CURRICULUM VITAE - Department of Psychology - Royal Holloway ...

ROYAL HOLLOWAY
University of London
CURRICULUM VITAE
1. PERSONAL DETAILS
EMMANOUL (MANOS) TSAKIRIS (manos.tsakiris@rhul.ac.uk)
2. EDUCATION & QUALIFICATIONS
2006 PhD, Department of Psychology, University College London
2001 MSc Cognitive Neuropsychology (Distinction), University College London
2000 MSc Philosophy of Mental Disorder (Merit), King’s College, London
1999 BSc (Hons) Psychology, Panteion University, Athens
3. EMPLOYMENT
2013+ Professor of Psychology, Department of Psychology, Royal Holloway University of
London
2010‐12 Reader in Neuropsychology, Department of Psychology, Royal Holloway University of
London
2009‐10 Senior Lecturer, Department of Psychology, Royal Holloway University of London
2007‐9 Lecturer, Department of Psychology, Royal Holloway University of London
2006‐7 Post‐doctoral Research Fellow, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, UCL
2005‐6 ESRC Post‐doctoral Fellow (PI), Wellcome Department of Imaging Neuroscience, UCL
Research
4. RESEARCH INTERESTS
Research Areas of Expertise: Self‐processing and self‐awareness; multisensory processing;
body‐ and action awareness; self‐recognition; face –perception; interoceptive processing
and interoceptive awareness; social cognition and embodiment
Research methods: Psychometrics; psychophysics; psychophysiology (GSR, HR);
electroencephalopgraphy (EEG); functional neuroimaging (fMRI); transcranial magnetic
stimulation (TMS)
5. REFEREED JOURNAL ARTICLES
1. Farmer H, McKay R & Tsakiris M (in press). Trust in me: trustworthy others are seen as more
physically similar to the self. Psychological Science.
2. Apps M, Tajadura‐Jiménez A, Sereno M, Blanke O & Tsakiris M (in press). Plasticity in unimodal
and multimodal brain areas reflect multisensory changes in self‐face identification. Cerebral Cortex
3. Ainley V, Maister L. Brokfeld J, Farmer H & Tsakiris M (in press). More of myself: manipulating
interoceptive awareness by heightened attention to bodily and narrative aspects of the self.
Consciousness & Cognition
4. Durlik C, Brown G & Tsakiris M (in press). Enhanced interoceptive awareness during anticipation
of public speaking is associated with Fear of Negative Evaluation. Cognition & Emotion
5. Tajadura‐Jiménez A & Tsakiris M (2013). Balancing the “inner” and the “outer” self:
interoceptive sensitivity modulates self‐other boundaries. Journal of Experimental Psychology:
General, in press (IF:3.986)

6. Maister L & Tsakiris M (2013) My Face, My Self: Cultural Differences in Integrated Bodily Self‐
Awareness. Cognitive Neuroscience. In press
7. Apps, M.A.J. & Tsakiris, M. (in press). The free‐energy self: A predictive coding account of selfrecognition.
Neuroscience and Biobehavioural Reviews. Feb 15. (IF:8.65)
8. Maister, L., Sebanz, N., Knoblich G., & Tsakiris , M. (2013) Experiencing ownership over a darkskinned
body reduces implicit racial bias. Cognition , 128 (2), 170‐178 (IF:3.16)
9. De Coster L, Verschuere B, Goubert L, Tsakiris M, Brass M. (2013) I suffer more from your pain
when you act like me: Being imitated enhances affective responses to seeing someone else in pain.
