Academic staff

Members of the academic staff at the Department of Psychology.

Name	Title	Job responsibilities	Image
Anders Petersen	Associate Professor	Visual attention, memory, mathematical modelling, eye tracking, pupillometry, EEG
Ann-Louise Holten	Associate Professor	Work & Organizational Psychology, leadership & leadership development, organizational change & interventions, entrepreneurship & startups
Anne Bryde Christensen	Assistant Professor
Anne Christine Stuart	Postdoc	Quantitative methods, interventional analyses, causality, prediction, psychometri, parent-child interaction, socio-emotional development, parenting
Anne Ranning	Associate Professor	Family-based interventions, intergenerational transmission of mental illness, psychiatry, psychotherapy for severe mental illness, suicide prevention
Annemarie Olsen	Head of Department, Professor	Sensory science, consumer science, eating behaviour, food preferences, food choice
Asmus Vogel	Associate Professor	Neuropsychology, cognitive disorders in neurodegenerative diseases, dementia, cognitive aging, memory, cognitive testing
Birgitte Fagerlund	Professor
Bo Bach	Clinical Professor	Personality function, personality disorder, psychopathology, differential diagnostics, ICD-11, HiTOP, neurodiversity, assessment, test, schema therapy
Brady Wagoner	Professor	Cultural Psychology, memory studies, General Psychology, social change, history of ideas, dialogical analysis, qualitative and visual methods
Charlotte Bjerre Meilstrup	Postdoc	ABCs of mental health, mental health promotion, well-being, partnerships, interventions, children/adolescents, bridging between research and practice
Cécile Gal	Postdoc	Cognitive development, brain development, infancy, neuroimaging, EEG, eye tracking, learning, curiosity
Dea Siggaard Stenbæk	Associate Professor	Psychedelic research, neuropsychiatry, research on the brain, depression
Dora Kampis	Assistant Professor - Tenure Track	Social cognition, early childhood cognition, social and cognitive development, developmental cognitive neuroimaging
Emanuela Yeung	Assistant Professor	Developmental psychology, infancy, cognitive development, social understanding, eye tracking, pupillometry, EEG
Flora Botelho	Postdoc	In/equality, in/dependence, intimacy, morality, ethnic relations, personhood, childhood, creativity. Regions: Denmark & Mozambique
Guido Makransky	Professor	Educational Psychology, virtual reality, technology enhanced learning, behavioral change interventions, Environmental Psychology
Gustav Bøg Lassen Petersen	Postdoc	Educational psychology, technology-based learning, virtual reality, pedagogical agents, avatars
Hana Malá Rytter	Associate Professor	Concussion, acquired brain injury, neuroplasticity, neurorehabilitation, Neuropsychology, Cognitive Psychology
Ida Egmose Pedersen	Assistant Professor - Tenure Track	Early intervention, parent-child interaction, screen use, parenthood, attachment
Ingo Zettler	Professor	Dishonesty, personality, behavioral science, open science, prosocial behavior, aversive (dark) traits, sports psychology, personality assessment
Jesper Dammeyer	Professor	Developmental Psychology, Health Psychology, Personality and Social Psychology, Educational Psychology
Jia Li	Associate Professor
Jochen Eberhard Gebauer	Professor	Social Psychology, Personality Psychology, Cross-cultural Psychology, self, agency and communion, overconfidence
Johanne Smith-Nielsen	Associate Professor	Clinical Psychology, postnatal depression, early childhood mental health & attachment, caregiver-child relationship, center-based childcare quality
Julia Jäkel	Professor	Early life risk, resilience, long-term development, mental health, preterm birth, immigrant children, intersectionality and inequality
Kamilla Woznica Miskowiak	Professor	Cognitive Neuropsychiatry, mood disorders, cognitive function, interventions, randomised controlled trials, prevention, neuroimaging, biomarkers
Karen-Inge Karstoft	Associate Professor - Promotion Programme	Trauma, resilience, psychometrics, prediction, epidemiology
Katarina Begus	Assistant Professor - Tenure Track	Infant cognitive development, curiosity, information seeking, active (social) learning, neuroimaging, eye tracking, caregiver-child interaction
Kathrine Sørensen	Postdoc	Work-related stress, leadership and mental health of the employee
Katrine Isabella Wendelboe	Postdoc	Early intervention, attachment, mentalizing, parental mentalizing, perinatal depression, Circle of Security
Katrine Røhder	Associate Professor	Parent-child interaction, cerebral palsy, perinatal mental health, caregiving representations, infant socio-emotional development, early interventions
Laila Øksnebjerg	Associate Professor	Neuropsychology, gerontopsychology, dementia, brain diseases, assistive technology, psychosocial interventions, user-involvement
Lau Lilleholt Harpviken	Assistant Professor - Tenure Track	Behavioral Economics, personality, judgment and decision-making, behavioral ethics, social data science
Libby Igra	Postdoc	Clinical Psychology, psychopathology, psychotherapy research, emotion regulation, meta-cognition, cultural competence in psychotherapy
Line Nielsen	Postdoc	Public mental health, mental health promotion, well-being, children/adolescents, intervention, partnerships, social inequality, ABCs of mental health
Louise Birkedal Glenthøj	Associate Professor	Clinical Psychology, psychiatry, psychopathology, virtual reality, psychosis, psychotherapy, randomized clinical trials, neuro- and social cognition
Ludmila Bogdan	Postdoc	Sociology of migration, labor migration, human trafficking, social inequality
Maja Nyström-Hansen	Postdoc	Early intervention, play, parent-child interaction, stress, cortisol, trauma, perinatal mental health, Developmental Psychopathology
Marie Høgh Thøgersen	Associate Professor
