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Education

PhD Candidate, Centre for Positive Health Sciences, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, 2025 – Present
MSci Psychology: Neuroscience and Neuroimaging (First Class Honours), University of York, 2019 – 2023

Research Experience

Research Assistant, Centre for Positive Health Sciences, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Dublin, Ireland (2023 - Present)
- Forest4Youth (€5 500 000 funded by Interreg North-West Europe, EU, 2025 - 2028)
- PsyTales (€250 000 funded by Erasmus+ KA220, EU, 2024 - 2026)
- VNiC-Health (€300 000 funded by Research Ireland, 2023 - 2025)
Research Assistant, Department of Psychology, University of York, York, England (2020 - 2022)
- Research areas: face perception, language, eye-tracking, meaning

Publications

Valuing urban natural capital for health and resilience: A stakeholder-informed system dynamics model for Dublin

Clinton, M., Sinnott, F., Kaleta, B.., Campbell, S., Harper, A., Burke, J., & O’Keeffe, J. (2026). "Valuing urban natural capital for health and resilience: A stakeholder-informed system dynamics model for Dublin." Environmental Advances, 23, 100683. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envadv.2026.100683

Nature’s heart: a scoping review of the impact of nature-based interventions for cardiovascular and metabolic disease

Al Ghanim, S., Kaleta, B., Campbell, S., O’Keeffe, J., & Burke, J. (2025). "Nature’s heart: A scoping review of the impact of nature-based interventions for cardiovascular and metabolic disease." Journal of Public Health, 47(3). https://doi.org/10.1093/pubmed/fdaf074

Nature-based interventions: a systematic review of reviews

Kaleta, B., Campbell, S., O’Keeffe, J., & Burke, J. (2025). "Nature-based interventions: A systematic review of reviews." Frontiers in Psychology, 16. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1625294

Teaching Experience

MSc in Applied Positive Psychology Well-being and Health

Supervision Experience

Student Selected Research Project Supervisor, RCSI, 2024
- Project: Nature’s heart: A scoping review of the impact of nature-based interventions for cardiovascular and metabolic disease. * Resulted in publication: doi.org/10.1093/pubmed/fdaf074
Student Selected Research Project Supervisor, RCSI, 2024
- Project: Costs and Experiences of Green Prescriptions: A Scoping Review.

Committee Membership

Scientific Committee, European Conference on Positive Psychology 2026, Dublin, Ireland

Conference Presentations

Invited Talks

Panellist on Environmental Education, World Conference on Forests and Parks for Public Health, Luxembourg, 2025

Oral Presentations

European Conference on Positive Psychology, Dublin, Ireland, 2026
Psychology, Health and Medicine Annual Conference, Dublin, Ireland, 2026
IV Global Summit Science, Nature and Health, online, 2026
Positive Health Summit, Dublin, Ireland, 2026
Positive Psychology in a Complex World, Lübeck, Germany, 2025
Psychology, Health and Medicine Annual Conference, Belfast, Northern Ireland, 2025
Positive Health Summit, Dublin, Ireland, 2025
European Conference on Positive Psychology, Innsbruck, Austria, 2024
York Science Conference, York, England, 2020

Poster Presentations

Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland Research Day, Dublin, Ireland, 2025
Positive Health Summit, Dublin, Ireland, 2025
Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland Research Day, Dublin, Ireland, 2024
European Conference on Positive Psychology, Innsbruck, Austria, 2024

Public Outreach & Engagement

Let’s Talk Science Festival, Rediscovery Centre, Dublin, Ireland, 2024
York Festival of Ideas, York, England, 2022
YorNight, York, England, 2020

Relevant Skills

Technical: EEG data collection & analysis, Eye-tracking
Statistical software: R / RStudio, SPSS
Languages: English (C2), Slovak (Native), Czech (B2)

Hobbies

Discovery: Philosophy, Psychology, Astronomy, Science Fiction
Expression: Guitar, Singing, Cooking, Tabletop Role-Playing Games
Recreation: Hiking, Canoeing, Stargazing, Cloudspotting, Floorball

Braňo Kaleta

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