Cogn Affect Behav Neurosci. [Epub ahead of print] (IF: 3.56)
10. Ainley V & Tsakiris M. (2013) Body‐conscious Interoceptive sensitivity, measured by heartbeat
detection, is negatively correlated to self‐objectification. PLoS ONE.;8(2):e55568 (IF: 4.411)
11. Maister, L., Banissy, M. J., & Tsakiris, M. (2013). Mirror‐touch synaesthesia changes
representations of self‐identity. Neuropsychologia, 51 (5), 802‐808 (IF: 3.63)
12. Cardini F, Tajadura‐Jimenez A, Serino A & Tsakiris M. (2013) “It feels like it’s me: interpersonal
multisensory stimulation changes somatosensory processing of shared tactile stimuli” Journal of
Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance. In press (IF:3.061)
13. Maister L & Tsakiris M. (2012) I Feel Your Fear: Shared Touch Between Faces Facilitates
Recognition of Fearful Facial Expressions. Emotion. 13(1):7‐13 (IF: 3.875)
14. Tajadura‐Jimenez, Coleman R, Longo M & Tsakiris M.(2012) The person in the mirror: using the
enfacement illusion to investigate the experiential structure of self‐identification. Consciousness &
Cognition. 21(4), 1725‐38. (IF:2.308)
15. Apps, M.A.J., Tajadura‐Jiménez, A., Turley, G,. & Tsakiris, M. (2012). The different faces of one’s
self: an fMRI study into the recognition of current and past self‐facial appearances. Neuroimage. 63,
1720–1729 (IF: 5.895)
16. Ainley, V., Tajadura‐Jiménez, A., Fotopoulou, A. & Tsakiris, M. (2012). Looking into myself: The
effect of self‐focused attention on interoceptive sensitivity. Psychophysiology. 49(11):1504‐8
(IF:3.29)
17. Tajadura‐Jiménez, A., Grehl, S., Tsakiris, M. (2012). The other in me: Interpersonal multisensory
stimulation changes the mental representation of the self. PLoS ONE. 1371/journal.pone.0040682.
(IF: 4.411)
18. Farmer, H., Tajadura‐Jiménez, A., & Tsakiris M. (2012). Beyond the colour of my skin: How skin
colour affects the sense of body‐ownership. Consciousness and Cognition, 21, 1242‐1256. (IF:2.308)
19. Tajadura‐Jiménez, A., Väljamäe, A., Toshima, I., Kimura, T., Tsakiris, M., Kitagawa, N. (2012).
Action sounds recalibrate perceived tactile distance. Current Biology, 22(13), R516. (IF:9.647) [joint
lead authorship]
20. Farmer, H. & Tsakiris, M. (2012). The Bodily Social Self: A Link Between Phenomenal and
Narrative Selfhood. Review of Philosophy and Psychology. 3, 125–144.
21. Fotopoulou A, Jenkinson PM, Tsakiris M, Haggard P, Rudd A, Kopelman MD.(2011). Mirror‐view
reverses somatoparaphrenia: dissociation between first‐ and third‐person perspectives on body
ownership. Neuropsychologia. 49(14):3946‐55. (IF: 3.63)
22. Tajadura‐Jimenez A Pantelidou G, Rebacz P, Västfjäll D, Tsakiris M. (2011). I‐space: the effects of
emotional valence and source of music on interpersonal distance. PLoS One. 6(10):e26083 (IF: 4.411)
23. Tsakiris M, Tajadura‐Jimenez A & Costantini M (2011). Just a heartbeat away from one’s body:
interoceptive sensitivity predicts malleability of body representations. Proceedings of the Royal
Society, B, Biological Sciences. 278(1717):2470‐6 (IF: 5.415)
24. Tsakiris M, Longo MR & Haggard P (2010). Having a body versus moving your body: neural
signatures of agency and body‐ownership. Neuropsychologia, 48(9):2740‐2749. (IF: 3.63)
