Camila Ribeiro is a Research Assistant in the Department of Psychological Medicine at King’s College London (KCL), working within the Stress, Psychiatry, and Immunology (SPI) Lab. She is also a postgraduate student in Clinical Mental Health Sciences at University College London (UCL). She joined KCL as an honorary placement student and progressed to a Research Assistant role during her undergraduate degree. As a research assistant, Camila has contributed to several large-scale research projects focusing on improving engagement in biological mental health research among young people, stratified anti-inflammatory treatments for depression, and the therapeutic role of art on well-being.  

Research Interests

• Adolescent mental health and developmental psychopathology
• Biological psychiatry (e.g., inflammation, neuroimaging, biomarkers)
• Biopsychosocial approaches to mental health
• People with lived experience engagement and co-production in research

Expertise and Public Engagment

• Writer and editor for Inspire the Mind, a digital mental health magazine
• Presentation of research at British Association for Psychopharmacology (BAP) conferences
• Poster presentation at the Adolescent Mental Health and the Developing Mind conference