Ekaterina obtained her BA in Cognitive Studies at the St. Petersburg State University in Russia. She then enrolled into the MSc program in Cognitive Neuroscience at CIMeC (University of Trento). She joined the lab as a member of the UniTrento-SISSA joint program, working on her master thesis with Davide and Roberto Bottini.

In the lab, Ekaterina is studying the depth of unconscious semantic processing using psychophysics and computational semantic models.