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Dr. Silia Vitoratou is an Associate Professor in Psychometrics and Measurement at King's College London's Department of Biostatistics & Health Informatics within the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience (IoPPN). She leads the Psychometrics & Measurement Lab and the S-Five research project on misophonia. Her research focuses on psychometric methodology, latent variable models, Bayesian statistics, and applications in mental health and neurology. She holds degrees from the University of Crete (BSc Mathematics), National and Kapodestrian University of Athens (MSc Biostatistics), and Athens University of Economics (PhD Bayesian model comparison).
Her expertise spans misophonia mechanisms, autism assessment, and cross-cultural validation of psychological tools. She teaches advanced statistical modeling courses and supervises over five MSc/BSc projects annually. She is a member of the Psychometric Society and co-founded the #tutorpool education initiative. Current projects include autism phenotype measurement bias and NIHR fellowships in neurology and psychology.
Recent research highlights include UK misophonia prevalence studies, ALS caregiver distress models, and validation of mental health questionnaires across cultures. Her work addresses measurement invariance in autism screening and develops psychometric tools for sound sensitivity disorders.
