Academic interests
• Digital communication, cybersecurity, and psychology of deepfakes
* Bayesian modelling of brain-computer interfaces
• Neural mechanisms of voice communication and psychoacoustics
• Affect processing from human faces, voices, and music
• Anatomy of the limbic system
• Forensic analysis of serious crimes, witness’ reports, and digital fraud
• Digital archaeo-acoustics: Psychoacoustics and digital recreation of ancient instruments
Projects
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Human abilities for deepfake detection
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Digital emotions
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Chances and risks of digital voice technology
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Neurocognitive Mechanisms of Auditory Perception: Challenging the Human Auditory System at the Limits of Hearing
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Perceptual and neuronal investigations on the neurocognitive mechanisms of perceiving whispered emotions
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Auditory emotion recognition from vocally and musically expressed emotions
Background
Professional
11/20 – now Full Professor at the Department of Psychology, University of Oslo, Norway
03/20 – 10/20 Associate Professor at the Department of Psychology, University of Oslo, Norway
09/15 – 01/20 SNSF Professor at the Department of Psychology, University of Zürich, Switzerland
01/13 – 08/15 Senior Research Associate and Principal Investigator (PI) at the Swiss Center for Affective Sciences; University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
01/10 – 12/12 Post-doctoral Research Associate at the Department of Psychology, Uni-versity of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
12/08 – 12/09 Post-doctoral Research Associate at the Department of Neuro-psychology and Behavioral Neurobiology; University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany
02/06 – 11/08 Ph.D. Student and Research Associate at the Department of Neuro-psychology and Behavioral Neurobiology, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany
09/07 Visiting Scientist at the Cognitive Neuroscience Research Group; Universi-ty of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
07/05 – 12/05 Student Assistant at the Department of Neuropsychology and Behavioral Neurobiology; University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany
Awards
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2015 SNSF Professorship, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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2005 Nominated for the best Teaching Award at the University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany.