Alkistis has a BSc in Psychology from UCL and an MSc in Clinical Neuropsychiatry at KCL.

During her MSc she worked at a neurorehabilitation ward at Queen Mary’s Hospital and completed a dissertation on Anorexia Nervosa.

She has completed several volunteering projects in the mental health sector (e.g., crisis counselling and ABA tutoring).

Alkistis initially joined Katlab as a research assistant in September 2016, and then went on to complete her PhD entitled “Understanding the Body from the Inside: The Role of Interoceptive Belief Updating in Anorexia Nervosa” under the supervision of Prof. Fotopoulou, Dr Koukoutsakis and Dr Jenkinson.

Contact: zcjtasa@ucl.ac.uk 

Publications: 

Saramandi, A., Au, Y. K., KOUKOUTSAKIS, A., Zheng, C. Y., Godwin, A., Bianchi-Berthouze, N., …Fotopoulou, A. (2023). Tactile Emoticons: Conveying Social Emotions and Intentions with Manual and Robotic Tactile Feedback During Social Media Communications. PsyArXiv. Link

Saramandi, A., Crucianelli, L., KOUKOUTSAKIS, A., Nisticò, V., Baiza, A., Goeta, D., … Fotopoulou, A. (2022). Belief updating about Interoception and Body Size Estimation in Anorexia Nervosa. PsyArXiv. Link

Crucianelli, L., Demartini, B., Goeta, D., Nisticò, V., Saramandi, A., Bertelli, S., … & Fotopoulou, A. (2021). The anticipation and perception of affective touch in women with and recovered from anorexia nervosa. Neuroscience, 464, 143-155.

Symeon, C., Isaacs-Itua, A., & Saramandi, A. (2020). 8 Functional neurological disorder (FND) patients’ experience of healthcare interventions.

Beck, B., Saramandi, A., Ferrè, E. R., & Haggard, P. (2020). Which way is down? Visual and tactile verticality perception in expert dancers and non-experts. Neuropsychologia, 146, 107546.