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'''Gretty Mizrahi Mirdal''' (born Gretty Kazes) is Emeritus Professor of Psychology at the [[University of Copenhagen]], and was the director of the [[Paris Institute for Advanced Study]] from 2012 to 2018. |
'''Gretty Mizrahi Mirdal''' (born Gretty Kazes) is Emeritus Professor of Psychology at the [[University of Copenhagen]], and was the director of the [[Paris Institute for Advanced Study]] from 2012 to 2018. |
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Gretty Mizrahi Mirdal (born Gretty Kazes) is Emeritus Professor of Psychology at the University of Copenhagen, and was the director of the Paris Institute for Advanced Study from 2012 to 2018.
Biography
She was born and grew up in Istanbul, Turkey, but has lived all her adult life in Denmark. After graduating from high school in Istanbul, she went to the US, and received a B.A. degree at Smith College, Northampton, Mass. She did her post-graduate work and clinical training at the University of Copenhagen. She holds a Doctor of Philosophy degree form the University of Copenhagen, and she is licensed in both clinical and health psychology by the Danish Psychological Association.
Academic career
Her research and teaching have centred mainly on the areas of psychosomatics, post-traumatic stress, and migration psychology. She has done research on the long-term impact of migration and transcultural integration on mental and physical health; on the psychological treatment of chronic disease; and on post-traumatic stress reactions. She has been affiliated with the Psychology Department of the University of Copenhagen throughout her career, and has worked as guest researcher in hospital departments, mainly at the University Hospital in Copenhagen. She is presently Professor Emeritus at the Institute of Psychology at the University of Copenhagen.
She was the director of the Paris Institute for Advanced Study from 2012 to 2018. Presently she directs the "Brain, Culture and Society" programme at the Paris Institute for Advanced Study. She is a member of the Supervisory Board of the FMSH (Fondation Maison des Sciences de l'Homme) and of the Faculty for the Social and Human Sciences of the Université de Paris.
She has chaired the section for Humanities and Social Sciences for the Synergy Grants of the European Research Council (Brussels); the Standing Committee for the Humanities of the European Science Foundation; the European Research Council’s Panel on "The human mind and its complexity"; the committee for Junior Researchers of the Institut Universitaire de France;[1] the Scientific Committee for the programmes of basic research in the humanities at the Agence Nationale de la Recherche. She has also been a member of the board of the Grundforskningsfond (Danish National Foundation which grants centres of excellence), and of the Scientific Council of the CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique).
Honours: She is a fellow of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters and Officier de l'ordre des Palmes Académiques.
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