Katya is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow and Lecturer at the Centre for Healthy Brain Ageing (CHeBA), within the Discipline of Psychiatry & Mental Health. Her work focuses on modifiable lifestyle factors associated with increased risk of dementia and identifying behavioural phenotypes of very early dementia. She focuses on how older adults’ perceptions of their own cognitive and functional abilities relate to their risk of dementia. Additionally, Katya examines the connection between individuals’ attitudes towards ageing and their cognitive health, as well as how depression and anxiety may influence these relationships.