Anu Realo Ph.D.

Anu Realo, Ph.D., is a personality and cross-cultural psychologist. She is Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Warwick, the United Kingdom and a Visiting Professor at the University of Tartu, Estonia. During her career, she has been a visiting professor and scholar at several universities and institutes for advanced studies in Belgium, Finland, Iceland, the Netherlands, Sweden, and Switzerland.

Her research focuses on cultural and individual variation in personality traits, subjective well-being, values, and social capital; she has collaborated widely with researchers from across a range of disciplines and cultures and has published numerous articles in high-quality peer-reviewed international journals. She is active in public engagement work on topics relating to her research; her work has been extensively covered and cited by national and international news media.

She is a member of the Academia Europaea and the Estonian Academy of Sciences. In 2010, she received the National Science Award of the Republic of Estonia in social sciences for her studies on personality and stereotypes in a cross-cultural perspective. In 2016, she was awarded the Order of the White Star (IV Class) by the President of Estonia for her outstanding service and contribution to the Republic of Estonia.

Anu splits her time between the UK and Estonia. When she is not working, she is reading books, cooking, chatting and walking with family and friends. She is addicted to coffee and travel, passionate about all the arts and spending time outdoors.