Manos Tsakiris

I completed both my BSc and MSc at the University of Padua, where I specialised in Cognitive Neuroscience and Clinical Neuropsychology under the supervision of Prof. Antonino Vallesi and Prof. Ettore Ambrosini.

I continued my training between Brescia and Rome, where I gained experience in non-invasive brain stimulation and physiological/pathological ageing. Accordingly, I joined Prof. Carlo Miniussi's laboratory at the IRCCS "The Saint John of God Clinical Research Centre" and attended a postgraduate course in Psychogeriatrics at "La Sapienza" University of Rome.

Now I am employed as a research assistant at the Department of Psychology, Royal Holloway University of London. Specifically, I am collaborating with Prof. Manos Tsakiris and Dr. Ruben Azevedo on a project which explores the effects of transcutaneous vagus nerve stimulation on interoception and empathy.

I am confident that working at the Laboratory of Action and Body will be a great opportunity for me to grow as a researcher and lay the foundations for a PhD!

Research Interests

My general research interest concerns higher-level cognitive processes. During my master's thesis project, I investigated executive functions in healthy young individuals by means of EEG. As a postgraduate intern, I was involved in several studies with Alzheimer's patients and healthy elderly individuals. I mainly focused on episodic memory and used EEG, tES, and TMS - in isolation and in combination (e.g., TMS -EEG coregistration).

My current research interest lies in the field of embodied cognition. In the future, I would like to study multisensory integration, bodily consciousness, and how the body influences the way we think, feel and behave. In this regard, interoception – our sense of the internal state of the body – certainly represents an essential aspect that I look forward to learning about.

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