Invited Speakers
Sohee Park
Sohee Park is a professor at Vanderbilt University and director of the Body, Mind, and Brain Lab. The broad goal of her research program is to understand the etiology and nature of psychosis from the intersection of clinical psychology, cognitive neuroscience and social psychology. By studying the neural basis of cognitive and social impairments across the psychosis-spectrum, she hopes to contribute towards developing effective intervention strategies for schizophrenia and related conditions.
Pavo Orepic
Pavo Orepic is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Geneva. His work focuses on the neural mechanisms underlying self-voice perception and how altered self-other voice discrimination can lead to auditory verbal hallucinations. His PhD was nominated for several awards at EPFL, including the one for the best PhD of the year. His research has already been recognized on a world-wide level and he was interviewed by several high-profile media outlets, including The New York Times twice.
Iris Sommer
Iris Sommer is Professor of Psychiatry at the University Medical Center Groningen. She is an international expert in neuropsychiatry. Her research addresses the origins of psychiatric disorders and the development of innovative treatments. Sommer trained as a physician and psychiatrist, obtained her PhD cum laude in the field of schizophrenia, and founded the Stemmenpoli (Voices Clinic) at the UMC Utrecht. In 2017, her research on hallucinations ‘Zie ik spoken’ [Do I see ghosts?], was voted public research of the year.
Sonja Kotz
Sonja Kotz is a Professor of Translational Cognitive Neuroscience at Maastricht University, The Netherlands. Her research team investigates how timing and rhythmicity shape action, perception, and speech/music processing, using peripheral and neuroimaging measures as well as computational modelling. She holds honorary professorships at the University of Leipzig and Lisbon and is a senior/associate editor for several journals (e.g., Imaging Neuroscience, Cortex, Neurobiology of Language).
Phil Corlett
Philip Corlett is Associate Professor of Psychiatry & Psychology at Yale School of Medicine, and the Director of the Belief, Learning, & Memory Lab. His research examines the neural basis of human associative learning and belief formation, relating these processes to the formation of delusional beliefs. His findings have shaped the development of a novel mechanistic model of delusion formation. Phil recently won the Translational Research Award from the International Schizophrenia Research Society.