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Simona Abagnale
Role / Position PhD student
Instiution / Company University of Campania Luigi Vanvitelli
Bio My work aims to investigate the physiological and behavioural responses of patients with Disorders of Consciousness following specific sensory stimulations, such as tickling and pleasant touch.
Rochelle Ackerley
Role / Position Researcher/PI
Instiution / Company CNRS - Aix-Marseille University
Bio I use microneurography to investigate how touch is encoded and interpreted in humans. I combine physiological recordings and the stimulation of tactile afferents with neuroimaging (EEG, MEG, fMRI).
Joana Antunes
Belkis Ezgi Arikan
Role / Position postdoctoral researcher
Instiution / Company Justus Liebig University Giessen
Malika Auvray
Role / Position Director of Research, CNRS & Sorbonne-University
Instiution / Company Sorbonne Université, CNRS, Institut des Systèmes Intelligents et de Robotique, ISIR
Bio Malika Auvray is CNRS Director of Research at ISIR. Her research interests include the auditory conversion of social touch, social and spatial perspective taking.
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Narjes Bahreini
Instiution / Company Narjes Bahreini
Swati BANERJEE
Role / Position Scientist
Instiution / Company LIST, CEA Tech
Michela Bassolino
Instiution / Company School of Health Sciences, HES-SO Valais-Wallis, Sion, Switzerland & MySpace Lab, Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois (CHUV), Switzerland
Ingvars Birznieks
Role / Position Associate Professor
Instiution / Company UNSW Sydney
Bio I am a sensory neurophysiologist interested in function of tactile receptors, information encoding mechanisms and sensorimotor control of the human hand.
Sonja Blum
Bart Boets
Role / Position Professor
Instiution / Company KU Leuven
Bio My research focuses on the perceptual, cognitive, socio-affective and neural correlates of neurodevelopmental disorders, in particular autism and prematurity (www.cdp-leuven.be).
Taly Bonder
Matthieu Boulat
Mary Burleson
Role / Position Professor
Instiution / Company Arizona State University
Bio My PhD is in Psychology (behavioral neuroscience). I use cardiovascular psychophysiology & subjective measures to study social connection and interpersonal regulation of emotion and stress via touch.
Niccolò Butti
Role / Position Psychologist, PhD student
Instiution / Company Scientific Institute IRCCS E. Medea
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Carissa Cascio
Role / Position Associate Professor
Instiution / Company Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Bio I am interested in somatic perception and development and its impact on individuals with autism. My work focuses on the neural basis of touch and interoception in this group.
Laura Case
Role / Position Postdoctoral Fellow
Instiution / Company National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health
Bio Laura Case, Ph.D., is a postdoctoral fellow at the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health, NIH. Her research uses functional magnetic resonance imaging, transcranial magnetic stimulation, and pharmacological manipulation to probe brain regions involved in affective touch.
Laura Case
Role / Position Assistant Professor
Instiution / Company UC San Diego
Bio I use sensory testing, brain imaging, brain stimulation, and pharmacologic manipulation to test mechanisms involved in affective touch perception in individuals with and without chronic pain.
Müge Cavdan
Role / Position Postdoctoral researcher
Instiution / Company Justus Liebig University Giessen
Valentina Cazzato
Instiution / Company Liverpool John Moores University
Anna Ciaunica
Pierre-Henri Cornuault
Role / Position Associate Professor
Instiution / Company Femto-ST Institute
Ilona Croy
Instiution / Company Technical University of Dresden
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Olga Dal Monte
Role / Position Associate Professor
Instiution / Company University of Turin
Jutta de Jong
Role / Position PhD
Anik Debrot
Role / Position Senior Lecturer
Instiution / Company University of Lausanne
Karl Devreese
Role / Position LECTOR
Instiution / Company VIVES KU LEUVEN
Bio Relaxationtherapist (Brugge) Master Gerontology (VUB, Brussel) lector Bachelor Wellbeing&Vitality (Vives Ku Leuven, Kortrijk) & PostGraduate Relaxation Therapy (Ku Leuven)
basil duvernoy
Role / Position Postdoc
Instiution / Company Center of Social and Affective Neuroscience
Eva Dydenkova
Instiution / Company Moscow Affective Touch Laboratory at Pushkin Russian Language Institute
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Adam Enmalm
Role / Position PhD student
Instiution / Company Linköping University
Flavia Esposito
Role / Position Postdoctoral fellow
Instiution / Company Linköping University
Bio My current research scope is focused on affective touch and how social context influences the perception of tactile experiences, by creating meaning and impact.
