Henrik Ehrsson is a professor at the Department of Neuroscience at the Karolinska Institutet and is the principal investigator of the Brain, Body and Self Laboratory.

email: henrik.ehrsson @ ki.se
office phone: (+46) 8 524 87 231

Agnes Ehrsson is a part-time research assistant in the lab, assisting Henrik Ehrsson with research coordination and administrative duties.

email: agnieszka.miedzinska @ ki.se

Martti has a M.Sc. Degree in Mechanical Engineering from KTH in the field of Mechatronics. He is a Research Engineer at the Department for Neuroscience. Click here for more information about Martti and his work in the lab.

email: martti.mercurio @ ki.se
office phone: (+46) 8 524 87 204

Heather is a postdoctoral fellow in the lab and her research is focused on how bodily self-consciousness shapes memory for past events.

email: heather.iriye @ ki.se
office phone: (+46) 8 524 87 984

Zakaryah is a lecturer in neuroscience investigating the neural and behavioural links between body ownership, agency, and voluntary action.

email: zakaryah.abdulkarim @ stud.ki.se
office phone: (+46) 8 524 87 217

Renzo is a postdoctoral fellow in the lab and his research focus focuses on the computational and neural mechanisms of conscious awareness and multisensory integration in the sense of body ownership. He is also interested in consciousness research, high-level visual perception, face perception, emotion processing, metacognition, and psychopathology.

email: renzo.lanfranco @ ki.se
office phone: (+46) 8 524 87 989

Mariano is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the lab and his research focus on the relationship between multisensory temporal resolution and body ownership. He is also interested in peripersonal and interpersonal space and how one’s own body representation may affect social interpersonal attitudes.

email: mariano.dangelo @ ki.se
office phone: (+46) 8 524 87 217

Dr. Shuyan Xu is a Postdoctoral Fellow researching the sense of body ownership from the perspective of perceptual learning, employing computational modeling and neuroimaging.

email: shuyan.xu @ ki.se
office phone: (+46) 8 524 87 217

Dr. Yatong Wen is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the lab, conducting neuroimaging and behavioral research on the perception of entire bodies as one's own.

email: yatong.wen @ ki se
office phone: (+46) 8 524 87 984

Sara Coppi is a PhD student in the lab who is investigating the multisensory mechanisms of body ownership and pain perception. Sara has previously conducted a six-months internship in our lab for her master's degree in Cognitive Neuroscience and Clinical Neuropsychology at the University of Padova, Italy, and also a one-year position as a research assistant.

email: sara.coppi @ ki.se
office phone: (+46) 8 524 87 989

Angelo Pisani is a psychology student from the University of Bologna, conducting an internship in the lab as part of his PhD’s thesis. Angelo is working with Mariano D’Angelo on a project about mental time travel and self-perception.

email: angelo.pisani @ ki se
office phone: (+46) 8 524 87 217

August Hägerdal is a medical student at the Karolinska Institutet that is conducting an internship in the lab. August is working with Renzo Lanfranco and Henrik Ehrsson on a project about rubber hand illusion and EEG.

email: august.hagerdal @ stud.ki.se

Ludwig Lundstedt is a master’s student in cognitive science at Umeå University. He is conducting a summer internship with us, investigating the nociceptive rubber hand illusion under the supervision of Sara Coppi and Henrik Ehrsson. Ludwig also completed a master’s thesis with us in the spring of 2024, during which we conducted a meta-analysis of neuroimaging studies.

email: lulu0408 @ student.umu.se

Annamari Saarinen is a medical student at Karolinska Institutet. She is currently conducting a summer research internship, investigating the rubber hand illusion using psychophysics under the supervision of Renzo Lanfranco and Henrik Ehrsson.

email: annamari.mikaela.saarinen @ stud.ki.se