Researchers
Meet the people behind ARIA.

Olivier Luminet
Full Professor at University of Louvain, Associate Professor at Free University of Brussels and Research Director at Belgian Fund for Scientific Research
Alexithymia-related interests:
Cognition
Affective sciences
Emotion regulation
Emotion processing
Interoception

Geoff Bird
Professor at University of Oxford and University College London
Alexithymia-related interests:
Autism
Empathy
Emotion inference

Carole Fantini-Hauwel
Professor at Université Libre de Bruxelles
Alexithymia-related interests:
Emotion regulation
Physiology
Heart rate variability
Executive function
Psychometrics

Kristy Nielson
Professor of Department of Psychology at Marquette University
Alexithymia-related interests:
Cognition
Brain imaging
Neural correlates
Executive function
Affective sciences

David A. Preece
Director of the Perth Emotion and Psychopathology Lab at Curtin University
Alexithymia-related interests:
Emotion regulation
Clinical psychology
Psychometrics
Psychopathology
Emotional disorders

Michèle D. Birtel
Associate Professor of Social Clinical Psychology and Lead of Research Centre for Mental Health at University of Greenwich
Alexithymia-related interests:
Social psychology
Health psychology
Intergroup relations
Stigma
Loneliness

Katharina S. Goerlich
Assistant Professor at University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen
Alexithymia-related interests:
Brain imaging
Neural correlates
Emotion processing
Social cognition
Related personality traits

Irina Jarvers
Postdoc at Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University of Regensburg
Alexithymia-related interests:
Psychopathology
Psychometrics
Risk factors
Interoception
Autism

Maria Etlender
Licensed Psychological Psychotherapist (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy)
Alexithymia-related interests:
Autism
Diagnostic process
Treatment
Clinical psychology
Psychopathology

Marine Mas
Postdoc at University of Louvain
Alexithymia-related interests:
Cognition
Executive function
Emotion perception
Emotion regulation
Emotion salience

Giulia Gaggero
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Psychology and Cognitive Science, University of Trento
Alexithymia-related interests:
Cultural factors
Social cognition
Empathy
Psychometrics
Interoception

Bolek Kerouš
Co-founder & CEO at Animi - mobile app for alexithymia
Alexithymia-related interests:
Treatment
Diagnostic process
Interoception
Affective sciences
Emotion regulation