Following the departure of Professors Robert Riener (ETHZ) and Anna Nobre (Yale University) from the Scientific Advisory Board of Sense, the Sense Management is honored and pleased to announce the arrival of Professors David Sander (University of Geneva) and Fiona Newell (Trinity College Dublin) to this advisory committee. We look forward to this future collaboration and to being able to rely on their expertise.
Their profiles and expertise:
Professor David Sander studied mathematics and psychology at René Descartes University (Paris, France) and obtained a Ph.D. in cognitive sciences from Lumière University (Lyon, France). In 2002, he joined the Department of Psychology at the University of Geneva. He is now a full professor in this department, where he directs the Laboratory for the Study of Emotion Elicitation and Expression (E3Lab). In 2012, he was appointed director of the Interfaculty Center for Affective Sciences and the National Center of Competence in Research (NCCR) for Affective Sciences. He is mainly interested in the mechanisms involved in emotion elicitation and how these mechanisms modulate attention, memory, and decision-making. He has received the national Latsis prize for his research.
Dr. Fiona Newell is a Professor of Experimental Psychology (personal chair) and a member of Trinity College Dublin. She graduated in psychology from Trinity College Dublin and completed her Ph.D. at the University of Durham, UK. During her postdoctoral training, she spent time in various academic institutions, including the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit in Cambridge, UK, and the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics in Germany. After a brief career in industry, she returned to Trinity College in 2000. Newell is a former Fulbright scholar, a member of the Psychonomics Society, and a member of the Association for Psychological Science. Her primary research areas focus on human perceptual processes.