Department of Psychology, 
Temple University
                               Advisor: Tania Giovannetti, Ph.D.

2001 – 2005 	Ph.D., Cognitive-Experimental Psychology
                               Department of Psychology, 
Brain, Behavior, and Cognition Program
Temple University – Philadelphia, PA 
Advisor: Robert W. Weisberg, Ph.D.

1996 – 2000 	B.A., Psychology
                               Summa cum Laude with High Honors 
                               Panteion University of Athens – Athens, Greece


Funding

National Institutes of Health: 1R21-MH083029 to the University of Pennsylvania
"Effects of Psychopathology on Prefrontal Cortical Functioning During Goal-Directed Behavior" 
Direct costs: $275,000, 08/15/09 to 08/14/11
(PI: Sharon L. Thompson-Schill, Ph.D.) 

Honors & Awards

2009 – July	         Women in Cognitive Science Travel Award for attendance and participation in the 31st 
                              Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (Amsterdam, The Netherlands, July      
                              29th-August 1st, 2009).

2009 – June	         Travel Award for attendance and participation in the 2009 John Merck Fund Summer         
                              Institute on the Biology of Developmental Disabilities hosted by the Sackler Institute for     
                              Developmental Psychobiology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York (June 9-14, 2009). 

2009 – January    Travel Award for attendance and participation in the Conference titled “What is the Functional Organization of the Prefrontal Cortex for Executive Function?” hosted by the Interdisciplinary Behavioral Science Center and funded by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) - University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, Colorado (January 14-16, 2009.

2008 – October    Travel Award for attendance and participation in a Workshop for women 
                               in science and engineering sponsored by the National Science Foundation ADVANCE Institutional Transformation Program – Rice University, Houston, Texas (among 75 participants out of more than 1,100 applicants). 

2005 – 2006	Fulbright Fellowship for Academic Training in Psychology at Temple University and the Community College of Philadelphia (mutual educational exchange grant under the Fulbright Hays Act, Public Law 256, 87th Congress)

2006 – July	Travel Award for International Conference Presentation, American Psychological Association, Committee on International Relations in Psychology.

2001 – 2005	Teaching Assistantship and Graduate Tuition Scholarship from Temple University, College of Liberal Arts

2001 – 2005           Fulbright Fellowship for Graduate Studies in Psychology at Temple University (mutual educational exchange grant under the Fulbright Hays Act, Public Law 256, 87th Congress)

2004 – 2005	          Bolton Dissertation Research Award, Temple University, Department of Psychology

2004 – 2005	Distinguished Teaching Award, Temple University, College of Liberal Arts

2005 – June	American Psychological Association Advanced Training Institute Visiting Fellowship Program in Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging at the Massachusetts General Hospital, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Harvard Medical School Athinoula A. Martinos NMR Center for Biomedical Imaging (June 19-24, 2005). 

2004 – 2005	          Travel Award, Temple University, College of Liberal Arts

2004 – 2005 	Travel Award, Temple University, Department of Psychology

2003 – 2004	Travel Award, Temple University, Department of Psychology

1999 – 2000 	Scholarship award for outstanding academic performance (Graduation Rank: 1st) from the National Scholarships Foundation of Greece 

1998 – 1999 	Scholarship award for outstanding academic performance (Rank: 2nd) from the National Scholarships Foundation of Greece

1997 – 1998 	Scholarship award for outstanding academic performance (Rank: 3rd) from 
the National Scholarships Foundation of Greece

1996 – 1997 	Scholarship award for outstanding academic performance (Rank: 1st) from 
the National Scholarships Foundation of Greece


Workshops & Seminars
                       
2007 - present      Translational seminar in functional neuroimaging. University of Pennsylvania, Medical 
                               School, Department of Neurology, Center for Functional Neuroimaging
            
2009 – October     Goal-directed Decision Making Workshop. Princeton University, Department of Psychology 
                                (Princeton, NJ, October 23-24, 2009)

2008 – July     	Principles of Repurposing. Santa Fe Institute workshop (Santa Fe, NM, July 14-16, 2008)

2007 – August     	Analogies: Integrating Multiple Cognitive Abilities. Workshop held during the 29th         
                               Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (Nashville, TN, August 1st, 2007).

2005 – June	Advanced Training Institute in Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging at the Massachusetts General Hospital, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Harvard Medical School Athinoula A. Martinos NMR Center for Biomedical Imaging (Boston, MA, June 19-24, 2005). 


Current Memberships and Professional Affiliations

– American Psychological Association (APA), 
APA, Member
APA, Division 2 – Society for the Teaching of Psychology
APA, Division 3 – Experimental Psychology
	APA, Division 24 – Society for Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology
	APA, Division 32 – Humanistic Psychology

– Association for Psychological Science (APS) – Member 

– Psychonomic Society – Affiliate Member 

– The Cognitive Science Society (CSS) – Member
 
– The Cognitive Neuroscience Society (CNS) – Member

– Society for Neuroscience (SfN) – Member 

– Women in Cognitive Science – Member 

– Philadelphia Neuropsychological Society - Member

– International Association of Applied Psychology (IAAP) – Member

– Eastern Psychological Association (EPA) – Member


Ad Hoc Reviewer

Psychological Science – Article submissions reviewer

American Psychologist – Article submissions reviewer

Psychonomic Bulletin & Review – Article submissions reviewer

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition – Article submissions reviewer

Memory & Cognition – Article submissions reviewer

Acta Psychologica – Article submissions reviewer

Journal of Neurolinguistics – Article submissions reviewer

Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology – Article submissions reviewer

Journal of Creative Behavior – Article submissions reviewer 

John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Higher Education – Cognitive Psychology textbooks reviewer

Blackwell Publishing, Textbooks – Cognitive Science textbooks reviewer

Worth Publishers – Psychology textbooks reviewer

Cognitive Science Society – Conference submissions reviewer


Committee Service

2006			Temple University – Distinguished Teaching Award Selection Committee