Katya Rubia BA, PhD

Katya Rubia is Prof of Cognitive Neuroscience at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King’s College London, UK, where she heads the Section of Developmental Neuroimaging at the Child Psychiatry Department. Prof Rubia studied at the University Complutense Madrid and was further trained within her PhD and post-doc periods in Neurology, Neuropsychology, and Cognitive Neuroscience at the Ludwig’s Maximilians-University in Munich and at the University of Amsterdam.

Since 1995 she works at King’s College London. She uses magnetic resonance imaging to understand normal development of cognitive functions and their abnormalities in developmental childhood disorders, in particular Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) but also related childhood disorders such as autism, conduct disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder and childhood abuse.