25. Tsakiris M (2010). My body in the brain: a neurocognitive model of body‐ownership.
Neuropsychologia, 48(3):703‐12. (IF: 3.63)

26. Tsakiris M, Carpenter L, James D, & Fotopoulou A. (2010). Hands only illusion: multisensory
integration elicits sense of ownership for body parts but not for non‐corporeal objects. Experimental
Brain Research. 204(3):343‐52 (IF:2.395)
27. Kammers MPM, Longo MR, Tsakiris M, Dijkerman HC, Haggard P (2009) Specificity and
coherence of body representations. Perception , 38, 1804‐20 (IF: 1.29)
28. *Longo MR, Kammers MPM, Gomi H, Tsakiris M, Haggard P (2009) Contraction of body
representation induced by proprioceptive conflict. Current Biology,19, R727 ‐ R728 (IF:9.647)
29. *Longo MR, Schüür F, Kammers MP, Tsakiris M, Haggard P. (2009) Self‐awareness and the body
image. Acta Psychologica (Amsterdam), 32, 166‐72. [MT co‐designed, co‐wrote the paper] (IF:2.255)
30. Haggard P & Tsakiris M.(2009) The experience of agency: feeling, judgment and responsibility.
Current Directions in Psychological Science, 18, 4, 242‐246. (IF: 3.929)
31. Tsakiris M (2008). Looking for myself: current multisensory input alters self‐face recognition.
PLoS ONE 3(12):e4040. (IF: 4.411)
32. Tsakiris M, Costantini M & Haggard P (2008). The role of the right temporoparietal junction in
maintaining a coherent sense of one's body. Neuropsychologia, 46, 3014‐8. (IF: 3.63)
33. De Preester H & Tsakiris M (2008) Body‐extension versus body‐incorporation: Is there a need
for a body‐model Phenomenology & Cognitive Sciences,8, 307‐319 (IF: N/A)
34. Fotopoulou A, Tsakiris M, Haggard P, Vagopoulou A, Rudd A, Kopelman M. (2008) The role of
motor intention in motor awareness: an experimental study on anosognosia for hemiplegia. Brain,
131,3432‐42. (IF: 9.457)
35. Longo M, Schüür F, Kammers MPM, Tsakiris M & Haggard P. (2008) What is Embodiment A
Psychometric Approach. Cognition, 107, 978‐98. (IF:3.16)
36. Tsakiris M , Schütz‐Bosbach S & Gallagher S (2007) On agency and body‐ownership:
phenomenological and neurocognitive reflections. Consciousness & Cognition, 16, 645‐60. (IF:2.308)
37. Tsakiris M, Hesse M, Boy C, Haggard P & Fink GR (2007) Neural correlates of body‐ownership: a
sensory network for bodily self‐consciousness, Cerebral Cortex, 17, 2235‐2244 (IF: 6.544)
38. Tsakiris M, Prabhu G & Haggard P (2006). Having a body versus moving your body: how agency
structures body‐ownership. Consciousness & Cognition, 15, 423‐432. (IF:2.308)
39. Tsakiris M, Haggard P, Franck N, Mainy N & Sirigu A (2005). A specific role for efferent
information in self‐recognition. Cognition, 96, 215‐231. (IF:3.16)
40. Tsakiris M & Haggard P (2005b). The rubber hand illusion revisited: visuotactile integration and
self‐attribution. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception & Performance, 31, 80‐91.
(IF:3.061)
41. Tsakiris M & Haggard P (2005a). Experimenting with the acting self. Cognitive Neuropsychology,
22, 387‐407. (IF: 2.134)
42. Tsakiris M & Haggard P (2003). Awareness of somatic events associated with a voluntary action.
Experimental Brain Research, 149, 439‐446. (IF:2.395)
6. EDITED WORKS
1. Paglieri F, Tsakiris M,Vierkant T (2009). Consciousness in a natural and cultural context.
PSYCHE 15(1)
2. Tessari A, Tsakiris M, Borghi A, Serino A, (2010). The Sense of Body. Neuropsychologia. 48(3)
[The articles appearing in this special issue have been cited over 380 times]
3.
7. CHAPTERS IN BOOKS
1. Tsakiris M (in press). What the sense of agency gives to and takes from body‐awareness . In
B Eitam & P Haggard (Eds) Human Agency: Functions and Mechanisms. Oxford University Press.
