Past board members and ESCAN founding members

Members of the Board (2022-2024)

Agnieszka Wykowska (President 2023)

Social Cognition in Human-Robot Interaction Unit, Italian Institute of Technology, Genoa, Italy homepage  |  agnieszka.wykowska@iit.it

Giorgia Silani (Media Officer, President 2024)

Faculty of Psychology, University of Vienna, Austria
homepage |  giorgia.silani@univie.ac.at

Laura Crucianelli (Secretary)

Queen Mary University of London, UK
homepage | escan@escaneurosci.eu

Lorena Chanes

Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain
homepage  |  lorena.chanes@uab.cat

Aikaterini (Katerina) Fotopoulou (President 2024-2026)

University College London, London, UK
homepage  |   a.fotopoulou@ucl.ac.uk

Shaimaa Nasr Amin

Hashemite University and Cairo University, Egypt
homepage  |   shaimaa599@yahoo.com

Henk van Steenbergen (website)

Leiden Institute for Brain and Cognition, Leiden University, the Netherlands
homepage   |  HvanSteenbergen@fsw.leidenuniv.nl

Nicolas Burra

University of Geneva, Switzerland
homepage  | nicolas.burra@unige.ch

Francesca Ciardo

Italian Institute of Technology, Italy
homepage  |  francesca.ciardo@iit.it

Matthias Wieser (Treasurer)

Clinical and Biological Psychology, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands
homepage  |  wieser@essb.eur.nl

Members of the Board (2020-2022)

Manos Tsakiris (President)

Department of Psychology, Social and Affective Processes, Royal Holloway University of London, UK. homepage

 Suzanne Oosterwijk (Secretary)

Department of Social Psychology, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
homepage  |  S.Oosterwijk@uva.nl

Matthias Wieser (Treasurer)

Clinical and Biological Psychology, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands
homepage  |  wieser@essb.eur.nl

Giorgia Silani (Media Officer, President-Elect)

Faculty of Psychology, University of Vienna, Austria
homepage |  giorgia.silani@univie.ac.at 

Agnieszka Wykowska (President-Elect)

Social Cognition in Human-Robot Interaction Unit, Italian Institute of Technology, Genoa, Italy homepage  |  agnieszka.wykowska@iit.it

Lorena Chanes

Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain
homepage  |  lorena.chanes@uab.cat 

Aikaterini (Katerina) Fotopoulou

University College London, London, UK
homepage  |   a.fotopoulou@ucl.ac.uk

Shaimaa Nasr Amin

Hashemite University and Cairo University, Egypt
homepage  |   shaimaa599@yahoo.com

Henk van Steenbergen (Website)

Leiden Institute for Brain and Cognition, Leiden University, the Netherlands
homepage   |  HvanSteenbergen@fsw.leidenuniv.nl

Members of the Board (2018-2020)

Bernhard Hommel (President)

Department of Psychology, Leiden University, The Netherlands
homepage  |  hommel@fsw.leidenuniv.nl

Fernando Ferreira-Santos (Secretary)

Laboratory of Neuropsychophysiology, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences of the University of Porto, Portugal 
homepage  |  frsantos@fpce.up.pt

Matthias Wieser (Treasurer)

Clinical and Biological Psychology, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands
homepage  |  wieser@essb.eur.nl

Giorgia Silani (Media Officer)

Faculty of Psychology, University of Vienna, Austria
homepage |  giorgia.silani@univie.ac.at

Lorenza Colzato (Member until January 2020)

Department of Cognitive Neurophysiology, Faculty of Medicine, University Clinic, Dresden homepage  |  lorenza.colzato@uniklinikum-dresden.de

Susan Oosterwijk

Department of Social Psychology, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
homepage  |  S.Oosterwijk@uva.nl

Manos Tsakiris

Department of Psychology, Social and Affective Processes, Royal Holloway University of London, UK. homepage  |  Manos.Tsakiris@rhul.ac.uk

Agnieszka Wykowska

Social Cognition in Human-Robot Interaction Unit, Italian Institute of Technology, Genoa, Italy homepage  |  agnieszka.wykowska@iit.it

Members of the Board (2016-2018)

Sonja Kotz (President)

Research Group “Subcortical contributions to comprehension”, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany
homepage  |  kotz@cbs.mpg.be

Bernhard Hommel (President-Elect, Deputy-Treasurer)

Department of Psychology, Leiden University, The Netherlands
homepage  |  hommel@fsw.leidenuniv.nl

Annekathrin Schacht (Treasurer)

Institute of Psychology Affective Neuroscience and Psychophysiology Lab, University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
homepage  |  aschach@uni-goettingen.de

Frank Van Overwalle

Department of Psychology, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
homepage  |  Frank.VanOverwalle@vub.ac.be

Lorenza Colzato (Secretary)

Principal investigator at Leiden Institute for Brain and Cognition and the Department of Psychology, Cognitive Psychology Unit, Leiden University, The Netherlands
homepage  |  colzato@FSW.leidenuniv.nl

Fernando Ferreira-Santos

Laboratory of Neuropsychophysiology, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences of the University of Porto, Porto, Portugal
homepage  |  frsantos@fpce.up.pt

Artur Marchewka Laboratory of Brain Imaging (LOBI),Neurobiology Center, The Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology, Polish Academy of Science, Warsaw, Poland
homepage  |  a.marchewka@nencki.gov.pl

Manos Tsakiris Department of Psychology, Social and Affective Processes, Royal Holloway University of Londen, UK.
homepage  |  Manos.Tsakiris@rhul.ac.uk

Members of the Board (until 2016)