Silia Vitoratou, PhD
Principal investigator, King’s College London S-Five study
Senior Lecturer, IoPPN, KCL, UK
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Silia is a senior lecturer (associate professor) in Psychometrics and Measurement and leader of the Psychometrics Lab, at the Biostatistics & Health Informatics department, IoPPN, KCL, UK. Silia holds a BSc degree in Mathematics, an MSc degree in Biostatistics, and a PhD in Bayesian model comparison for IRT models. Silia is an expert in psychometrics and various methods used in applied biostatistics such as longitudinal data, survival analysis, and structural equation models, among others.
Silia initiated in 2017 and currently chairs the Misophonia Clinical Academic Research Group and is the principal investigator of the King’s College London S-Five study. The S-Five study aims to develop robust, reliable, and valid assessments for misophonia, to study the prevalence of misophonia in the UK and overseas, to assess the misophonic experience cross-culturally and to facilitate research treatment development for misophonia. The S-Five study is currently expanding through collaborations with academic institutions internationally (such as Germany, Greece, India, Iran, Italy, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Singapore, and USA).
Notable Published Works
• A nomological network for misophonia in two German samples using the S-Five model for misophonia [December 2022]
• Emotion processes predicting outbursts and functional impact in misophonia [July 2022]
• Item Response Theory Investigation of Misophonia Auditory Triggers [October 2021]
Additional Resources
Follow Dr. Vitoratou on:
Facebook: @SfiveMisophonia and @psychometricsKCL
Twitter: @SVitoratou, @sfive_ and @psychometricKCL