Univ. Prof Dr. Giorgia Silani
Deputy Head - Department of Clinical and Health Psychology
Head of the Research Unit for Clinical Social Neuroscience (CSN)
T: +43-1-4277-47223
E: giorgia.silani@univie.ac.at
Office: Liebiggasse 5, 1010 Wien, Room O3.47
Office hours: on appointment
Department of Clinical and Health Psychology
Liebiggasse 5
1010 Vienna
Research interests
- Neural foundations of social cognition and social emotions
- Empathy and prosocial behaviors
- Neurodiversity (e.g. autism)
- Reward processing and clinical conditions related to it (e.g. Anorexia Nervosa)
Professional experience
| 03/2025 – present | Full Professor for Clinical Neuroscience, Department of Clinical and Health Psychology, Faculty of Psychology, University of Vienna, Austria. |
| 09/2022 – present | Deputy head of the Department of Clinical and Health Psychology, Faculty of Psychology, University of Vienna, Austria. |
| 09/2020 – 02.2025 | Associate Professor, Department of Clinical and Health Psychology, Faculty of Psychology, University of Vienna, Austria. |
| 09/2019 - 11/2019 | Collaboration of Excellence Visiting Scholar, Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati, Trieste, Italy. |
| 05/2018 – 08/2020 | Assistant Professor with tenure track and Head of the Clinical Social Neuroscience Unit (CNS unit), Department of Clinical and Health Psychology, Faculty of Psychology, University of Vienna, Austria. |
| 05/2014 - 04/2018 | Senior post-doc and Head of the Clinical Social Neuroscience Unit (CNS unit), Department of Applied Psychology: Health, Development, Enhancement and Intervention, University of Vienna, Austria. |
| 08/2010 - 12/2015 | Senior Researcher (Ricercatore a Tempo Determinato) and Head of the Collective Emotions and Social Cognitive Neuroscience Lab, Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati, Trieste, Italy. |
| 02/2007 - 07/2010 | Research Fellow (“Post-doc”), Laboratory for Social and Neural Systems Research, University of Zurich, Switzerland. |
| 06/2006 - 12/2006 | Research Fellow (“Post-doc”), Wellcome Department of Imaging Neuroscience, University College London, UK. |
| 10/2004 - 05/2006 | Visiting Doctoral Student, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London, UK. |
| 01/2002 - 02/2006 | Doctoral Student in Cognitive Neuroscience, Department of Psychology, University of Milan-Bicocca, Milan, Italy. |
| 09/1999 - 12/2001 | Clinical neuropsychologist, Neuropsychology Laboratory, Niguarda Hospital, Milan, Italy. |
| 07/1998 - 08/1999 | Clinical neuropsychologist, Neurological Rehabilitation Department, Tradate Hospital, Varese, Italy. |
Education
| 06/2017 | Habilitation for attainment of Venia Legendi in Psychology, University of Vienna, Austria |
| 02/2006 | Ph.D. in Cognitive Neuroscience (summa cum laude), University of Milan-Bicocca, Milan, Italy. |
| 02/1998 | M.Sc. in Clinical Psychology (summa cum laude), University of Turin, Italy. |
Awards and Stipends
| December 2021 | International Social Research Prize, Lugano, CH |
| 2008 | Best Poster Award at the Italian Interdisciplinary Network on Alzheimer Disease (ITINAD) conference, Italy |
| June 2002 | Best Poster Award at the AIP (Italian Psychological Association), Italy |
Certificates
| 01/2005 | Certificate of Psychotherapist upon completion of four-year postgraduate course in psychotherapy, Institute for the Person-Centered Approach (founded by Carl Rogers), Varese, Italy. |
| 09/2003 | Certificate of Clinical Psychologist, University of Turin, Italy. |
Publications
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2020
Korb, S., Götzendorfer, S. J., Massaccesi, C., Sezen, P., Graf, I., Willeit, M., Eisenegger, C., & Silani, G. (2020). Dopaminergic and opioidergic regulation during anticipation and consumption of social and nonsocial rewards. eLife, 9, 1-22. Artikel e55797. https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.55797
Bukowski, H., Tik, M., Silani, G., Ruff, C., Windischberger, C., & Lamm, C. (2020). When differences matter: rTMS/fMRI reveals how differences in dispositional empathy translate to distinct neural underpinnings of self-other distinction in empathy. Cortex: journal devoted to study of the nervous system and behavior, 128, 143-161. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2020.03.009
Bukowski, H., Boch, M., Lamm, C., & Silani, G. (2020). Is Self-Other distinction malleable? Egocentric and altercentric biases in empathy are modulated by priming attachment style and similarity mindsets. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/bpyvz
Korb, S., Götzendorfer, S., Massaccesi, C., Sezen, P., Graf, I., Willeit, M., Eisenegger, C., & Silani, G. (2020). Dopaminergic and opioidergic regulation of implicit hedonic facial reactions during anticipation and consumption of social and nonsocial rewards. bioRxiv. https://doi.org/10.1101/832196
Korb, S., Massaccesi, C., Gartus, A., Lundström, J., Rumiati, R., Eisenegger, C., & Silani, G. (2020). Facial responses of adult humans during the anticipation and consumption of touch and food rewards. Cognition, 194, Artikel 104044. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2019.104044
Feneberg, A., Forbes, P., Pronizius, E., Stijovic, A., Silani, G., Lamm, C., & Nater, U. M. (2020). Quarantunes: Vorläufige Ergebnisse einer Ecological Momentary Assessment-Studie zu den Effekten des Musikhörens auf Stresserleben und Stimmung während der COVID-19-Krise. Virtuelle Postertagung 2020 - Deutschen Gesellschaft für Musikpsychologie.
Zucchelli, M. M., Patil, I., Kool, W., Campbell, S., Fornasier, F., Calò, M., Silani, G., Cikara, M., & Cushman, F. (2020). Reasoning supports utilitarian resolutions to moral dilemmas across diverse measures. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/q86vx
Feneberg, A., Forbes, P., Lamm, C., Nater, U. M., Pronizius, E., Silani, G., & Stijovic, A. (2020). The COVID-19 crisis, stress, mood, and behaviour: an ecological momentary assessment study. Unveröffentlicht.
2019
Sharda, M., Silani, G., Specht, K., Tillmann, J., Nater, U., & Gold, C. (2019). Music therapy for children with autism: investigating social behaviour through music. The Lancet. Child & adolescent health, 3(11), 759-761. https://doi.org/10.1016/S2352-4642(19)30265-2
Riva, F., Lenger, M., Kronbichler, M., Lamm, C., & Silani, G. (2019). Age-related changes in human emotional egocentricity: evidence from multi-level neuroimaging. bioRxiv. https://doi.org/10.1101/784215
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