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Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Dr. Roberta Galizia is an Italian registered psychologist with an international MSc, a certified sex counselor, and a PhD researcher with honors specializing in couples’ sexual desire and clinical psychology, with extensive international experience across Europe and North America. In addition to her role as a collaborator in the Research and Training Area of the Institute of Clinical Sexology of Rome, Dr. Galizia serves as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at the Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia (UBC). At the UBC Sexual Health Research Lab, she holds a research award from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) for her work on developing one of the first comprehensive and accessible dyadic treatments for couples experiencing distress related to sexual desire discrepancy, for which she has already successfully secured an additional Research Grant from the European Society for Sexual Medicine. Roberta Galizia is deeply committed to developing accessible and evidence-based treatments aimed at improving the relational and sexual well-being of couples and diverse relational configurations.