Biljana Gjoneska

Biljana Gjoneska (MD, PhD) holds a medical degree from “Ss. Cyril and Methodius” University of Skopje, and a doctoral degree in psychology and social neuroscience from “Sapienza” University of Rome. She works as Research Associate at the Macedonian Academy of Sciences and Arts (MASA), on a multidisciplinary area that connects the domains of Neurethics, Neuropolitics, Social psychology and Social Neuroscience. She was elected as a national representative in the first edition of the Young Physician Leadership Program (2011, IAP), and marks decennial interest in the subject of Leadership from a practical (managerial) and a research (scientific) perspective. As a national representative, she has served in a capacity of national coordinator for European projects (funded by the EU COST), ethics director in an international psychological organization (Psychological Science Accelerator), and a leader of national research groups in large multinational studies. As a scientific researcher she has published on the topic of leadership in several academic outlets, including Royal Society of Open Science. Other important venues that covered her work include: Nature, Lancet, Frontiers in Public Health, and Frontiers in Psychology.