Biography:

 

Kalina Christoff Hadjiilieva is a Professor of Psychology at the University of British Columbia. Prof. Christoff Hadjiilieva is an expert on the cognitive neuroscience of human thought, from spontaneous thought phenomena such as mind-wandering, daydreaming, and creativity; to goal-
directed thought, including deliberate reasoning and problem-solving; to clinical alterations in thought and their implications for human wellbeing. Their work also examines the neurocognitive mechanism of introspection, meta-cognition, meditation, and different forms of self-experience and self-regulation. Prof. Christoff Hadjiilieva’s research seeks to understand these mental phenomena through the dynamic interplay between large-scale brain systems, including the default, salience, and frontoparietal control networks.