Katharina (Kathy) is a psychologist, interested in decision-making, women's health and the psychosocial impact of life-limiting and life-threatening illness. She completed her BSc in Psychology (First Class, with Honours) at Sheffield Hallam University, and consecutively joined The University of Sheffield. First as a student on the MSc in Psychological Research Methods (awarded with Distinction) in the Department of Psychology, then as an interdisciplinary PhD student in Health Psychology/Medicine at the Sheffield Institute for Translational Neuroscience (SiTran). 

Kathy worked as a Research Associate on the Cancer, Fertility and Me Study while completing her PhD; she presented the study’s findings in a symposium on the utility of decision-aids in Onco-Fertility at the IPOS World Congress of Psycho-Oncology in Hong Kong (October/November, 2018).

She is a member of the British Psychological Society as well as the International Psycho-Oncoloy Society (IPOS). Her publications are in the areas of health psychology, psycho-oncology and psychological therapies.