LIKHANOV Maxim

Status
Post-doctorant.e
Team
ATYPICS : Typical and atypical Cognition in Social Context/ Cognition Typique et Atypique en Contexte Social

Education

  • Specialist (BSc) in Theoretical and Fundamental Linguistics (2015); Philological faculty, Tomsk state university, Russia
  • PhD in linguistics (2019); Philological faculty, Tomsk state university, Russia. Doctoral thesis “Communicative genre of excursion mark: communicative-pragmatic aspect” publicly defended on 01.03.2019

Academic and research positions

  • April 2025 - present: Researcher in advanced statistics
    Centre de Recherche en Psychologie et Neurosciences (CRPN), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), France
     
  • December 2022 – February 2025: Postdoctoral researcher
    State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China
     
  • August 2021- October 2022: Research Director/postdoctoral researcher
    Centre for Educational Neuroscience, ITMO University, Saint-Petersburg, Russia
     
  • January 2020 - September 2022: Lecturer
    Department of Psychotherapy and Psychological Counselling, Psychology faculty, Tomsk State University, Tomsk, Russia
     
  • January 2018– July 2021: Senior Researcher
    Applied cognitive psychology and neuroscience research unit, Centre for Cognitive Investigations, Sirius University of Science and Technology, Sochi, Russia
     
  • September 2016 – March 2017: Intern/doctoral student (via Erasmus Plus scheme)
    Psychology department, Goldsmiths, University of London, London, UK
     
  • April 2016- December 2017: Teaching coordinator and research assistant
    International Centre for Research in Human Development, Tomsk State University, Tomsk, Russia
     
  • September – November 2012: Intern/kindergarten teacher (via AIESEC in Poland scheme)
    The Faculty of Economics Maria Curie-SkƂodowska University, Lublin, Poland

 

Individual funding and awards

  • “Credibility in Neuroscience Team Award” as a member of #EEGManyLabs team (2023);
  • PI for the project in ITMO Priority 2030 program "Searching for effective measures to reduce anxiety, professional burnout and improve well-being of ITMO students" (February 2022-December 2022);
  • My postdoc at ITMO was funded by the grant via the programme Fellowship & Professorship ITMO University scheme (postdoc track; 2021-2022);
  • Erasmus Plus grant for a six-month internship at Goldsmiths University of London (2016-2017);
  • Oxford Fund Russia Scholarship - Winner 2012-2015


Websites: 
Research: ORCID, ResearchGate, OSF, Google Scholar, Personal website
Personal: LinkedIn, Twitter/X, Bluesky
 

Publications

Overall, I contributed to 39 papers that are indexed in WOS/Scopus, with 10 papers as a first author. There are at least 21 papers published in Q1 journals (Scopus) and the overall citation percentile median is 65. 

Selected publications:

  1. Likhanov, M., Bartseva, K., Soldatova, E., & Kovas, Y. (2025). Unfolding Nostalgia: Spatial Visualization, Nostalgia, and Well-Being. Behavioral Sciences, 15(12), 1669. https://doi.org/10.3390/bs15121669
  2. Likhanov, M., Wang, F., Lyu, J., Wang, L., & Zhou, X. (2024). A special contribution from spatial ability to math word problem solving: Evidence from structural equation modelling and network analysis. Intelligence, 107, 101875. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.intell.2024.101875
  3. Ma#*, M., Likhanov*, M., & Zhou, X. (2024). Number sense‐arithmetic link in Grade 1 and Grade 2: A case of fluency. British Journal of Educational Psychology, bjep.12693. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjep.12693 (*equal contribution; # PhD Student)
  4. Likhanov*, M., Zakharov*, I., Awofala, A., Ogundele, O., Selita, F., Kovas, Y., & Chapman, R. (2023). Attitudes towards genetic testing: The role of genetic literacy, motivated cognition, and socio-demographic characteristics. PLOS ONE, 18(11), e0293187. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0293187 (*equal contribution)
  5. Likhanov, M., Bogdanova, O., Alenina, E., Kolienko, T., & Kovas, Y. (2023). No evidence of a positive effect of learning Chinese language as an L2 on spatial ability. Scientific Reports, 13(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-26738-2
  6. Likhanov, M., Maslennikova, E., Costantini, G., Budakova, A., Esipenko, E., Ismatullina, V., & Kovas, Y. (2022). This is the way: Network perspective on targets for spatial ability development programmes. British Journal of Educational Psychology, 92(4), 1597–1620. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjep.12524   
  7. Likhanov, M. V., Tsigeman, E. S., Papageorgiou, K. A., Akmalov, A. F., Sabitov, I. A., & Kovas, Y. V. (2021). Ordinary extraordinary: Elusive group differences in personality and psychological difficulties between STEM-gifted adolescents and their peers. British Journal of Educational Psychology, 91(1), 78–100. Scopus. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjep.12349
  8. Likhanov, M. V., Tsigeman, E. S., & Kovas, Y. (2021). Online Short Spatial Ability Battery (OSSAB): Psychometric Norms for Older Students. Sibirskiy Psikhologicheskiy Zhurnal, 78, 117–129. https://doi.org/10.17223/17267080/78/7
  9. Likhanov, M. V., Ismatullina, V. I., Fenin, A. Y., Wei, W., Rimfeld, K., Maslennikova, E. P., Esipenko, E. A., Sharafeva, K. R., Feklicheva, I. V., Chipeeva, N. A., Budakova, A. V., Soldatova, E. L., Zhou, X., & Kovas, Y. V. (2018). The Factorial Structure of Spatial Abilities in Russian and Chinese Students. Psychology in Russia: State of the Art, 11(4), 96–114. https://doi.org/10.11621/pir.2018.0407
  10. Likhanov*, M., Zakharov, I.*, Kuzmina, Y., Budakova, A., Vasin, G., & Malykh, S. (2017). Maths Anxiety Does Not Moderate The Link Between Spatial And Maths Ability. 212–226. https://doi.org/10.15405/epsbs.2017.12.21 (*equal contribution)