Sebastian Korb, Ph.D.

Sebastian Korb, Ph.D., earned a Bachelor’s degree in psychology from University of Strasbourg, France, and a Master’s degree in cognitive neuroscience from Utrecht University, the Netherlands. He went on to get a Ph.D. in experimental psychology from Geneva University. After that, a fellowship for prospective researchers from the Swiss National Science Foundation allowed him to do a two-year postdoc at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the U.S. Afterwards he moved to the neuroscience department at the International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA) in Trieste, Italy. He then spent three years as a postdoc in the psychology department at the University of Vienna, Austria, where he mainly studied the neural bases of primary and social reward. In 2019 he became PI of a Stand-Alone grant by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) to investigate the role of facial feedback in emotion recognition using neuromuscular electric stimulation. Since January 2020 he has been a lecturer in the Department of Psychology of the University of Essex, where he directs a small laboratory.

In his research, his is particularly interested in understanding how proprioceptive information about our own body (e.g. facial feedback) is generated and how it contributes to processing, recognition, and awareness of emotions in others (e.g. facial expressions).