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Merle Fairhurst
Role / Position J. Prof. Social Affective Touch
Instiution / Company TU Dresden
Elena Fuehrer
Role / Position PhD candidate
Instiution / Company Justus Liebig University Giessen
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Mayank Gautam
Role / Position Postdoctoral Researcher
Instiution / Company University of Pennsylvania
Bio My major research interest is in the circuitry of DRG and spinal cord.I am studying the functional circuits governing the expression of touch and pain behaviors.
Michelle Giraud
Role / Position Phd Student
Instiution / Company University of Milano-Bicocca
Gudrun Goransson
Role / Position Osteopath
David Gueorguiev
Role / Position Researcher
Instiution / Company CNRS
Marco Guidotti
Instiution / Company UMR 1253 INSERM - Université de Tours
Bio PhD thesis project on affective touch in autism spectrum disorder. Data from somatosensory evoked potentials.
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Connor Haggarty
Role / Position Postdoctoral Fellow
Instiution / Company Linköping University
Bio My PhD looked at individual differences in the physiological and behavioural responses to affective touch. I'm interested in the role of affective touch in social behaviour in humans and other species
Juliana Harkki
Role / Position Doctoral researcher
Instiution / Company Aalto University
Bio Studying the therapeutic potential of C-tactile afferents with current focus on treatment of substance addictions.
Robin Heron
Role / Position PhD student
Instiution / Company Telecom-Paristech
Hsin-Ni Ho
Damien Huzard
Role / Position Postdoc
Instiution / Company IGF
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Tristen Inagaki
Role / Position Assistant Professor
Instiution / Company San Diego State University
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Hilde Jacobsen
Role / Position PhD candidate
Instiution / Company University of Oslo
Ozaveshe Patrick JIMOH
Role / Position Health and Social Care Lecturer
Instiution / Company Scholars School System
Merel Jung
Role / Position Assistant professor
Instiution / Company Tilburg University
Bio Merel's research interests cover the automatic analysis of social touch in interpersonal and human-robot interaction and the development of socially intelligent behavior for artificial agents.
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Faiz Kassim
Role / Position Postdoctotal fellow
Instiution / Company Linköping University
Bio Faiz is a neuropharmacologist and postdoctoral fellow at the Centre for Social and Affective neuroscience, LiU. He focuses on social and affective aspects of pain, with pharmacological manipulations.
Konstantina Kilteni
Role / Position Group leader & Assistant Prof.
Instiution / Company Donders Institute & Karolinska Institute
Emma Kindström
Role / Position Research engineer
Instiution / Company Linköping University
Evelin Kirkilionis
Dasha Kolesnyk
Role / Position Postdoc
Instiution / Company University of Twente
Austin Korgan
Role / Position Postdoc
Instiution / Company University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
Vanja Kurjakov
Role / Position Head of Pediatric department, MD, pediatrician
Instiution / Company General Hospital New Hospital, Novi Sad, Serbia
Bio I am a pediatrician,PPNE to be (APPAH) and CIMI (IAIM),focused on the issues of highly sensitive children, early trauma, prenatal bonding and affective touch in perinatal period.
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Malin Lagerström
Role / Position Senior lecturer, research leader
Instiution / Company Uppsala University
Bio Itch, pain, primary afferents, spinal cord, transgenic tools
Andrea Lambell
Role / Position Doctoral researcher
Instiution / Company Durham University
Bio ESRC-funded PhD candidate, formerly a massage therapist with a multidisciplinary palliative care team. Investigating the role of touch and non-verbal communication in healthcare inequities.
Mathilde Landgrebe
Max Larsson
Role / Position Researcher
Instiution / Company Linuköping University
Leslee Lazar
Role / Position Assistant Teaching Professor
Instiution / Company IIT Gandhinagar
Bio I am interested in understanding the cognitive and neural mechanisms of human multimodal tactile perception.
Thanh-loan Le
Role / Position PhD Student
Instiution / Company Sorbonne Université, ISIR
Olivia Le Moëne
Role / Position Postdoc
Instiution / Company Linköping University
Haemy Lee Masson
Role / Position Postdoc
Instiution / Company KU Leuven
Alastair Loutit
Ellen Lumpkin
Role / Position Professor
Instiution / Company UC Berkeley & Columbia University
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Sarah McIntyre
Instiution / Company Linköping University
Staci Meredith
Instiution / Company University of Cambridge
Bio My interest lies in the development of the body schema, or the awareness of the topographic arrangement of body parts, especially parts whose function is entwined with their role as sensory organs.
