Christian Keysers

Christian Keysers, 2007

Christian Keysers (born June 27, 1973 in Belgium) is a Franco-German neuroscientist.

Life

Christian Keysers, son of a Franco-German father and a German mother, grew up in French-speaking Belgium. From 1987 to 1991 he attended the European School in Munich. From 1991 he studied psychology and biology at the University of Konstanz , at the Ruhr University in Bochum and in Boston. He received his PhD from the University of St Andrews in Scotland in 2000 , where he worked at David Perrett's Institute. From 2000 to 2004 he did research as a post-doctoral student with Giacomo Rizzolatti at the University of Parma , where he discovered the role of mirror neurons in touch and disgust.

Keysers is Full Professor for the Social Brain at the Medical Faculty of the University of Groningen . His main research interests are neuroimaging , neuroscience and biological psychology. He also heads the “Neurobiology of Empathy ” research group at the Social Brain Lab at the Institute for Neuroscience in Amsterdam, which is a basic research institute of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences . In January 2013 he received an ERC Starting Grant from the European Research Council . In 2016 he was elected a member of the Academia Europaea .

Fonts (selection)

• The Empathic Brain. How the Discovery of Mirror Neurons Changes Our Understanding of Human Nature , Lexington, Ky. Social Brain Press, 2011, 246 pp. ISBN 978-1-4637-6906-2 . German: Our empathic brain: Why we understand what others feel , translated by Hainer Kober, Munich Bertelsmann 2013, 320 pp. ISBN 978-3-570-00954-3
• with Wicker, B., C. Plailly, J., Royet, J., P., Gallese, V. and Rizzolatti, G. (2003): Both of Us Disgusted in My Insula: the Common Neural Basis of Seeing and Feeling Disgust . Neuron 40: 655-664, 2003
• with Kohler, E., Umiltà MA Fogassi L., Nanetti L. and Gallese V .: Audio-visual mirror neurones and action recognition 2003; PDF file; 471 kB; English

reception

• “An almost mystical connection”, SPIEGEL conversation with Christian Keysers, Der Spiegel 29/2013 from July 15, 2013

Web links

• Personal website at the Social Brain Lab (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Judith Rauch: Christian Keyser's Der Spiegelprinz . Image of science. March 15, 2005. Retrieved July 15, 2013.
2. ↑ Employee profile at the University of Groningen ( Memento of the original from July 8, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
3. ↑ Press release January 15, 2013: ERC funds its 3000th top scientist ( Memento of the original from March 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF file; English; 143 kB)