Mark Schram Christensen	Associate Professor	Control of movements, consciousness, motor control, perception, actions, intentionality, agency, TMS, EEG, fMRI, cognition, perception of movement
Maximilian M. Rabe	Postdoc	Cognition, reading, eye movements, language processing, computational modelling, Bayesian statistics
Mette Skovgaard Væver	Professor	Early childhood mental health and development, attachment and care, parenthood, early intervention and prevention, developmental psychopathology
Mikkel Christoffer Vinding	Postdoc	Cognitive Neuroscience, motor control, volition, cognitive modeling, M/EEG
Milan Obaidi	Associate Professor	Islamist & right-wing extremism, political extremism, intergroup relations & conflict, migration, islamophobia, prejudice & deprivation, conspiracy
Monika Anna Walczak	Assistant Professor - Tenure Track	Clinical Psychology, anxiety disorders and depression in youth, cognitive behavioral therapy, metacognitive therapy, parent-based interventions
Nicolas François René Goupil	Postdoc	Social cognition, early childhood cognition, social and cognitive development, developmental cognitive neuroimaging, social perception, higher vision
Nicoline Hemager	Associate Professor
Oliver James Hulme	Associate Professor	Reward, decision-making, risk-taking, neuroeconomics, functional neuroimaging, Bayesian modelling, cognitive computational neuroscience, open science
Paul Maurice Conway	Associate Professor	Psychosocial work environment, work stress, workplace mistreatment, workplace bullying, sickness presenteeism, ageing, work ability, mental health
Pia Ingold	Professor	Personnel selection and assessment, leadership, social effectiveness, impression management, open science, digitalization in human resource management
Randi Starrfelt	Professor	Neuropsychology, brain injury, reading, face recognition, visual perception
Ro Julia Robotham	Assistant Professor - Tenure Track	Neuropsychology, brain injury, cognitive functions, cognitive deficits, visual perception, stroke, cerebral parese, fatigue, gender, the brain
Robert Böhm	Professor	Social Psychology, judgement and decision-making, Economic Psychology, prosociality, cooperation
Rosa Ellen Lavelle-Hill	Assistant Professor - Tenure Track	Big data, machine learning, Explainable AI, Personality and Social Psychology, Environmental Psychology, migration
Sara Kerstine Kaya Nielsen	Assistant Professor - Tenure Track	Psychopathology, treatment, cognitive behaviour therapy, attention control, attachment, psychiatry, assessment, psychotherapy
Sarah Sander	Postdoc	Early intervention, social inequality, day care, quantitative methods, causality, register data
Seamus Anthony Power	Associate Professor - Promotion Programme	Culture, democracy, diversity, economic inequality, migration, morality, social movements, Denmark, E.U., Ireland, USA
Sebastian Simonsen	Associate Professor
Signe Allerup Vangkilde	Professor, Head of Studies	Visual perception and attention, cognition in neurodevelopmental disorders (ADHD, OCD, Tourette) and clinical disorders (anxiety, depression)
Simo Køppe	Professor	Pre-verbal development of the psyche, historical development of the subject, history and philosophy of science, the psychoanalytic subject model
Sonja Breinholst	Associate Professor	Child and adolescent anxiety, child and adolescent depression, cognitive behavioral therapy, early intervention and prevention
Sophia Armand	Assistant Professor	Psychedelic research, psilocybin-assisted research, neurophenomenology, neuroimaging, Clinical Psychology, Cognitive Psychology
Sophie Merrild Juul	Assistant Professor - Tenure Track	Evidence-based medicine, clinical research methodology, systematic reviews, meta-analysis, adult psychiatry, mentalization, personality disorders
Stephen Fitzgerald Austin	Associate Professor	Early intervention, treatment of psychosis, processes in clinical and personal recovery, integration of technology into psychiatric treatment
Steven Blurton	Associate Professor	Cognitive Psychology, visual perception and attention, decision-making, psychological methods, modelling of behaviour, Mathematical Psychology
Stig Poulsen	Professor	Clinical Psychology, psychotherapy research, psychotherapy training, practice-based research
Sucharit Katyal	Postdoc
Sune Bo Hansen	Associate Professor
Søren Kyllingsbæk	Professor	Perception, attention, intentions, cognition, mathematical models
Thomas Habekost	Professor	Attention, vision, arousal, Neuropsychology, Cognitive Psychology
Thomas Morton	Professor, Deputy Head of Department	Self and social identity, social change, prejudice and discrimination, Environmental Psychology
Thomas Rune Nielsen	Associate Professor	(Cross-cultural) Neuropsychology, cognitive disorders in neurodegenerative diseases, dementia, ethnic minority groups, cognitive testing
Thor Grünbaum	Associate Professor - Promotion Programme	Philosophy of science, philosophy of psychology and cognitive science, consciousness, prospective memory, motor control
Timothy Charles Skinner	Professor	Diabetes, sleep, health, language
Tine Steenhoff	Postdoc	Fathers, father-child relationship, fathers' influence on children's socio-emotional development, parenthood, attachment, early interventions
Tone Roald	Associate Professor	General Psychology, Personality Psychology, Phenomenological Psychology, qualitative methods, art, aesthetics
Torben Bechmann Jensen	Associate Professor	Social Psychology, social research: mental health, youth, marginalization, prostitution, smoking, counselling, migration and education
Velisar Manea	Postdoc	Developmental, cognitive science, altercentrism, theory of mind, infancy, pupillometry, social cognition
Victoria Helen Southgate	Professor	Early childhood development, cognitive development, neuroimaging, brain development, social cognition
Xuan Li	Associate Professor	Fatherhood, parenting, socioemotional development, gender, culture, intercultural interactions, China, Asia