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Directorate

Professor Sheina Orbell

Professor Sheina Orbell

Director and Principal Investigator

Department of Psychology, University of Essex

Dr Richard Smith

Dr Richard Smith

EEPRU Co-Director

Clinical Director of Research, ESNEFT

 

Clinical associates

Dr Tania Gudu

Consultant Rheumatologist

ESNEFT

Dr Tania Gudu PhD is a Consultant Rheumatologist at ESNEFT who works one day a week at EEPRU collaborating with psychology staff on projects relating to arthritis and chronic pain.

Dr Ben Marlow

Dr Ben Marlow

Clinical Director

ESNEFT Synapse Centre for Neurodevelopment

Dr Ben Marlow is a Consultant Paediatrician at ESNEFT and Clinical Director of the ESNEFT Synapse Centre for Neurodevelopment. He also collaborates on projects with the “Essex Babylab”.

 

Academic associates

Dr Veronica Lamarche
Senior Lecturer, Department of Psychology
Research interests: Trust and interdependence; Motivated cognition and relationship maintenance; Risk, vulnerability and uncertainty regulation; Romantic relationships
Professor Silke Paulmann
Head of Department - Professor (R), Department of Psychology
Research interests: Social language processing in normal and special populations (e.g., bilinguals, brain damaged, aging); Emotional and attitudinal language processing across different cultures; Motivational prosody processing; Event-related brain potentials; How teachers' tone of voice can influence students' wellbeing and behaviour
Dr Pascal Vrticka
Senior Lecturer, Department of Psychology
Research interests: Functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy (fNIRS) Hyperscanning; Social Cognitive Affective Neuroscience; Attachment; Bio-Behavioural and Interpersonal Neural Synchrony; Caregiving; Epigenetics; (Functional) Magnetic Resonance Imaging - (f)MRI
Professor Miroslav Sirota
Professor, Department of Psychology
Research interests: In my research, I am trying to understand how people judge, reason, and make decisions in situations of uncertainty.; My current research interests are centred on two key topics: (i) exploring the reasons and mechanisms behind why individuals do or do not correct their errors, and (ii) examining the psychology of human behaviours and cognition in relation to antimicrobial resistance.; Why people expect antibiotics even when not needed?; Risk and probability communication; Why people (do not) correct their own errors in judgments and reasoning (e.g., intuitive and deliberate errors, effect of feedback)
Dr Wijnand Van Tilburg
Senior Lecturer, Department of Psychology
Research interests: Boredom; Nostalgia; Economic psychology; Emotion; Meaning in life
Dr Alex Sel
Senior Lecturer, Department of Psychology
Research interests: Understanding brain networks underpinning higher order cognitive functions in the human brain
Dr Katie Daughters
Lecturer, Department of Psychology
Research interests: Emotion; Hormones; Oxytocin; Social Behaviour; Social Cognition; Social Perception; Wellbeing; Mental Health
Dr Elia Valentini
Senior Lecturer, Department of Psychology
Research interests: Climate and ecological emergency; Existential and symbolic threats; Pain and sensory threats; Emotional facial expressions; Self-harm and trauma
Dr Carina De Klerk
Senior Lecturer, Department of Psychology
Research interests: imitation; facial mimicry; action processing; development of the mirror neuron system;
Dr Nicholas Cooper
Senior Lecturer, Department of Psychology
Research interests: Transcranial magnetic simulation (TMS); Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS); Mirror neurons; Stress & Ageing; Nature-based socal prescribing
Dr Silvia Rigato
Senior Lecturer, Department of Psychology
Research interests: Face and emotion processing in infancy.; The development of body representation and tactile localisation.; The development of the neural basis of shared touch.; Perinatal mental health.
Dr Megan Klabunde
Lecturer, Department of Psychology
Research interests: Interoception; fMRI; Adolescence; Interoceptive Development; Interoception and its links to Mental Health Development during Adolescence; Interoception and Somatic Symptoms in Children; Interoception and Exercise in Adolescent Girls; Interoception and Anxiety; Trauma and Interoception Research in Children and Adolescents; Interoception and Sexual Functioning
Dr Maria Filippetti
Senior Lecturer, Department of Psychology
Research interests: body representations; interoception; hunger and satiety; multisensory development

 

Research staff

Chuan-Ren Isaac Chung

Research staff

Department of Psychology, University of Essex

Dr Paolo Di Luzio

Research staff

Department of Psychology, University of Essex

Dr Guyan Sloane
Dr Guyan Sloane

Research staff

Department of Psychology, University of Essex

Dr Mark Wheeler

Research staff

Department of Psychology, University of Essex

 

PhD students

Olayinka Farris
Olayinka Farris

Postgraduate research student

Department of Psychology, University of Essex

Amy Hollingworth

Postgraduate research student

Department of Psychology, University of Essex

Laura Dodd

Postgraduate research student

Department of Psychology, University of Essex

Laura Mtewele
Laura Mtewele

Postgraduate research student

Department of Psychology, University of Essex

Ovgun Ses
Ovgun Ses

Postgraduate research student

Department of Psychology, University of Essex

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