David Rudrauf

David Rudrauf is a Psychologist and Neuroscientist and currently an Associate Professor at the University of Geneva, FAPSE, and a member of the Swiss Centre for Affective Sciences. He directs the Laboratory of Multimodal Modeling of Emotion and Feeling on the Campus Biotech in Geneva. After years of research in neuroscience, neuropsychology and multimodal neuroimaging in the US and in France, his current research focuses on mathematical psychology, and on the development of his computational model of embodied consciousness (Rudrauf et al, 2017, Journal of Theoretical Biology), which is based on a synthesis of psychology linking perception, imagination, emotion, motivation and action within a general algorithm of optimization and control, and on integrating the model with Virtual Reality and robotics in order to study the normal and pathological mechanisms of the mind.

Affiliation: David Rudrauf, Laboratory of multimodal modelling of emotion-feeling, University of Geneva, Switzerland

List of Relevant Publications:

• Rudrauf D, Bennequin D, Granic I, Landini G, Friston K, Williford K. A mathematical model of embodied consciousness. J Theor Biol. 2017 Sep 7;428:106-131.
• Meuleman B., Rudrauf D. Induction and profiling of strong multi-componential emotions in virtual reality. IEEE Transactions in Affective Computing. Accepted.