2026-2027 Programme Participants
Iana Staroverova
iana.staroverova
bioinnovate.ie
Iana Staroverova is a psychophysiologist and data analyst. She was born in 1993 in Russia and graduated from Lomonosov Moscow State University, Faculty of Psychology, Department of Psychophysiology. After graduation, she worked for four years in the Department of Neurophysiology and Psychosomatics at a private medical clinic, where she specialized in electroencephalography (EEG) and biofeedback (BFB) therapy. In 2017, she founded a startup in the field of post-stroke rehabilitation. The project focused on developing a device for restoring hand mobility using electrical muscle stimulation combined with gamified biofeedback.
From 2015 to 2021, Iana worked as a scientific editor at Eksmo, the largest publishing house in Russia, where she edited books on psychology, neuropsychology, and psychiatry. In addition, after graduating from university, she began a private psychotherapy practice using a cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) approach, which she continues to this day. In 2020, due to COVID-19, she left the startup team and began a professional retraining program in data science. In 2022, following the outbreak of the war in Ukraine, she left Russia and joined an AI startup as a data analyst. She currently works as a data engineer at an international medtech company.