2. Tsakiris M (in press). Self and the Brain. To appear in International Encyclopedia of Social
and Behavioral Sciences (Ed. J Wright). Elsevier
3. Farmer H & Tsakiris M (2012). Touching Hands: A Neurocognitive Review of Intersubjective
Touch. In Radman Z (Ed.). “The Hand: An Organ of the Mind”. MIT Press
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4. Tsakiris M (2012). The embodied mini‐me: tracing the development of bodyrepresentations
and their role for self‐awareness. In Slaughter V & Brownell C (Eds) “Early
Development of Body Representations”. Cambridge University Press
5. Tsakiris M & Fotopoulou A (2012). Form the fact to the sense of agency. In T Vierkant (Ed.)
Decomposing the Will. Oxford University Press.
6. Tsakiris M. (2011). The experience of one’s body: ownership and dis‐ownership of bodyparts.
To appear in Gallagher S (Ed) Oxford Handbook of the Self. OUP
7. Tsakiris M & Haggard P. (2010) Neural, functional and phenomenological signatures of
intentional actions. In F.Grammont, D.Legrand & P. Livet (Eds.), Naturalizing Intention in Action.
An interdisciplinary approach, The MIT Press and ENS Editions.
8. Tsakiris M (2008). The self‐other distinction: insights from self‐recognition experiments. In
Morganti F, Carassa A, Riva G (Eds) Enacting Intersubjectivity: A Cognitive and Social Perspective to
the Study of Interactions. IOP Press: Amsterdam.
9. Tsakiris M & Frith C (2008) Self: neurocognitive approaches. In Τ Bayne, Α Cleeremans & P
Wilken (Eds.). Τhe Oxford Companion to Consciousness. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
10. Tsakiris M & Haggard P (2008) Vision, action and awareness. In Weiskrantz L & Davies M
(Eds) Frontiers of Consciousness – The Chichele Lectures. Oxford University Press
11. Tsakiris M (2007) The self and its body: functional and neural signatures of body‐ownership.
In Rossetti Y, Haggard P & Kawato M (eds.) Sensorimotor foundations of higher cognition,
Attention and Performance XXII. Oxford New York: Oxford University Press
12. De Vignemont F, Tsakiris, M & Haggard P (2005), ‘Body Mereology’. In G. Knoblich, I.
Thornton, M. Grosjean, & M. Shiffrar (Eds.), Human Body Perception from the Inside Out. NY:
Oxford University Press.
13. Τσακίρης Μ. (2004). Σώμα και πράξη:μεταξύ φαινομενολογίας και νευροεπιστημών. Στο
"Ανθρωπολογία, κουλτούρα, και πολιτική (Ετερότητες τόμος 1)", Επιμ. Χ. Δερμεντζόπουλος, Μ
Σπυριδάκης. Εκδόσεις Μεταίχμιο, Αθήνα.
8. OTHER OUTPUTS
Commentaries
1. Tsakiris M (2012) Self‐specificity of the external body. Commentary on Mark Solms’ Target
Article “The Conscious Id”. Neuropsychoanalysis (in press)
2. Longo M & Tsakiris M (2013). Merging second‐person and first‐person neuroscience.
Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 36, 429‐30
3. Tsakiris M, Fotopoulou A. (2008) Is my body the sum of online and offline bodyrepresentations
Consciousness & Cognition. 17(4):1317‐20; discussion 1321‐3
Book Reviews
1. Tsakiris M. (2010). Review of “From Axons to Identity” by T. Feinberg. Neuropsychoanalysis
(in press)
2. Tsakiris M. (2008) The inter‐acting self. Experimental Psychology, 55, 212–213
9. RESEARCH GRANTS & CONTRACTS
2011‐16 European Research Council, Starting Investigator Award, “The plasticity of the self:
experimenting with self‐identity in the face of change”, (PI, € 1,444,463 for RHUL)
2011 Bial Foundation, Portugal, Research Grant : “The neural correlates of the different
faces of one’s self” (PI, 40k € for RHUL)
2010‐13 Volkswagen Foundation, Research Grant: “Narcissus & Echo : Self‐consciousness
and the Inter‐subjective Body” (PI, 400k €, value to RHUL: 162k €).
