Professor Agnieszka Wykowska is Head of the ‘Social Cognition in Human-Robot Interaction’ Unit at the Italian Institute of Technology (Genoa, Italy), and is Adjunct Professor of Engineering Psychology at Luleå University of Technology, as well as Visiting Professor at the University of Manchester. She holds a degree in neurocognitive psychology (2006, LMU Munich), a doctorate in psychology (2008) and a German “habilitation” (2013) from LMU Munich. In 2016 she was awarded the ERC Starting Grant “InStance: Intentional Stance for Social Attunement”. She is editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Social Robotics and associate editor of Frontiers in Psychology. She is a board member and president-elect of the European Society for Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience (ESCAN), a member of ELLIS (European Lab for Learning and Intelligent Systems) and a leading member of the ERC Beneficiaries Association. In her research, she combines cognitive neuroscience methods with human-robot interaction to understand the mechanisms of the human brain in interaction with natural and artificial agents. See CV complete.
Emotions 2021/22
The Concept For centuries emotions have been pitted against reason and located somewhere in between the heart and the gut, totally alien to the brain.
