Principal Investigator

Kalina Christoff Hadjiilieva is a Professor of Psychology at the University of British Columbia. Prof. Christoff Hadjiilieva is an expert on the cognitive neuroscience of human thought, from spontaneous thought phenomena such as mind-wandering, daydreaming, and creativity; to goal-directed thought, including deliberate reasoning and problem-solving; to clinical alterations in thought and their implications for human wellbeing. Their work also examines the neurocognitive mechanism of introspection, meta-cognition, meditation, and different forms of self-experience and self-regulation. Prof. Christoff Hadjiilieva’s research seeks to understand these mental phenomena through the dynamic interplay between large-scale brain systems, including the default, salience, and frontoparietal control networks.

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ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2841-8647

Regarding the pronunciation of the second half of my last name, “Hadjiilieva”:
It’s a compound name with two parts: “hadji” and “ilieva”. All the “i”s are pronounced as the “i” in “taxi”. The stress in “ilieva” falls on the second “i”.
Listen to the audio file of how I pronounce it, with “Christoff” in front: Hear my name.
I say the full last name twice in the audio file, the first time with a slight break between “hadji” and “ilieva”, to make it easier to hear them both. The second time I say the two of them fused together, the way they’d be said by a native speaker.