2009‐12 ESRC First Grant: “Multisensory integration and self‐face recognition” (PI, £300k for

RHUL)
2007‐10 Volkswagen Foundation, Network Grant: “The Body‐Project” (PI,107k € for RHUL)
2007‐9 Bial Foundation, Portugal, Research Grant: “The sense of self in the brain” (PI, 40k €
for RHUL)
2008 ESF Networking Activity: “Summer School : The sense of body” (PI, 17k€ for RHUL)
2008‐9 Experimental Psychology Society, UK, Small Research Grant (PI, £2k for RHUL)
2006 Royal Society, UK, Outgoing Short Research Visit Grant (PI, £2k). UCL
2004 DAAD Research Grant (PI, 5k €) / Boehringer Ingelheim Fonds (PI,1.5k €). UCL
2002 Experimental Psychology Society, Research Study Grant (PI:£2.5k). UCL
10. ACADEMIC PRIZES, AWARDS, HONOURS
Internal, external, with dates
2005‐6 ESRC Post‐doctoral Fellowship Award “The bodily self” (PI, £32k)
2005 Novartis Foundation Bursary Scheme Award
2004 Graduate Student Award, 5th International Multisensory Research Forum, Spain
2003 Grindley Award, Experimental Psychology Society, UK,
2001‐5 Doctoral Studentship, University College London
11a. INVITED PRESENTATIONS: Label each with date, place, and clarify its nature, e.g.: an
invited keynote to a major international conference: An invited symposium/workshop
presentation; an invited presentation to another academic Dept (UK or international); an
invited presentation to a non‐academic organisation.
Date Place Nature
2013 “Behavioural and neural basis of embodied Invited Keynote
cognition”, Lille, France
Interoception and Contemplative Practice Meeting
at the Mind & Life Institute in Amherst,
Invited Symposium‐Workshop
Talk
Massachusetts, USA
Integrating Self and Other", Central European
University (CEU) in Budapest, Hungary
Invited Symposium‐Workshop
Talk
Toward a Phenomenology of the Self: An
Interdisciplinary Symposium on Experimental and
Theoretical Investigations of Consciousness and
Embodiment, New School for Social Research, New
York, USA
“Close to my body: Multisensory perspectives on
peripersonal space”, Centre for the Study of the
Senses , Institute of Philosophy, London
2012 “Bodies and Minds in Medicine”, Centre for the
Humanities and Health, King’s College London
TEDxGHENT
Department of Psychology, City University
Department of Psychology, Goldsmith College
Department of Psychology, Birkbeck College
13th Annual Conference of the International
Neuropsychoanalysis Society, Athens, Greece
Interdisiciplinary Summer Course on "Problems of
the Self" Integrating Self and Other", Central
Invited Symposium‐Workshop
Talk
Invited Symposium‐Workshop
Talk
Invited Symposium‐Workshop
Talk
Invited Talk to Non‐academic
Organization
Invited Departmental Talk
Invited Departmental Talk
Invited Departmental Talk
Invited Talk
Invited Faculty Member /
Summer School
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European University (CEU) in Budapest, Hungary
Department of Psychology, Potsdam University,
Germany
2011 Department of Psychology, University of Ghent,
Belgium
“Perception in Social Interaction”, Centre for the
Study of the Senses,
University of London's School of Advanced Study
Department of Psychology, University of Sussex
12th Annual Conference of the International
Neuropsychoanalysis Conference “Minding the
Body”, Berlin, Germany
Invited Departmental Talk
Invited Departmental Talk
Invited Symposium‐Workshop
Talk
Invited Departmental Talk
Invited Symposium
2010 Department of Psychology, University of Bristol Invited Departmental Talk
Body Representation in Physical and Virtual Reality,
Ascona, Switzerland
Invited Symposium‐Workshop
Talk
Role of Insular Cortex, RNP ERNI – HSF – Workshop,
University of Granada, Spain
Invited Symposium‐Workshop
Talk
2009 Institute of Philosophy, University of London's Invited Departmental Talk
School of Advanced Study, UK
Autumn School on Cognition, Netherlands
Invited Faculty Member
European Platform for Life, Sciences, Mind Sciences
& Humanities, Osnabruk, Germany
Invited Symposium‐Workshop
Talk
48th Conference of the Colombian Psychiatric Invited Keynote
Association, Cartagena, Colombia
Disorders and Coherence of the Embodied Self,
University of Parma, Italy
Invited Symposium‐Workshop
Talk
Consciousness of the self – Consciousness of others.
