Yulia Kovas (born March 12, 1973) is a geneticist and psychologist - currently a Professor of Genetics and Psychology at Goldsmiths, University of London, and a visiting Professor at UCL, King’s College, Sussex and New York Universities - in the United Kingdom. She received British Academy Wiley Prize in Psychology in 2012. Kovas is the director of InLab (International Laboratory for Interdisciplinary Investigations into Individual Differences in Learning) at Goldsmiths; the director of the Laboratory for Cognitive Investigations and Behavioural Genetics at Tomsk State University (TSU); and also co-directs the International Centre for Research in Human Development, TSU. She directs the Russian School Twin Registry (RSTR) and leads the genetically-informative mathematics research in the Twi