Eva Kočovská

Biography

 Eva Kočovská is an Honorary Senior Research Fellow at Queen Mary University of London, UK and a Research Associate at the Gillberg Neuropsychiatry Centre, studying the role of vitamin D in the ESSENCE syndromes. She received a PhD in Psychology from the University of Glasgow (2014), holds a Certificate in Counselling Skills, COSCA, also from the University of Glasgow (2006) and a Postgraduate Diploma in Clinical Nutrition from the Roehampton University, UK (2016). Her PhD thesis:‘Gene-Environment Interaction in Autism: A Population Study of Risk Factors - vitamin D and methylmercury - for Autism Spectrum Disorders in the Faroe Islands’ was nominated for the ‘Outstanding Thesis Award’. Eva first studied chemistry at Charles University, Prague, received her doctorate in 1986, and then worked in pharmaceutical research on the synthesis of the anti-cancer antibiotics Daunomycin and Adriamycin. Eva has a wide ranging experience of working for a number of years with children and young adults with developmental impairments and delays, autism, behavioural and communication disorders, acquired brain injury (ABI), history of severe maltreatment and also with mothers and their babies, both in research and clinical settings. Eva is based in the UK and regularly visits Gothenburg. Her research is focused on the involvement of vitamin D, the immune system and microbiome in autism, ADHD and schizophrenia.

Research Interest

 developmental impairments and delays, autism, behavioural and communication disorders, acquired brain injury (ABI).