Korda, Alexandra
KORDA, ALEXANDRA
I am a postdoc researcher and group leader at the Translational Psychiatry at ZIP, UKSH in Lübeck, Germany. I obtained a bachelor degree in Applied Mathematics and Physical Sciences, an M.Sc. in Biomedical Engineering, and my PhD in Oculomotor signal analysis from the Electrical Engineering Department at the National Technical University of Athens. The last 8 years I have focused on psychiatry research and analysis of multiple modalities, such as text, speech, video, and brain MRI.
My recent publications are:
- Alexandra I. Korda*, Christina Andreou*, Anne Ruef, Lisa Hahn, André Schmidt, Udo Dannlowski, Lana Kambeitz-Ilankovic, Dominic B Dwyer, Joseph Kambeitz, Julian Wenzel, Stephan Ruhrmann, Stephen J Wood, Raimo KR Salokangas, Christos Pantelis, Frauke Schultze-Lutter, Eva Meisenzahl, Paolo Brambilla, Pierluigi Selvaggi, Alessandro Bertolino, Jarmo Hietala, Rachel Upthegrove, Paris Alexandros Lalousis, Anita Riecher-Rössler, Christos Davatzikos, Rebekka Lencer, Nikolaos Koutsouleris, Stefan Borgwardt, and the PRONIA Consortium. Brain texture as a marker of transdiagnostic clinical profiles in patients with recent-onset psychosis and depression. Nature Mental Health, 2024, 2 (1), 76-87. DOI: 10.1038/s44220-023-00168-z.
- Lea Mineur, Svea Horstmann, Berat Arslan, Christina Andreou, Marco Heide, Sofia Eickhoff, Mihai Avram, Kaja Berg, Kristina Sophie Hedelt, Léon Franzen, Frederike Buschmann, Frederike Schröpfer, Helena Victoria Rogg, Bartosz Zurowski, Heinz Handels, Stefan Borgwardt, Alexandra Korda*. Neutral sentiment on patient's speech can predict the depressive symptom severity transdiagnostically, Journal of Affective Disorders, 119990, 2025
- Giorgos Giannakakis, Anastasios Roussos, Christina Andreou, Stefan Borgwardt and Alexandra I. Korda. Stress detection based on facial action units, machine, deep learning and explainable artificial intelligence, Computers and Programs in Biomedicine, 259, 108507, 2025
- Naici Liu, Rebekka Lencer, Christina Andreou, Mihai Avram, Heinz Handels, Wenjing Zhang, Sun Hui, Chengmin Yang, Stefan Borgwardt, John A Sweeney, Su Lui*, Alexandra I Korda*, Altered brain complexity in first-episode antipsychotic-naïve patients with schizophrenia: A whole-brain voxel-wise study, NeuroImage: Clinical, 44, 2024.
Awards and honours
- Signals 2021 Best paper award: Recognition of Blinks Activity Patterns during Stress Conditions Using CNN and Markovian Analysis, Signals 2021, 2(1), 55-71
- UKSH Foundation Award 2022 for the project entitled “Intelligent health solutions for digitally informed psychiatry”, 10,000€ for technical equipment.
- Excellence Award ECNP (European College of Neuropsycopharmacology) 2022 for the abstract entitled “Transdiagnostic individualized brain texture changes that are associated with symptom severity using contrast feature map”
- Schizophrenia International Research Society (SIRS) Early Career Award 2023.
- German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) Congress travel fund 2023 for the Early Intervention in Mental Health (IEPA’14) conference in Lausanne, July 2023.
- Symposium proposal accepted for presentation at ECNP 2024: “Towards diagnostic digital health technologies in psychiatry.”.
- HEALTHINF 2025, Best paper award 2025: Bag-Level Multiple Instance Learning for Acute Stress Detection from Video Data.
Number of peer-reviewed original articles=47 and number of peer-reviewed review articles=2, internationally peer-reviewed, 1 book chapter-GoogleScholar H-index =15, 13 as 1st author; >652 citations, starting 2016.