Els Messelis
Role / Position Gerontologist
Bio Gerontologist based in Belgium. (Co)Author of 13 books. Expertise: Sexual health in later life Since 2019 collecting stories on social en touch Latest book 2021: ‘Touch in times of skinhunger’
Jamie Moffatt
Role / Position Postdoctoral Researcher
Instiution / Company Royal Holloway, University of London
Ronna Moore
Role / Position Graduate Researcher
Instiution / Company La Trobe University
Bio I am a massage therapist undertaking doctoral research exploring the specific role of touch in developing the therapeutic relationship in the context of palliative care massage therapy.
D. Muret
Instiution / Company UCL
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Elena Nava
Role / Position Assistant Professor
Instiution / Company University of Milano-Bicocca
Koen Nelissen
Role / Position Professor
Instiution / Company KU Leuven
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Giulia Orioli
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Victor Hugo Pacagnelli Infante
Role / Position Postdoc
Instiution / Company Leibniz - INM - Institute for new materials
Sohee Park
Role / Position Professor of Psychology
Instiution / Company Vanderbilt University
Daniela M. Pfabigan
Role / Position Postdoctoral Fellow
Instiution / Company University of Oslo
Ravi Poorun
Role / Position NIHR Academic Clinical Fellow (Paediatrics)
Instiution / Company University of Exeter & Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Foundation Trust
Nicola Power
Role / Position University Lecturer
Instiution / Company Auckland University of Technology
Bio I am a lecturer and researcher in areas of wellness with a strong focus on affective, caring touch. Both Masters and PhD have explored a qualitative approach to this topic.
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Inbal Ravreby
Role / Position PhD student
Instiution / Company Weizmann Institute of Science
Bio I am interested in what makes us connect, in the feeling of togetherness and in self-other blurring. To this end I use behavioral, physiological and neural measures during dyadic interactions.
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Richard s
Role / Position Psycho motore child therapist
Katie Sarra
Role / Position Founder
Instiution / Company Body Poem
Bio Founder of the Institute of Relational Harmony Studies, offering professional training in Sexological Bodywork, Sexological Intimacy Coaching, Somatic Sex Education, & Body Poem.
Ekaterina Schneider
Role / Position Research Associate
Instiution / Company Institute of Medical Psychology
Renate Schweizer
Instiution / Company Functional Imaging Laboratory, German Primate Center, Goettingen, Germany
Amanullah Solangi
Role / Position Community Educator
Instiution / Company Aahung NGO
Louise Staring
Role / Position Research Assistant
Instiution / Company Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Susanne Stoll
Instiution / Company Hertie Institute for Clinical Brain Research
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Alexander Toet
Role / Position senior scientist
Instiution / Company TNO
Paula Trotter
Role / Position Lecturer in Cognitive Neuroscience
Instiution / Company Liverpool John Moores University
Pauli Tuovinen
Role / Position Doctoral Researcher
Instiution / Company Aalto University
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Agnes van Swaay
Role / Position PhD student / researcher
Instiution / Company Radboud university medical center
Bio As a health care psychologist and as a haptotherapist I have many years of experience in palliative and oncological care, treating and supporting patients with cancer. PhD research: 'Haptotherapy for people with cancer'. First study: Experience of haptotherapists and reasons for consultation.
Maria Evangelia Vlachou
Role / Position PhD student
Instiution / Company Aix Marseille University
Eliane Volchan
Role / Position Full Professor
Instiution / Company Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
Bio Full Prof. and Head of Neurobiology Lab. Focus on motor predispositions for social grooming. Explores the visuo-motor affective interplay employing bonding scenes and electrophysiological recordings.
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Claire Wardak
Role / Position Researcher
Instiution / Company UMR 1253, iBrain, Université de Tours, Inserm
Grace Whitaker
Role / Position Postdoc
Instiution / Company AC3E - Universidad Federico Santa María
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Ludovica Zanini
Instiution / Company Sapienza University of Rome
Cezary Zechowski
Role / Position Head of Psychiatry Clinic of Children and Youth, Lazarski University, Warsaw,
Instiution / Company Psychiatry Clinic of Children and Youth, Lazarski University, Wolski Hospital, Warsaw
Jason Zhang
Instiution / Company University of Birmingham
Mounia Ziat
Role / Position Associate Professor
Instiution / Company Bentley University
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