Faculty member

Research Interests

Our research group integrates behavioral measures, such as reaction time and accuracy, with neuroimaging, autonomic indices, and personality assessments to elucidate the neurocognitive mechanisms driving emotional processing and biases in both healthy and clinical populations. Through interdisciplinary collaborations with computer scientists and neuroimaging experts, our lab pursues interdisciplinary research aligned with the shift toward mechanism-based rather than symptom-based psychiatric diagnosis. Our long-term goal is to develop precise diagnostic tools, identify early neurocognitive risk markers for psychopathology, and create effective, individually tailored neurocognitive interventions.
 

Available PhD projects:

• How does attention modulate emotional processing? High-resolution fMRI study to explore sub-cortical nuclei.
• Interoception and arousal in anxiety and depression: A combined EEG-heart rate study (in collaboration with Prof. Vadim Nikulin).
• The neural basis of biases in interpersonal distance preference and perception in social anxiety.
• Neurocognitive risk factors for postpartum depression and childbirth-related PTSD (in collaboration with the psychiatric clinic).

*Please note, I'm waiting for replies regarding funding, so these might change.