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Professor Jie Sui serves as Chair in Psychology at the University of Aberdeen, where she is a faculty member in the School of Psychology. Her office is located in the William Guild Building (Room S03), King's College, Old Aberdeen, AB24 3FX. She holds several key institutional roles including Chair of the Psychology Ethics Committee, membership on the School REF Output Group, School Research Committee, University Ethics Advisory Group, and University Promotion Committee.
Professor Sui's research focuses on cognitive and social neuroscience with particular emphasis on self-processing mechanisms. Her work explores how the self-concept influences cognitive processes, social interactions, and emotional responses. Key areas of investigation include:
- The neural representation of dynamic selves and self-culture interactions
- Self-processing in healthy aging populations
- Virtual reality applications for studying social interactions
- Behavior change mechanisms through self-referential processing
Her recent publications demonstrate a strong focus on self-prioritization effects, self-representation across different populations (including autistic individuals and new mothers), and the application of machine learning approaches to psychological research. She frequently employs cognitive neuroscience methods to investigate how self-relevance modulates attention, perception, and decision-making processes.
Professor Sui has secured significant research funding including:
- Royal Society Leverhulme Trust Senior Research Fellowship (2025-2026): 'Tracing the neural representation of dynamic selves'
- The Leverhulme Trust grant (2020-2024): 'The ubiquitous self: Testing the enhanced binding account'
- ARUK grant (2017-2020): 'Self-representation as a probe for mild Alzheimer's dementia'
In her teaching role, Professor Sui delivers courses on The Social Self at Level 4, teaches Ethics across multiple programs (Level 1, Level 4, MSc, MRes), and provides tutorials on Social Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience, and Research Methodology at Level 3.
