Karolina Krysinska, MA PhD, is a Research Fellow at the School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University. Karolina obtained her PhD in Psychology in 2001, and she has worked as a researcher, lecturer and psychologist in the field of mental health over the last 25 years. Before joining the School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, she worked at the Dementia Center for Research Collaboration and the Centre for Primary Health Care and Equity at the University of New South Wales, Sydney. In 2014-2015 Karolina was a Coordinator and a Senior Research Officer at the NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence in Suicide Prevention at the Black Dog Institute, UNSW, Sydney. She worked as a Post-doc Researcher at the KUL-University of Leuven, Belgium (2011-2014), psychologist at Tele-Onthaal (Tele-Help), Belgium (2011-2013), Research Officer at the University of Queensland, Brisbane (2008-2009), Research Fellow at the Griffith University, Brisbane (2004-2007) and Lecturer/Associate Professor at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Poland (1995-2004). Her research interests include dementia, suicide research and prevention, mental health, psychology of trauma, and psychology of religion.