Eleni Kroupi

Eleni (PhD) is a certified Holotropic Breathwork facilitator (by GTT - Grof Transpersonal Training) and has facilitated workshops in Switzerland, Spain, Poland, Finland, Greece and Germany.

She is also a certified Trance Dance® facilitator and a SoulCollage® facilitator organising and facilitating workshops in Barcelona. 

Eleni is a Senior Neuroscience Research Engineer and Project Manager at Starlab Barcelona SL. She received her PhD on emotion recognition from brain and peripheral physiological signals from École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland, in 2014, and worked as a postdoctoral researcher in the department of Psychology in Fribourg Switzerland. She loves using neuroscientific tools (such as electroencephalogram) to demonstrate the therapeutic effect of breathwork and psychedelics on the human brain. Her research interests include EEG signal processing, time-series complexity, affective computing, machine learning for diagnosis, prognosis and treatment response. She has been partner in various EU-funded projects (e.g., LUMINOUS, STIPED, AIMS-2-TRIALS, EmotionalCities). She is a co-author of 31 peer-reviewed scientific publications (15 journal articles, 16 full conference papers), and has supervised four master’s theses, more than ten semester projects or internships, and reviewed one PhD thesis. She has taught the “Image and Video processing” and “Media security” lab sessions in EPFL for four years, and has given several talks in various public outreach events (scientific conferences, workshops, artistic events).

Her passion is consciousness and the human potential of it, studying the effect of expanded states of consciousness in the brain and accompanying people through combining holotropic breathwork® with shamanic trance dance® and SoulCollage® so that they find their own path in life discovering the huge healing potential of non-ordinary states of consciousness. She speaks Greek, English, French, and Spanish.