CNRS – COST, Corsica, France
Invited Symposium‐Workshop
Talk
Conference on “Enacting Intersubjectivity”, Lugano, Invited Keynote
Switzerland
Department of Philosophy, National University of Invited Departmental Talk
Colombia, Bogota, Colombia.
Department of Psychology, University of Milano– Invited Departmental Talk
Biccoca, Italy
Department of Philosophy of Science, University of Invited Departmental Talk
Milano, Italy
International Graduate School of Neuroscience, Invited Departmental Talk
RUHR, University of Bochum, Germany
MRC Clinical Sciences Centre, Imperial College Invited Departmental Talk
London
2008 Department of Psychology, University of
Invited Departmental Talk
Birmingham, UK
International research for the construction of a new Invited Keynote
philosophy of body: the 100th anniversary of
Merleau‐Ponty, Tokyo, Japan
Sense of Agency: from sensorimotor processing to
meta‐representation, Edinburgh, UK
Invited Symposium‐Workshop
Talk
Pre‐reflexive Subjective Experience and Action II,
Copenhagen, Denmark
Invited Symposium‐Workshop
Talk
Self and Other in Neuroscience and Philosophy of
Mind, Sardinia, Italy
Invited Symposium‐Workshop
Talk
Department of Psychology, University of Lille,
France
Invited Departmental Talk

2007 10th Tübingen Perception Conference, Germany Invited Symposium‐Workshop
Talk
PRESENCIA PROJECT: Body consciousness, Soria,
Spain
Invited Symposium‐Workshop
Talk
Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Invited Departmental Talk
Sciences, Leipzig, Germany
Department of Neurology, University of Athens Invited Departmental Talk
Medical School, Athens, Greece
Center for Subjectivity Research, University of Invited Departmental Talk
Copenhagen, Denmark
Brain‐Mind Institute, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale Invited Departmental Talk
de Lausanne, Switzerland
Body Representation Workshop (ESRC),
Manchester, UK
Invited Symposium‐Workshop
Talk
2006 Body‐representation, CNRS, Paris, France Invited Symposium‐Workshop
Talk
XXII Attention & Performance Meeting:
Invited Keynote
Sensorimotor Foundations of Higher Cognition.
Pizay, France
2005 Behavioural & Brain Sciences Unit, Institute of Child Invited Departmental Talk
Health, UCL, London, UK
Pre‐reflexive Subjective Experience and Action,
CREA, France
Invited Symposium‐Workshop
Talk
Action & Prediction, Collège de France, Paris, France Invited Keynote
Institut des Sciences Cognitives, Lyon, France Invited Departmental Talk
2004 British Psychological Society, Perception & Action
Group, UK
Invited Symposium‐Workshop
Talk
12b. CONFERENCE PAPERS: Label each with date, place and details of the forum (e.g.
