Dr Diana Szameitat
Honorary Lecturer - Life Sciences
Quad North 133
- Email: diana.szameitat@brunel.ac.uk
- Tel: +44 (0)1895 267050
- Life Sciences
Summary
In 2002 I obtained a MSc at the University of Tübingen, Germany. In 2006 I finished my PhD in Cognitive Neuroscience at the Max-Planck-Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany working on the Perception and Acoustics of human laughter. A part of my PhD was done at the Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK where I received a Marie Curie Host Fellowship. During my time as a post-doc and an assistant professor I worked at the Department of Affective Neuropsychiatry, University Clinic for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University of Tübingen, Germany and at the Department of Psychology, University of Surrey, Guildford, UK during which I did research on the neural correlates of laughter perception. During the pandemic I obtained a PGCE Postgraduate Certificate of Education at the University of Hertfordshire. Sind 2024 I am working as a lecturer at the CCN, Department of Life Sciences, Â鶹¹û¶³´«Ã½University London.
My current research focuses on emotional communication and social cognition in laughter. I use a variety of methods, such as behavioural methods, acoustic analysis, and fMRI
Qualifications
2002 MSc, Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen, Germany
2006 PhD in Cognitive Neuroscience, Max-Planck-Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, Leipzig, Germany
Responsibility
Module lead - PY5611 Preparation for Research
Module lead - PY 3613 Psychology of Reading and Its Impaiments
Newest selected publications
Szameitat, DP. and Szameitat, AJ. (2024) ''. Scientific Reports, 14 (1). pp. 1 - 9. ISSN: 2045-2322
Szameitat, DP., Szameitat, A. and Wildgruber, D. (2022) ''. Scientific Reports, 12 (1). pp. 1 - 12. ISSN: 2045-2322
Wildgruber, D., Szameitat, DP., Ethofer, T., Brück, C., Alter, K., Grodd, W. and et al. (2013) ''. PLoS ONE, 8 (5). pp. e63441 - e63441. ISSN: 1932-6203
Szameitat, D. (2013) 'Vocal expression of emotions in laughter', inThe Evolution of Emotional Communication From Sounds in Nonhuman Mammals to Speech and Music in Man. OUP Oxford. ISBN 10: 0191506249. ISBN 13: 9780191506246.
Szameitat, DP., Darwin, CJ., Wildgruber, D., Alter, K. and Szameitat, AJ. (2011) ''. Cognition and Emotion, 25 (4). pp. 599 - 611. ISSN: 0269-9931