Yulia Kovas


Yulia Kovas is a Russian-British geneticist and psychologist, active in the United Kingdom. She received British Academy Wiley Prize in Psychology in 2012.
Yulia Kovas received bachelor's degrees in literature and language and psychology as well as a master's degree in genetics from St. Petersburg University. She was a teacher in London from 1993–1996 and became a researcher at the Social Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Center at King's College London from 2003–2005. She became a teacher at Birkbeck College at the University of London in 2005.
She has been Head of the International Center for Research in Human Development at the University of Tomsk in Tomsk, Russia since 2014. She is Professor of Genetics and Psychology at Goldsmiths at the University of London in the United Kingdom.

Awards and grants

In 2011 she was awarded the Mega Grant for Leading International Scientists worth £3,000,000 from the Government of the Russian Federation. She has received the Goldsmiths Peake Award, the Wiley Prize in Psychology from the Awards of the British Academy, the APS Janet Taylor Spence Award, the D.I. Mendeleev Medal from Tomsk State University and the Russian Academy of Education Award.

Selected bibliography