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Dr Christoph Teufel is a Reader in Cognitive Neuroscience at Cardiff University’s School of Psychology, where he also serves as joint Lead for Cognitive Neuroscience alongside Dr A. Bompas. His research integrates psychophysics, neuroimaging, and computational modeling to investigate how the brain organizes sensory information, forms predictions, and supports social cognition in both healthy individuals and clinical populations.
Education:
- 2005 – German equivalent of BSc and MPhil in Biology, Free University of Berlin & Max-Planck-Institute of Evolutionary Anthropology
- 2006 – MPhil Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge
- 2009 – PhD Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge
Research Interests:
Dr Teufel’s work is organized around three interlocking themes:
- Perceptual Organisation: How local neural responses are integrated into coherent global percepts, with emphasis on top-down modulation.
- Perception and Learning: How organisms acquire and update internal models under perceptual uncertainty, using machine-learning approaches.
- Face Perception & Social Neuroscience: How facial and bodily cues are integrated to guide social behavior, studied with psychophysics and neuroimaging.
Recent Publication Trends:
Between 2020 and 2024 his output has concentrated on predictive coding models of delusions and hallucinations, the role of prior knowledge in perception, eye-movement control during scene viewing, and white-matter correlates of social perception, reflecting a sustained focus on translating computational principles into clinical neuroscience.
Scientific Awards & Honors:
- Katharina-Heinroth-Award (2005)
- College Research Associate, Clare College, University of Cambridge (2009–2014)
- Elected Member, European Platform for Life Sciences, Mind Sciences, and the Humanities, VW Foundation (2010–2014)
Supervision & Grants:
Dr Teufel currently supervises six PhD students and has mentored numerous postdocs. Major funding includes a £95k MRC PhD studentship on multimodal neuroimaging of psychosis, VW Foundation and Isaac Newton Trust grants, and Wellcome Trust mobility awards totalling over £180k.
Collaborations & Infrastructure:
He collaborates with investigators at Cardiff, Cambridge, KU Leuven, ANU, and Auckland, leveraging the Cardiff University Brain Research Imaging Centre (CUBRIC) for state-of-the-art neuroimaging.
