Andreas Keil

Andreas Keil is a Professor of Psychology at the University of Florida, affiliated with the Department of Psychology and the Center for the Study of Emotion & Attention. He holds the title of Research Foundation Professor and has served as a faculty member since 2012. His academic journey includes earning a PhD from the University of Konstanz (2000) and habilitation (2003). Keil's research focuses on how perception is shaped by internal states, emotions, and learning, utilizing EEG, fMRI, and behavioral paradigms.

• Education: Diplompsychologe (1997), PhD 'Summa Cum Laude' (2000), Habilitation (2003)
• Key positions: Director of Behavioral and Cognitive Neuroscience (2019–present), Editorial roles in Psychophysiology and Frontiers

Research Interests: Emotion-cognition interactions, neural plasticity in sensory systems, and translational neuroscience. His work investigates how fear conditioning alters visual cortex activity and how emotional engagement affects cognitive performance.

Notable achievements: Over 200 peer-reviewed articles, grants from NIH/NIMH, NSF, and ONR. Awards include membership in the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and term professorships.

Lab collaborations span engineering, education, and medicine at UF, with global partnerships. Current projects include computational neuroscience frameworks for emotion processing and neural mechanisms of aversive learning.