
Elizaveta Dimitrova
PhD Student
Contact details
Biography
Elizaveta joined the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience at King’s College London in 2025 as a PhD student funded by the MRC Doctoral Training Partnership in Biomedical Sciences. The aim of her PhD is to investigate the effectiveness of diagnosing and treating comorbid depression or anxiety in children and adolescents with post-traumatic stress disorder.
After completing her BSc Psychology at King's College London and her MSc Clinical Mental Health Sciences at UCL, Elizaveta worked as a research assistant on an NIHR and UCL funded clinical trial evaluating the effectiveness of a personalised treatment package for adults with learning disability and aggressive challenging behaviour.
Research Interests
- Child and adolescent mental health
- Post-traumatic stress disorder
- Epidemiology
- Causal inference
- Target trial emulation
Research Groups
Teaching
Elizaveta is a Graduate Teaching Assistant across various modules on the BSc Psychology programme.