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ProfessorKlaus Kessler

Full Professor

School of Psychology

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  • Full Professor
    School of Psychology
  • +353 (0)17168189
  • University College Dublin, School of Psychology, Newman Building Belfield Dublin 4

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Klaus uses various neuroscience methods such as MEG, EEG, TMS, tES and eye-tracking with a recent focus on Neuro-VR to understand typical and atypical cognitive mechanisms and their implementation in the brain. Of particular interest are the embodied origins of high-level cognitive processes such as perspective taking, mentalizing, theory of mind, decision making, episodic and navigation memory.


NOTE: If you are interested in a final year project, a masters project, or a PhD project under my supervision, please get in touch.

GRANTS

  • PROJECT GRANT
    UCD Human-AI Interaction Symposium: Recognising the Voice of Arts and Humanities
    University College Dublin (UCD)7 Apr 2026 - 7 Oct 2027
    People funded by this grant:
  • GRANT
    A Neuro-VR intervention/assessment for older drivers
    RAC Research Foundation and Rees Jeffreys Road Fund1 Dec 2020 - 31 May 2022
    Research Grant
  • GRANT
    Memory enrichment by social context: A virtual reality EEG research project
    Leverhulme Trust1 Feb 2019 - 31 Dec 2022
    Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship awarded to Samantha Gregory (Kessler: Mentor)
  • GRANT
    Gender differences and emotion regulation in autism
    Birmingham Childrens Hospital Research Foundation1 Jan 2017
    PhD Scholarship
  • GRANT
    Aston Laboratory for Immersive Virtual Environments (ALIVE)
    Eranda Foundation1 Apr 2015 - 31 Mar 2016
    Equipment Donation
  • GRANT
    Attentional switching flexibility in older adults: neural mechanisms, relation to driving and rehabilitation potential
    Rees Jeffreys Road Fund1 Jan 2015 - 31 May 2018
    PhD scholarship contribution
  • GRANT
    Developing Virtual Reality Teaching Capacity at Aston University
    Higher Education Funding Council for England1 Jan 2015 - 31 Dec 2016
    Infrastructure Grant
  • GRANT
    Aston Laboratory for Immersive Virtual Environments (ALIVE)
    Wolfson Foundation1 Jan 2014 - 31 Dec 2016
    Infrastructure Grant
  • GRANT
    Investigating the neural basis for checking, selective attention and working memory in obsessive compulsive disorder, through MEG and TMS
    Medical Research Council1 May 2013 - 30 Apr 2015
    Research Grant
  • GRANT
    Building multi-site clinical research capacity in Magnetoencephalography (MEG)
    Medical Research Council1 Apr 2013 - 31 Mar 2019
    MRC Partnership Research Grant
  • GRANT
    Understanding the two forms of Visuo-Spatial Perspective Taking: “I know what you can see” versus “I see the world through your eyes”
    Economic and Social Research Council1 Apr 2011 - 31 Mar 2013
    Research Grant
  • GRANT
    Social interaction: A cognitive-neurosciences approach
    Economic and Social Research Council1 Sep 2007 - 31 Aug 2011
    Large ESRC Research Grant (MRC co-funded)
  • GRANT
    Cortical Networks for Flexible Organisations
    Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council1 Nov 2006 - 31 Oct 2009
    Research Grant
  • GRANT
    Gender processing of lexically specified vs stereotypical nouns: An EEG study
    Economic and Social Research Council1 Sep 2006 - 31 Aug 2007
    Research Grant