National forum, International conference
Date Place Nature
2013 The Plasticity of the Self”, British Neuroscience
Association 2013 Festival of Neuroscience”,
Barbican, London, UK, 7‐10 April 2013
2012 8 th Federation of the European Neuroscience
Societies Annual Meeting, Spain
“Bringing the in‐depth body to the surface:
interoception, awareness and prediction”. 16th
Annual Meeting of the ASSC, University of Sussex,
Brighton, UK, July 2‐6 2012
“Mind your body: experimenting with the specificity
and plasticity of one’s body”. 24th Annual
Convention of the Association for Psychological
Science, Chicago, USA, 24‐27 May 2012
“On the perception of the body from within and
from the outside”. 1st Conference of the European
Society for Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience,
Marseille, France
13 th Meeting of the Association for the Scientific
Study of Consciousness, Berlin, Germany
Talk & Symposium organizer,
International conference
Invited Talk for Symposium,
International conference
Talk & Symposium organizer
International conference
Talk & Symposium organizer
International conference
Talk & Symposium organizer
International conference
Talk, International
conference
2009 10 th International Multisensory Research Forum, Talk, International
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City College of New York, USA
conference
Towards a Science of Consciousness, Tuscon,
Arizona, USA
Talk & Symposium organizer,
International conference
2008 Experimental Psychology Society Meeting, London, Talk, National conference
UK
2007 “The body: from experience to representation”,
Symposium at the 2nd European Cognitive Science
Talk & Symposium organizer,
International conference
Conference, 2007, Greece
10 th Meeting of the Association for the Scientific
Study of Consciousness, Oxford, UK
Talk, International
conference
2006 “Neuroscientific and Psychiatric Perspectives on the
Self”, Symposium at the 2nd INA‐WFSBP Congress
Talk & Symposium organizer,
International conference
on Psychiatry & Neurosciences, 2006, Greece
Towards a Science of Consciousness, Copenhagen,
Denmark
Talk, International
conference
2005 American and European Society for Philosophy &
Psychology. Barcelona, Spain
Talk, International
conference
5 th International Multisensory Research Forum,
Barcelona, Spain
Talk/ Prize for Best Graduate
Paper, International
conference
Cognitive Neuroscience Society, New York, USA Poster, International
conference
22 ND European Workshop on Cognitive
Neuropsychology, Bressanone, Italy
Poster, International
conference
2004 Cognitive Neuroscience Society, New York, USA Poster, International
conference
2003 Experimental Psychology Society Meeting, UCL, Poster, National conference
London, UK
6 th International Brain Research Organization
Conference, Prague, Czech Republic
Poster, International
conference
European Brain & Behavioural Sciences Conference,
Barcelona, Spain
Poster, International
conference
13a. ORGANISATION OF CONFERENCES
• “The Unfamiliar Body: Understanding the body we can never know”. 22‐23.10.2012,
Cité Internationale Universitaire de Paris, France, funded by Volkswagen Foundation.
• “Understanding the role of interoceptive awareness for cognition”, Centre for the
Study of the Senses, Institute of Philosophy, University of London, 27‐28.09.2011,
funded by Volkswagen Foundation.
• “Embodiment: from structure and function to experience”, The Berlin Meeting,
Germany, 2‐4.10.2008, funded by Volkswagen Foundation
13b. ORGANISATION OF SUMMER SCHOOLS
• Summer School: “Embodied Intersubjectivity: 1st person and 2nd person
perspectives”. 9.06‐14.06‐2013, Aegina, Greece funded by Volkswagen Foundation
• Summer School: “The sense of body, an Interdisciplinary Summer School on Body
Representations”, Bologna, Italy, 16 – 22.06.2008, funded by European Science
Foundation

13c. RESEARCH CONTRIBUTION OUTSIDE HOME INSTITUTION (such as being invited faculty
for doctoral or emerging scholars’ colloquia)
2012 Interdisiciplinary Summer Course on "Problems of
the Self" Integrating Self and Other", Central
European University (CEU) in Budapest, Hungary
Invited Faculty Member /
Summer School
2009 Autumn School on Cognition, Netherlands Invited Faculty Member /
Autumn School
Consciousness of the self – Consciousness of
others. CNRS – COST, Corsica, France
Invited Faculty Member /
Summer School
2008 Self and Other in Neuroscience and
Philosophy of Mind, Sardinia, Italy
Invited Faculty Member /
Summer School
14. EDITORSHIPS OF LEARNED JOURNALS
• Associate Editor (2010‐date): PLoS ONE
• Guest editor:
Paglieri F, Tsakiris M,Vierkant T (2009). Consciousness in a natural and
cultural context. PSYCHE, 15(1)
Tessari A, Tsakiris M, Borghi A, Serino A, (2010). The Sense of Body.
