TEAM MEMBERS
UNIV.-PROF. MAG. DR. CARMEN MORAWETZ
Principal Investigator
Carmen Morawetz is a Professor in the cognitive, affective and social neuroscience areas of the Psychology Department at University of Innsbruck. Using a combination of behavioral, physiological, and neuroimaging measures, she is interested in understanding how emotions are generated, how people regulate their emotions and how emotional experiences influence other cognitive functions such as decision-making, language, and memory. Prior to joining the faculty at the University of Innsbruck, she completed her Ph.D. at the University of Goettingen and postdoctoral training at the Freie Universität Berlin and the Medical University of Vienna.
Room 3S14
Universitätsstrasse 5-7 (Hotel Grauer Bär)
6020 Innsbruck
+43 (0)512 507-56064
Consultation hour:
Monday, 4pm according to prior agreement
GAIA LAPOMARDA, MSc PhD
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Gaia is a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Psychology at the University of Innsbruck. She calls herself an "affective warrior" who fights for the importance of taking into account and valuing emotions in our daily lives. She wants to shed light on individual differences in the generation and regulation of emotions, and how these can influence different cognitive domains, such as perception and decision-making. A strong supporter of the embodied cognition approach, she aims to explore the interplay between brain and body by combining behavioral, physiological, and neuroimaging measures. Before joining the lab, she completed her Ph.D. at the University of Trento (Italy) and 2-years of postdoctoral training at the New York University in Abu Dhabi (UAE). In her free time, she enjoys doing yoga, hiking in nature, and baking for friends
Room 2S12
Universitätsstrasse 5-7 (Hotel Grauer Bär)
6020 Innsbruck
STELLA BERBOTH
PhD student, Charité Universität Berlin
Stella is a medical student at Charité Universität Berlin and works as a student assistant at the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience of Freie Universität Berlin. Before her medical studies, she completed her Bachelor’s degree in Psychology at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. She is extremely interested in studying the human brain in general, with a focus on emotion processing as well as methodological issues of neuroimaging. As a graduate student in the Affective Neuro Lab, she investigates the reliability of brain activity associated with emotion generation and regulation using fMRI. In her free time, she enjoys running, doing yoga, cooking and singing.
MIRNA HAJRIC, MSc
PhD student
Mirna is a Ph.D. student in the Psychology Department at the University of Innsbruck. She completed her Bachelor's degree in Psychology at the University of Novi Sad, Serbia, and her Master's degree in Clinical Psychology at the Karl-Franzens-University in Graz, Austria. During her studies, she developed a keen interest in brain research, neuromodulation and imaging techniques. As a member of the Affective Neuro Lab, she is investigating the neural underpinnings of human emotion regulation in a social context. In her spare time, she enjoys traveling, cooking, playing video games and volunteering.
Room 3S15
Universitätsstrasse 5-7 (Hotel Grauer Bär)
6020 Innsbruck
+43 (0)512 507-56064
MI LANDE, MSc
PhD student
Mi is currently undertaking her PhD studies at the Psychology Department at the University of Innsbruck. Following a Bachelor's in Biology at the Technical University in Brunswick, Germany, she earned a Master's degree in Behavior, Neurobiology, and Cognition at the University of Vienna, Austria. Now, as a member of the Affective Neuro Lab, she leverages her long-standing fascination for sleep research to investigate the neurobiological foundations of sleep paralysis in conjunction with emotional experiences, employing an interdisciplinary approach that integrates elements of psychology and neurobiology. In her spare time, she enjoys playing the guitar, drawing, reading, and playing tennis.
Room 3W03
Universitätsstrasse 5-7 (Hotel Grauer Bär)
6020 Innsbruck
Student Assisstent
David Lang
Miljana Savic
Student Assisstent
Former Lab Members
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Research Interns
Maximilian Boll
David Lang
Sebastian Caspar
Corinna Eber
Adam Schönstedt
Lisa-Marie J. Rese
Julia Stephanie Sulzmann
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MA Students
Sebastian Brauner
Inka Bürger
Corinna Eber
Hannah Faller
Stephanie Krämer
Amelie Scherz
Katharina Spitz
Anna Uhlmann
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International Visiting Students
Sofia Amaoui