My research focuses primarily on colour vision: modelling colour perception in variant forms of colour vision; chromatic discrimination across the lifespan; changes in colour appearance caused by luminance variation; cross-cultural and bilingual studies of colour naming and colour categorisation. Another (non-mainstream) line of my research is related to cognitive mechanisms of perception of emotional facial expressions and of aesthetic appraisal of visual stimuli.

EDUCATION / QUALIFICATIONS

2003 Privat-Dozentin (~Assoc. Prof.): Cognitive Neuroscience, Otto-von-Guericke University of Magdeburg, Germany

2003 Dr. habil./Venia legendi: Cognitive Psychology Institute of Psychology, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany

1983 PhD ("Kandidat nauk"): General Psychology; Supervisor: Prof. E. N. Sokolov, Faculty of Psychology, Moscow Lomonosov  State University, Moscow, USSR

1979 "Diplom" (BSc + MSc) with Distinction: Psychology; Faculty of Psychology, Moscow Lomonosov State University, Moscow, USSR

CAREER HISTORY

2008-present Professor, Department of Psychology, Liverpool Hope University, UK

2007              Senior Lecturer, Department of Psychology, Liverpool Hope University, UK

2005-2007     Interim Professor in General Psychology, Institute of Psychology, Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany

2004-2005     Fellow, Hanse Institute for Advanced Study, Delmenhorst, Germany

2003-2004     Privat-Dozentin (~ Assoc. Prof.) Institute of Medical Psychology, University of Magdeburg, Germany

2002 Invited   Visiting Professor, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil

1995-2001     Research Associate, Leibniz Institute for Occupational Physiology at the University of Dortmund, Germany

1994-1995     Senior Lecturer, Department of General Psychology, Moscow Lomonosov State University, Moscow, Russia

1992-1994     Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Institute of Psychology, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany

1989-1991     Research Associate, Department of Psychology and Knowledge Engineering, Moscow Lomonosov State University, Moscow, USSR