Christian Keysers#
| Membership Number: | 4303 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | PHYSIOLOGY & NEUROSCIENCE |
| Elected: | 2016 |
| Main Country of Residence: | THE NETHERLANDS |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.nin.knaw.nl |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-2845-5467 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2010 – now Department Head, Social Brain Lab, Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience (NIN), Royal Netherlands Academy for Arts and Sciences, Amsterdam, The Netherlands [tenured]
- 2014 – now Full Prof. for Social Neuroscience, Department of Psychology, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands [tenured]
- 2007 – 2014 Full Prof. for the Social Brain, University Medical Center and University of Groningen, The Netherlands [tenured]
- 2007 – 2010 Scientific Director, BCN NeuroImaging Centre, Groningen, The Netherlands
- 2005 – 2007 Associate Prof., Scientific Director, BCN NeuroImaging Centre, University Medical Center and University of Groningen, The Netherlands [tenure track]
- 2004 – 2005 Assistant Professor, BCN NeuroImaging Centre, University of Groningen, Netherlands [tenure track]
- 2000 – 2004 PostDoc, Department of Neuroscience, University of Parma, Italy [fellowship] Post-doctoral fellow with G. Rizzolatti investigating the mirror system in monkeys and humans.
Fields of Scholarship
- Neural basis of action understanding
- Neural basis of empathy
- Social neuroscience
- Neuroimaging
- Electrophysiology
Honours and Awards
- 2016 VICI grant of the NWO (1.5M€)
- 2015 Elected member of the Advisory Group for Future and Emerging Technologies (H2020)
- 2014 Elected to the Board of the Young Academy of Europe
- 2013 Elected Member to the Young Academy of Europe
- 2012 ERC consolidator grant (1780k€)
- 2012 IPPY prize Best Independent Science Book 2012 for the book the Empathic Brain
- 2005 Researcher of the Year Award of the UMCG (100k€)
- 2005 Marie Curie Excellence Grant (1.4M€)
- 2004 VIDI Grant of the NWO (1M€)
- 2004 Marie Curie Excellence Award for outstanding research (50k€)
- 2012 – now Member of Editorial Board, Phil Trans Royal Soc B
- 2006 – now Associate Editor of the journal Social Neuroscience
- 2007 – now Associate Editor of the journal Social Affective and Cognitive Neuroscience