Neuropsychologia. 48(3)
External Engagement/Impact
15. ACADEMIC‐RELATED ACTIVITIES BEYOND THE HE SECTOR
(e.g., Industry, Government, Local Authority, Community, Outreach, Practice Placements
etc). In all cases clarify whether impact/influence has already been realised or is ongoing.
2013 Live Science Project, Science Museum, London, UK: The self from within and from
the outside. Duration : 3 months (Ongoing)
Wonder, Art and Science at the Barbican : Demonstration of Research to Visitors,
April (https://www.rhul.ac.uk/iquad/news/articles/bna2013.aspx )
2011 Live Science Project, Science Museum, London, UK: Demonstration of bodily
illusions that manipulate the sense of self and identity. Duration : 3 months
2009 EuroScience Open Forum, Torino, Italy : Presentation at biennial pan‐European
meeting dedicated to scientific research and innovation.
2008 Wayne McGregor’s Deloitte‐Ignite Exhibition 08, Royal Opera House, London, UK,
October: Demonstration of the Self‐Face Illusion Experiment. Over 140 members of
public participated over two days.
Administration/Leadership
16. INTERNAL POSITIONS OF RESPONSIBILITY
Department/School, Faculty, Institutional, with dates
2012+ Impact Officer, Departmental Representative at College Impact Strategy
Committee
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2013+ Member of the Psychology Research Committee
2012+ Member of the Departmental Athena Swan Working Group
2007+ Member and Reviewer of the Departmental Ethics Committee
2007‐11 Teaching Coordinator for “Brain and Behavior” Stream
2007‐11 Deputy Academic Joint Coordinator
17. EXTERNAL POSITIONS OF RESPONSIBILITY
University of London/ intercollegiate, National, International, with dates
2012+ Co‐Director, Academic Liaison and Research Coordinator, London Neuropsychoanalysis
Fund
2012+ External Examiner, BSc Neuroscience Programme, King’s College, London
2010+ Economic and Social Research Council – Peer Review College
2010+ Editor, PLoS ONE
18. MEMBERSHIPS, AFFILIATIONS, OTHER APPOINTMENTS
Professional bodies, learned societies, peer‐review activities
Professional Body/Learned Society Membership
2012+ Young Academy of Europe
2012+ Society for Neuroscience, USA
2011+ International Neuropsychoanalysis Society
2007+ Experimental Psychology Society, UK
2007+ Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness
Scientific Board Membership
2010+ Scientific Board of the Center for the Study of the Senses, Institute of Philosophy,
School of Advanced Study, University of London
Peer‐Review Activities
Grant reviewer Economic and Social Research Council (UK)
Medical Research Council (UK)
European Research Council (EU)
European Science Foundation (EU)
Fund for Scientific Research – FNRS (Belgium)
NWO Council for the Earth and Life sciences (Netherlands)
National Science Foundation (USA)
Danish Council for Independent Research (Denmark)
Swiss National Foundation (Switzerland)
General Secretariat of Research and Technology (Greece)
Volkswagen Foundation (Germany)
Ad‐hoc reviewer I am regularly reviewing manuscripts in the highest‐ranked
for the following multidisciplinary (e.g. PNAS, Current Biology), psychological (JEP, Psych
scientific journals: Science, Cognition) and neuroscientific (J Neurosci, Cerebral Cortex,
Nat Rev Neuroscie) journals:
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Reviews
Neuroscience, Current Biology, Science, Trends in Cognitive Sciences,
Cognition, Psychological Science, Psychological Review, Journal of
Neuroscience,, Neuroimage, Neuropsychologia, Cognition,

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Consciousness & Cognition, Exp. Brain Research, , Philosophical
Psychology, Phenomenology & Cognitive Sciences, Social & Affective
Neuroscience, Perception, Quarterly Journal of Experimental
Psychology, Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, Mind, Journal of
Experimental Psychology: HPP