Lecturers
Julia Fischer
Cognitive Ethology Lab
Julia Fischer is Professor for Cognitive Ethology at the Georg-August-University and the German Primate Center Göttingen. She studied Biology at the Freie Universität Berlin and Glasgow University and obtained her PhD from the Freie Universtität Berlin. After holding PostDoc positions at the University of Pennsylvania and the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, she was appointed Professor at the University of Göttingen. Her research interests include cognition and the communicative behaviour of primates and other social mammals with special regard to the ontogenetic and phylogenetic development, the socio-ecology of communication, sound production and perception and the evolution of speech.
Andrea Hildebrandt
Institute for Psychology, University of Greifswald
Andrea Hildebrandt is Junior Professor for Psychological Diagnostic and Personality Psychology at the University of Greifswald. She obtained her PhD from the Humboldt University in Berlin. After Postdoc positions at the Universities of Duisburg-Essen and the Humboldt University, she was appointed Junior Professor at the University of Greifswald. Her research interests are, among others, individual differences in socio-emotional abilities, such as face cognition, facial emotion recognition and facial expressivity, as well as neurophysiological correlates of emotional abilities.
Sebastian Korb
Neuroscience and Society Lab, Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati, Trieste
Sebastian Korb is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the "Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati" (SISSA) in Trieste, Italy. He holds a Master's degree in Cognitive Neuroscience from Utrecht University (Netherlands), and obtained his PhD from the Swiss Center for Affective Sciences and the University of Geneva, Switzerland. After holding Postdoc positions in Switzerland and at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (USA), he joined the Neuroscience and Society Lab of Raffaella Rumiati at SISSA. His research interests are the perception and production of emotional facial expressions, emotion regulation, embodiment, facial mimicry, joint attention and empathy. He uses a variety of techniques, such as EEG, EMG, fMRI, and TMS.
Katja Liebal
Evoluationary Psychology, Freie Universität Berlin
Katja Liebal is Junior Professor for Evolutionary Biology at the Freie Universität Berlin. She obtained her Master's degree in Biology from the University of Leipzig. For her PhD, she studied the gestural communication of apes in the department of Developmental and Comparative Psychology at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany. After stays at Portsmouth University and the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, she became junior professor in the Clusterinitiative Languages of Emotion in Berlin. Her research interests concern the multimodal communication of primates and the underlying socio-cognitive skills. Projects include research on empathy in captive and semi-wild great apes (with Amrisha Vaish and Michael Tomasello), the development of a GibbonFACS (with Bridget Waller and Anne Burrows), and cross-cultural studies to investigate the comprehension and expression of emotions (with Daniel Haun, Juliane Kaminski, and Isabell Wartenburger).
Annekathrin Schacht
Experimental Psycholinguistics, Georg-August-University Göttingen
Annekathrin Schacht is Junior Professor for Experimental Psycholinguistics at the Courant Research Centre "Text structures" at the Georg-August University Göttingen. She studied Psychology at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and recevied her PhD in 2008. After positions as Interim Professor for Psychology of Motivation and Emotion at the University of Potsdam, as Visiting Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at the Humboldt University, and as Visiting Professor at the Swiss Center of Affective Sciences in Geneva, Switzerland, she was appointed Junior Professor at the University of Göttingen. Her main research interests focus on the interplay of cognition and emotion in several domains of human information processing. These domains mainly include written and spoken language and face processing. The work of her group aims to identify the specification of the origins, dynamics, and boundary conditions of emotion effects within and between different stimulus domains and modalities, as well as to better define the emotional outcomes of cognitive operations, as for instance during reading. She employs a combination of well-established experimental paradigms with several psychophysiological measures, including event-related brain potentials (ERPs), eye movements, electrodermal activity, facial muscle activity (via EMG recordings), and changes of pupil diameter.