Claus-Christian Carbon

Claus-Christian Carbon in Bamberg in front of the Mona Lisa

Claus-Christian Carbon (born March 23, 1971 in Schweinfurt ) is a German psychologist and has held the chair for general psychology and methodology at the Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg since 2008 .

Life

Carbon studied psychology and later philosophy at the University of Trier . From 1998, Carbon worked as a management consultant in Berlin. From 2001 he devoted himself to his doctorate in psychology (dissertation topic "Face Processing: early processing in the recognition of faces"), which he completed in 2003 at the Free University of Berlin . After academic activities at the Free University of Berlin and TU Dresden , he moved to the University of Vienna as a university assistant , where he received the Venia Docendi (teaching license) for the general subject of psychology for his habilitation thesis "On the processing and representation of complex visual objects" in 2006 .

He worked as a post-doctoral student (Post-Doc) at the University of Glasgow and as a visiting professor at the University of Warsaw ( Poland ), TU Delft ( Netherlands ) and University of Pavia ( Italy ). In 2008 he changed to the chair for general psychology and methodology at the Institute for Psychology at the Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg .

research

Carbon's research focus in basic research lies in the areas of perception , in particular empirical aesthetics , visual illusions , shape perception and the processing of faces , as well as cognitive adaptation and cognitive map research. Application-oriented research concerns the prediction of likes in the consumer area, spatial effect, cognitive ergonomics , user experience (UX), ambient assisted living (AAL) and attention in traffic .

Memberships and functions

Carbon is Editor-in-Chief of the scientific journal Art & Perception, is Section Editor of Perception and i-Perception, and Associate Editor of the scientific journals Frontiers in Psychology and Frontiers in Neuroscience. He is also the Consulting Editor of Musicae Scientiae magazine and a member of the editorial board of Advances in Cognitive Psychology and Open Psychology. He is a member of the German Society for Psychology (DGPs) and the Psychonomic Society . Carbon also took on reviewing activities for research funding institutions and foundations and for scientific journals .

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personal data
SURNAME	Carbon, Claus-Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German psychologist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH	March 23, 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH	Schweinfurt