Galina V. Paramei is a Professor of the Department of Psychology at the Liverpool Hope University. She obtained her PhD in 1983 at the Lomonosov Moscow State University.
Her research focuses primarily on colour vision: modelling colour perception in variant forms of colour vision; chromatic discrimination across the lifespan; changes in colour appearance caused by luminance variation; cross-cultural and bilingual studies of colour naming and colour categorisation. Another (non-mainstream) line of her research is related to cognitive mechanisms of perception of emotional facial expressions and of aesthetic appraisal of visual stimuli.