Stefan Breitschaft

• Haptics (Technology & Experience)
• User Experience & User Interaction
• Interaction Design
• Aesthetics
• Multisensory Perception

Niklas A. Döbler

• Human Enhancement & Transhumanism
• Exopsychology & SETI
• Psychology of space exploration
• Host of the psychology podcast: “Die Bamberger Psychokalypse” together with Prof. Dr. Claus-Christian Carbon & Dr. Marius Raab

Prof. Mark A. Elliott

• Experimental Aesthetics with a focus on composition, and inherent compositional dynamics in pictorial art
• The relationship between Dynamics and aesthetic quality in movement (dance and theatre)
• Philosophy of Aesthetics
• Gestalt Psychology
• Phenomenology, Gestalt and Aesthetics
• Art History and the culture of art
• Creating and collecting art

PhD Uwe Fischer

• Research methods, evaluation research & statistics
• Health psychology & communal psychology
• Research on emotion and identity
• Research on leisure & aesthetics
• Applied methodology in General Psychology

Itay Goetz

• Empirical Aesthetics
• The Mode of Art
• Visual Perception
• Philosophy of Aesthetics
• Ethics and Aesthetics
• Evolutionary Psychology and Art Evolution
• Creativity

PhD Vera Hesslinger

• Perception of environment, environment psychology
• Refined perception
• Aesthetics
• Body perception, embodiment
• Cognitive maps

PhD Martina Jakesch

Associate Professor Dragan Janković

• Psychological aesthetics
• Multisensory perception (cross-modal correspondences, multisensory integration)
• Emotions (affective processing, emotion-cognition interactions)
• Gestalt Psychology
• Developmental psychology (aesthetic, affective and multisensory development)
• Marketing research
• Applied arts & ergonomic design

PhD Fatemeh Khozaei Ravari

• Environmental psychology
• People behavior at public spaces
• NeuroArchitecture
• The impact of environment on human being perception, emotion and cognition
• The impact of environment on thebrain
• The mutual impact of people and environment

Lisa Koßmann

• visual perception
• multistability
• cognition

A.Univ.Prof. .(retired) PhD Rainer Maderthaner

[“Relational analysis (systematic scheme for theoretical and empirical data exploration, hypothesis testing and causal analysis, based on propositional logic)”, “Aesthetics and expression of city and landscape architeture (analysis of effects of design and composition, person-related factors and situation-related factors on the attitude towards and judgment of architeture”, “Quality of life (effect of external and internal factors on well-being”, “Sustainability research (identification of social indicators and evaluation of participatory processes/LA-21-activities”]

PhD Casey Mongoven

• Perception of tone, cognition, aesthetics
• Sonification and visualization
• Baroque music

PhD Claudia Muth

• The pleasure of having an insight (“Aesthetic Aha”)
• Dynamics of perception
• Pleasure during art perception
• Semantical instability, indeterminacy and ambiguity
• Perceptual illusions.

Mara Münder

• Acoustics - Perception, Experience & Design
• Multisensory Perception
• Aesthetics & dynamic effects
• User Experience & User Interaction
• Association Principle

Stefan Ortlieb

• Emotional design (e.g., kitsch)
• Empirical aesthetics (e.g., aesthetic appreciation and the dynamics of social motivation)
• Visual marketing (e.g., EU-funded project “Visual Marketing for SMEs”)
• Multimodal marketing (e.g., EU-funded project “Multimodal Marketing for SMEs”)
• Usability and User Experience (e.g., EU-funded Ambient Assisted Living project FEARLESS)
• Creativity and corporate innovativeness (e.g., EU-funded project “Fit for Innovation”)
• Complex problem solving (e.g., EU-funded project PROBAT)

PhD Alexander (Sasha) Pastukhov

• Visual perception and attention
• Multi-stable perception
• Dynamical aspects of perception

PhD Susanne Röder

• Evolutionary Psychology
• Human evolution and mate choice
• Attractiveness perception

PhD Sadia Sadia

• neuroaesthetics and experiential art
• practice-based arts research (PBR)
• 3D spatial audio, psychoacoustics, sound design
• transcendent and epiphanic states within encompassing aesthetic environments
• affect, environment and the anthropocene

Tobias Schneider

• Genesis and processing of facial representations and prototypes
• Optical illusions
• Applied cognition
• Paranormal beliefs
• Experimental psychology

M. A. Viktoria Sommermann

• Media Icons (main topic of the PhD thesis)
• Visual Communication
• Visual Culture
• Contemporary Art
• Virtualization
• Photojournalism

Malin Styrnal

• visual perception
• multistability
• priming

Jenny Tesch

• Game Studies & Gamification
• Interactive storytelling & nonlinear narration
• Virtual reality & Cultural heritage
• Game-based learning & Knowledge transfer

PhD Sandra Utz

• Visual perception, attention
• Neuronal basis of “Theory of Mind”
• Usage of context in language processing of children with autism spectrum disorders (analysis of eye-movement patterns)

Lena Kristina Vogl

• Innovation Communication
• User Experience Design, User Interaction
• Creativity
• Narratives
• Environmental Psychology

Assoc.-Prof. PhD Mounia Ziat

• Human haptic perception with interests in haptic device design, HCI, multisensory integration, and cognitive neuroscience.