Professor of Psychology & Director, Center for Applied Neuroscience
University of Cyprus, Cyprus
Fofi Constantinidou, Ph.D., CCC-SLP, CBIS, FASHA, FACRM, is Professor of Language Disorders and Clinical Neuropsychology, & Founding Director, Center for Applied Neuroscience, University of Cyprus. Prior to repatriating to Cyprus, she was Professor of Speech Pathology and Audiology at Miami University, Ohio, USA where she established the Miami University Sports Concussion Management Program. For over 25 years, her research, teaching, and clinical expertise center on acquired adult neurological disorders. Fofi’s innovative research focuses on the neurophysiological underpinnings of cognitive, linguistic, and psychosocial deficits resulting from acquired brain injury and aging, and more recently, long-COVID, and the development of effective neurorehabilitation modalities to improve patient outcomes. She has published and presented extensively in this area and has a 25-year extramural funding record as PI from the European Union, the National Institutes of Health (USA), the Cyprus Research & Innovation Foundation, and the industry (>11 million euros).
Prestigious awards include the Distinguished Researcher Award of the Cyprus Research & Innovation Foundation, and the 2023 Women in Rehabilitation Science Award by the American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine (ACRM). Fofi is an ASHA & ACRM Fellow with extensive professional service and leadership positions. She is the President Elect of ACRM and Deputy Chair of the European Speech and Language Therapy Association (2019+). She also served as President of the Cyprus Association of Registered Speech Language Pathologists (2019-2022).