Simone Schütz-Bosbach

Prof. Simone Schütz-Bosbach is a Professor of Experimental Neuro-Cognitive Psychology at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (LMU), leading the Body Social Cognition & Action Lab. Her research focuses on human sensation, perception, and action using methodologies like fMRI, EEG, and TMS. She has held academic positions at institutions including the Max Planck Society and Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg. Her awards include the Otto Hahn Medal (2004) and a Heisenberg Fellowship (2013).

Education: Diploma in Psychology (University of Bonn, 2000), PhD (LMU Munich, 2004), Habilitation (FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, 2015). Research interests include cognitive neuroscience of action, self-other distinction, and body perception. She has explored topics like sensory attenuation, interoceptive processing, and neural mechanisms of agency.

Publications span 20+ years, with recent works on social evaluative stress, cardiac-phase effects on motor inhibition, and neural dynamics in belief updating. Her lab investigates the interplay between interoception, action, and social cognition. She collaborates internationally and engages in interdisciplinary research, bridging neuroscience and psychology.

Awards and memberships include the Junge Akademie (2008–2013), Leopoldina (2008–2013), and VolkswagenStiftung-funded European Platform for Life Sciences. Her work emphasizes embodied cognition and predictive coding frameworks to understand self-representation and action.