Grants (and scholarships) as principal investigator
2025-2028: DFG-funded “Examining the mechanisms that integrate cardiorespiratory interoception with active sensing (INTACT)”.
2023-2025: BMBF-funded “Objective and hybrid assessment of cognitive and fatigue-associated post-COVID symptoms with multimodal tools (EPSILON)“.
2023-2026: DFG-funded “Increasing eyewitness identification accuracy in lineups using 3D interactive virtual reality (3DIL)“
2023-2026: BMBF-funded “Technology-supported motor rehabilitation in Rett Syndrome (TeMoRett)“.
2021-2025: Max Planck Society and Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft cooperation-funded “Neurocognitively-guided modeling of virtual humans for enhanced realism in immersive media (NEUROHUM)“
2017-2021: BMBF-funded project “VReha: Virtual worlds for digital diagnostics and cognitive rehabilitation“
2020: XR4ALL/EU-funded project “Excite-O-Meter – a Unity plugin to include bodily signals in XR development and evaluation”
2015-2018: ESF-funded project “Influence of […] stress on cognition, brain function, and brain structure” (at Leipzig Research Centre for Civilization Diseases, Universität Leipzig)
2010-2014: Travel grants by Barbara-Wengeler-Stiftung, GlaxoSmithKline Foundation, and Boehringer Ingelheim Foundation
2013/4: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin – Postdoc scholarship
2006-8: University College London – Tuition fee scholarship
2007/8: German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) – Graduate scholarship
2004/5: CREPUQ – Tuition fee scholarship (McGill University)
Grants as collaborator
2024-28: COST-Action “An evolutionary view to understanding affective states across species (AFFECT-EVO)” (Main proposer: Tom Smulders, Newcastle University)
2023-28: ANII-MPG collaboration at Universidad de la República, Montevideo, Uruguay: “Brain-body basis of social conflict approach-avoidance in depression & health” (PI: Victoria Gradin)
2022-24: BBSRC International Partnership: “ManyFaces – international network of face researchers” (PI: Lisa DeBruine, University of Glasgow)
2023: Internationalization grant at Università di Torino, Italy: “Minimally invasive & continuous rating of affective experience in immersive VR” (PIs: Sara Carletto, Francesca Malandrone)