Livia Tomova

Cognitive Neuroscience

Ph.D, Research Fellow

University of Cambridge

Livia Tomova is a Research Fellow in Cognitive Neuroscience at University of Cambridge. She is interested in how loneliness, social isolation and stress affect the brain and mind, especially during adolescent development. Her PhD research at the Social, Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience Unit at University of Vienna focused on the effects of acute stress on neural correlates of empathy.

Tomova did her postdoctoral training in Cognitive Neuroscience at the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), investigating how deprivation of social needs affects the human brain. 

Livia Tomova is one of the Honorary Guests at the World Academic Forum Stockholm Summit 2022.