Antonios Kagialis was born in 1999 in Heraklion, Crete, Greece. He is in his final year as a master’s student in Neurosciences at the Medical School, University of Crete, Greece, and completed the undergraduate Psychology program at the University of Nicosia, Cyprus (GPA: 4.0).  He has received several academic distinctions and has co-authored 15 publications. He is the first Psi Chi NICE Chair (outside the USA) coordinating the implementation of a cross-cultural research project in over 25 countries. Since 2019, he has been working on several research projects funded by the Hellenic Foundation for Research and Innovation and a HORIZON 2020 MSCA project. His main research interests focus on fMRI studies of cognition and emotion in healthy volunteers and persons with neurological disorders. He is currently doing his research practicum in translational neuroimaging at the Phillips University of Marburg, Germany, analyzing event-related functional neuroimaging data of people with anxiety disorders. On June 6, he will be a presenter at a webinar for CE credit via the American Psychological Association titled “Conducting Global Research: Cross-Cultural Collaboration and Translating Research Measures”.