Thomas is a Associate Professor with a PhD in linguistics. He is interested in olfactory perception, olfactory language, and the cognitive processes underlying language production and comprehension. He studies interactions and competition between the senses. In his research on olfactory perception, he uses electrophysiological and behavioral measures. His work on olfactory language is based upon machine learning on large text collections.

Malina is a postdoc at Stockholm University, Department of Psychology. She has a PhD in Psychology from Stockholm University and a background in Physics (BSc in Audio Engineering and MSc in Acoustics from Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Poland). Her previous research focused on electrophysiological measures of auditory and cross-modal perception and attention. In her current project she will investigate odor-cued spatial navigation and episodic memory, and compare memory representations between different senses.

Murathan is a Post-Doc Researcher at the Department of Psychology, Stockholm University. He holds a Ph.D. in Computational Linguistics from Stockholm University, an M.S. in Cognitive Science from Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey, and a B.S. in Computer Science from Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey. Murathan’s research interests lie at the intersection of machine learning, cognitive science, and computational linguistics. His doctoral dissertation focused on shallow discourse parsing and expanding the understanding of English and other languages. Currently, he is working on the "Basic Olfactory Terms: Towards a Universal Semantic Space of Odors" project where the aim is to derive representations of odors from textual data.

Nira is a researcher at Stockholm University Department of Psychology and she is affiliated at Karolinska Institute Division of Clinical Geriatrics. She has a PhD in psychology and the main focus of her research has long been on cognition and MRI neuroimaging, but perception, genetic factors, amyloid biomarkers, comorbid psychiatric disorders, clinical and socio-demographic variables are part of her research as well.

Stephen is a phd candidate, working on the neurological foundation of olfactory perception.

William studies how olfaction-based cognitive training can improve memory and other cognitive abilities. He also works with smell training as a method for recovery from smell loss. He has previously worked with cognitive training in older adults at the Karolinska Institute and holds an M.A. in psychology from Stockholm University.

Samet is a guest PhD student from Turkey, working on taste and gustation.
At SCI-LAB he investigates the multisensory perception of olfaction‘s and vision’s interaction on taste.

Teodor works as a research/project coordinator in the Sensory Cognitive Interaction Laboratory. He manages the lab´s resources, helps with carrying out research projects and support the Lab’s administration.

Marie are working as a research assistant in the project: ”Navigating the Sensory Landscape: How Our Senses Shape Spatial Memories" with Malina Szychowska (PI).

Johannes interests lies in physical and embodied interaction design, especially playful, and of course, olfactory interactions. Within Sci-Lab he is developing a platform for smell training. This includes design research, game design, and tangible interaction design. Johannes received a BA in Interaction Design from Malmö University (Sweden) and has a background as product developer and manufacturer within carpentry. He have been designing and teaching at Arduino Verkstad in Malmö, teaching design and prototyping at Malmö University, and freelancing as design consultant in various projects.

Petter’s research focus on how comprehension is reflected in the electrophysiological response called N400. He is particularly interested in the dynamics of comprehension: how meaning is incrementally built from input of linguistic units such as speech sounds, words, sentences and narratives, and how this is reflected in EEG. Petter works as an EEG technician at the linguistics department at Stockholm University where he helps linguists adapt their research questions to brain wave research. He pursues a PhD at Cognitive Science Department in Lund, with Jonas Olofsson as supervisor. He studied philosophy, psychology and cognitive science at Stockholm University.

Georgios works as a research assistant in brain imaging projects. He examines patterns of functional connectivity between early olfactory and higher brain areas as well as relationships between hippocampal subfield volume changes and olfactory ability in old age. He has previously worked on neuroimaging projects at the University of Oxford (UK) and holds an MRes in Cognitive Neuroscience from University College London (UK) and a BSc from the University of York (UK).

Peter is interested in sound and olfaction technologies, with many years of experience and expertise in programming, signal processing and virtual environment (VR) technology. He is currently developing an olfactometer designed for VR. He has constructed and built a large loudspeaker array for the highly realisting reproduction of sound environments based on higher order ambisonics. The loudspeaker array has been used in soundscape research. He is also involved in research projects on echolocation in blind individuals (how they use self-generated sounds to navigate) and has built technology used in echo-location experiments.

Robert is a former chef who studied physics and biology (civil engineer at KTH and doctor of neuroscience at KI).

His dissertation at KI was about how a part of the brain, called the basal ganglia, is affected by neuromodulation. For this purpose, he used detailed data models. Here at SCI-LAB, my project is about building more abstract models of how the sense of smell connects to different forms of memory structures.

Marta is interested in olfaction, the sense of smell. In her PhD project,she studies how disease-avoidance contributes to shaping social interactions, specifically focusing on the role of odors and odor disgust. She uses electrophysiological measures to understand the contribution of cognitive and affective components to prejudice. She enjoys EEG research, programming (Python, R, MATLAB) and finding the best statistical approaches to data. Marta received a MA in Clinical Psychology from University of Social Sciences and Humanities SWPS (Warsaw, Poland), a BA in Psychology from Marshall University (USA), and BA in Psychology from University of Debrecen (Hungary).

I work as a research assistant in a project focusing on building a computational model of olfactory memory and how it connects to semantic representations of words to facilitate odour naming. I received my bachelor’s degree in Mechanical and Aerospace engineering from Tohoku University (Japan) and masters’ degree in Systems, Control and Robotics at KTH Royal Institute of Technology (Sweden).

Mikaela works as a research assistant and focuses on the role of olfaction in the complex dynamics of perception and cognition.

Martin is an Computer Science student at Stockholm University,
currently developing tools for the study of smell training as a
method for recovery of smell loss.