Current Position: Junior Research Professor, Webster University Vienna Country of Origin: Greece Email:  etzemou22[at]webster.edu

Courses taught at Webster

• The Psychology of Religion
• Introduction of Psychology
• Research Methods
• Cognitive Psychology
• Senior Seminar on Psychological Vulnerability to Psychosis

Education

• PhD (University of Birmingham, 2002)
• MA (University of Nottingham, 1998)
• BA (American University of Greece, 1995)
• PGCert

Background and Facts

Dr. Tzemou was born in Athens, where she studied for her first degree in Psychology at the American College of Greece (Deree College). She then moved to the UK, where she acquired a Postgraduate Certificate and an MA in counselling (University of Nottingham) and where she undertook doctoral research in the area of psychopathology (University of Birmingham). Her thesis is on Cognitive Vulnerability in Manic Depression.

Her work so far has been in mental health, research, and academia. After graduation, she worked as a graduate psychologist for the Day Hospital of the psychiatric clinic of the University of Athens. Research-wise she started to work as an assistant on a Europe-wide research project for the WHO examining school children’s attitudes to drugs and evaluating a prevention programme in high risk areas. More recently, she worked as a research fellow for the Medical School of the University of Birmingham (UK) on a qualitative study looking at the way an Early Intervention programme for Psychosis was being applied, by different primary care NHS trusts. In the years before she moved to Austria, Dr Tzemou worked as a teaching assistant for the University of Birmingham and as a lecturer for Nottingham Trent University (UK).

Dr. Tzemou’s research interests have centred around social cognition in severe psychopathology, a topic that she has approached from a positivistic perspective. Recently, she has developed an interest in social constructivism and social cognition through the appropriation of social structures and institutions. She is currently working with a group of colleagues from the UK and Holland on a Memory Work project on the experience of loosing faith.