Organizers

Fabiola Diana (Organizer) is a Ph.D. candidate at Leiden University (The Netherlands). Her research interest includes the evolution of social behavior from animals to robots, affective neuroscience, psychophysiology, and human-robot interaction. In her Ph.D. project, she investigates physiological synchrony and emotional mimicry, and how these phenomena shape trust and cooperation during face-to-face interaction with humans and robots. In her research, she combines behavioral and various psychophysiological methods. 

Mariska E. Kret (Organizer) is a Full Professor in comparative psychology and affective neuroscience at Leiden University, The Netherlands, and leads the CoPAN lab. Her research focuses on emotions in humans and great apes.  In her ERC Starting project, she investigates the role of emotional expressions in the establishment of trust. Her VIDI extends that research to clinical populations (autism and social anxiety disorder). In her research, she typically combines different methods including fMRI, psychophysiology, and behavioral observations. 

Joost Broekens (Organizer) is an Associate professor and head of the Affective Computing and Human-Robot Interaction group at the Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science (LIACS) of Leiden University, The Netherlands. His research interests include computational modeling of emotions in reinforcement learning, emotion psychology, emotions in computer games, human perception and effects of emotions expressed by virtual agents and robots, emotional and affective self-report, human-robot, and human-agent interaction.