Research Team
Vassiliki Paika
PhD Psychologist
Post-doctoral fellow

Vasiliki Paika is a post-doctoral researcher in the present research project. Graduated from the School of Psychology of the University of Rethymnon, Crete (2005).
She was awarded her Doctoral Thesis entitled “Clinical features and personality traits associated with psychological distress and quality of life in people with colorectal cancer” (2012) by the School of Medicine, University of Ioannina (2012).
Vasiliki has published 8 papers in international peer-reviewed journals with 146 citations and an h-index of 7.


The project "Assessing and enhancing resilience to depression in people with long term medical conditions in the era of the current Greek social and financial crisis (ASSERT-DEP)”has been co-financed by the European Economic Area (EEA) Financial Mechanism 2009-2014 (EEA GR07/3767) and National funds as part of the program “Dissimilarity, Inequality and Social Integration".