Mariana von Mohr, PhD

I am a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) at the University of Kent. I am interested in how interactions between the body, brain, and social environment shape our emotions, thoughts, and behaviour.

My research focuses particularly on interoception—how the brain senses and interprets signals from the body—and on how these bodily signals contribute to the way we understand ourselves and others. I study how our social environment shapes the way we interpret bodily states, and how signals from the body, in turn, influence experiences of safety and threat.

More broadly, I am interested in how these processes help us regulate our emotions and respond to stress, and how bodily and emotional processes interact with wider social and political environments.

I use behavioural experiments, measures of bodily responses, and brain imaging to investigate these questions.