Clàudia Aymerich is a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience at King’s College London. She also works as an Honorary Clinical Fellow in child and adolescent psychiatry at the South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust.

Clàudia completed her medical training at the Autonomous University of Barcelona and Pompeu Fabra University, and her specialist psychiatry training at Basurto University Hospital in Bilbao, Spain. She earned a PhD (“Cum Laude”) in preventive approaches to psychotic disorders from the Basque Country University and also holds an MSc in Addictive Disorders from the University of Barcelona.

After completing her specialization, she was awarded the Post-MIR Scholarship by the Biobizkaia Health Research Institute, which enabled her to combine clinical practice with various research projects focused on the treatment and prevention of psychotic disorders. She has published over 20 academic papers in peer-reviewed journals and has presented her work at national and international conferences. In 2022, she received the Emerging Investigator Award from the Spanish Society of Psychiatry and Mental Health.

Most recently, she was awarded an Advanced Training Grant from the Alicia Koplowitz Foundation, which will support her work as a psychiatrist and researcher at King’s College London over the next several years.

Research interests

• Early intervention in psychotic disorders
• Mental disorders prevention
• Child and adolescent psychiatry
• Meta-analytic procedures