Speaker
Dr. Hedwig Eisenbarth
Associate Professor, School of Psychological Sciences, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
Biography
Hedwig received her PhD in Psychology as well as her clinical training in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy at the University of Würzburg (Germany). After a post-doc at the Department of Forensic Psychiatry at the University of Regensburg and a postdoc in the Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience Lab at the University of Colorado Boulder she started her Affective and Criminal Neuroscience Lab (afcrinLab) at the University of Southampton. In 2018 she joined Victoria University of Wellington where she is now an Associate Professor in the School of Psychology. Her lab investigates how humans process emotional information and how this processing influences interpersonal behaviour, using psychophysiological methods and behavioural tasks in order to understand these processes in every-day life but also in the antisocial context.