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Galina V. Paramei is Professor Emerita. In 2008–2024 she was Professor of Psychology at Liverpool Hope University (UK). She graduated from and obtained her PhD (1983) in General Psychology at Lomonosov Moscow State University (Russia). In 1992–1994, she was a Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation at the Ruhr-University Bochum (Germany). Her Habilitation (postdoctorate degree) in Cognitive Psychology (2003) is from Ruhr-University Bochum (Germany) and Venia legendi in Cognitive Neuroscience (2003) from Otto-von-Guericke University of Magdeburg (Germany).

Prof. Paramei's specialty is in color vision psychophysics and in color cognition. In her psycholinguistic studies, in particular, she explores color naming and color categorization in her native Russian and cross-cultural differences with English, her second language. Her lasting cooperation with colleagues from Italy (Verona, Florence, Sassari) resulted in publications on Italian color lexicon and on denotative meaning of basic “Italian blues”. Further, she studies effects of bilingualism on changes in semantic representations of ‘blue’ categories in both languages of Italian-English bilinguals.

Prof. Paramei (co)authored about 120 papers in international journals, books and conference proceedings. She co-edited two acclaimed collective monographs on color cognition: Anthropology of Color: Interdisciplinary Multilevel Modeling (2007) (https://benjamins.com/catalog/z.137) and Progress in Colour Studies: Cognition, Language and Beyond (2018) (https://benjamins.com/catalog/z.217). Recently she published a comprehensive review Language of Color (in the Modern Age; https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/cultural-history-of-color-in-the-modern-age-9781474273367/).

Since 1999 Prof. Paramei is a member of the International Colour Vision Society, currently (2022–2026) as a member of the ICVS Board of Directors. In 2008 she joined The Colour Group (Great Britain) and co-organized several annual CGGB meetings (2010, 2012, 2015). In 2015–2025, she was Co-Chairwoman of the Study Group 'Language of Colour' of the International Colour Association (AIC) (https://aic-color.org/sg-lc). From 2022, she serves as a Senior Editor of Color Research and Application being co-editor of the Color Cognition Special Collection (https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1002/(ISSN)1520-6378.ColorCognition).

Prof. Paramei is a regular participant of PICS conferences. At PICS 2016 (London), she chaired the Programme Committee and at PICS 2022 (Tallinn) delivered a keynote Communicative need drives colour language refinement: The riches of ‘Italian blues’.