Online Talk: "Growing Brains – Psychological Development in Context"
On Tuesday, July 1, 2025, from 1:30 to 2:30 PM (CEST), an online talk will be held by Prof. Dr. Nora Maria Raschle from the University of Zurich.
Titled "Growing Brains – Studying the Building Blocks of Human Behaviors across Space (Brain), Time (Development) and Galaxies (Social Contexts)," the presentation will offer insights into current research at the intersection of developmental psychology, neuroscience, and social behavior.
This event is part of the EUTOPIA Connected Community United Minds: A Connected Approach to Trauma, Resilience and Mental Health and welcomes participants from all academic backgrounds interested in psychological development.
Philipp Kanske is Professor for Clinical Psychology and Behavioral Neuroscience and Co-Director of the Psychotherapy Outpation Clinic at Technische Universität Dresden. His research focuses on the cognitive and affective mechanisms enabling social behavior such as emotion regulation, empathy and perspective-taking. He investigates the alterations of these processes in psychopathology and their plasticity through training and therapy using behavioral and neuroimaging methods. His work has been awarded several research prizes such as the Otto Hahn Medal of the Max Planck Society and the Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Award of the German Research Foundation. 2019/2020, Philipp Kanske was the speaker of the German Young Academy at the National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina. In 2023, he was awarded an ERC consolidator grant.
Kris Baetens is a tenure track professor at the Department of Psychology and Educational Sciences at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), teaching Biological Psychology, Clinical Interventions, and Clinical Biological Psychology in the psychology and the artificial Intelligence programs. He is chair of the Brain, Body and Cognition research Group (https://bbco.research.vub.be/) and steering group member of the Brussels University Consultation Center (https://www.brucc.be/en/), a VUB non-profit training and consultation centre that supports the training of psychologists, organizes research on effectivity of clinical interventions, and offers evidence based psychological services. As a clinical psychologist, he has experience in the treatment of substance use disorders and personality pathology. The general focus of his research is on cerebellar and prefrontal contributions to (social) sequential cognition and self-regulation, particularly applied to substance use disorders, personality pathology and autism spectrum disorders. To this end, he uses functional neuroimaging (EEG, fMRI), non-invasive brain stimulation as well as reaction time experiments and self-report measures. A relatively new research focus involves leveraging machine learning to investigate the psychopathological correlates of resting state EEG in large samples.
Professor Domenico Giacco, MBBS, PhD, FHEA