Sophia Lazarova is a Junior Researcher at GATE Institute. Her work is primarily focused on the applications of Big Data and AI in early diagnostics of neurodegenerative disease and cognitive decline.

Sophia holds a Bachelor’s degree in Software Engineering from Sofia University and a Master’s degree in Cognitive Science from Ruhr University, Bochum. During her stay in Bochum, she was working as a research assistant in the Institut für Neuroinformatik (INI) where she was contributing to projects on learning, memory and decision making.