J. Prof. Merle Fairhurst

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Track Record

I am a multilingual researcher with vast international experience. I have published over 30peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters, with over 2000 citations, in high impact journals including Journal of Neuroscience, Psychological Science, Cerebral Cortex, Scientific Reports and Neuroimage. My work can be summarised as the application of psychophysical, physiological and neuroimaging techniques combined with novel computational modelling approaches to investigate socially rich, dynamically evolving multisensory events. Through strong interdisciplinary ties, my research pushes technological, computational and theoretical boundaries, working with computerscientists, engineers, mathematicians and philosophers.

Curriculum vitae

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2022 – heute	J. Professor Social Affective Touch Center for the tactile internet with human in the loop (CeTI), TU Dresden, Germany
2019 - 2022	Professor for Biological Psychology (Vertretung/Temporary) Institute für Psychologie, Universität der Bundeswehr München, Germany
2017 - 2022	Assistant Professor Philosophy of Mind and Munich Center for Neurosciences, LMU Munich, German
2014 - 2017	Post-doctoral researcher Centre for the Study of the Senses, Institute of Philosophy, University of London, UK
2012 - 2014	Post-doctoral researcher Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany Early Social Development Research Group
2009 - 2012	Post-doctoral researcher Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany Music Cognition & Action Research Group
2008	Postgraduate (D.Phil) FMRIB Centre, University of Oxford, UK Supervisor: Prof. Irene Tracey
2004	Undergraduate (A(Hons)/MA Physiological Sciences) University of Oxford, UK
2000	Diploma The Juilliard School of Music, USA

Reviewing Activities

2023 – present Guest Editor Computers in Human Behaviour
2023 – present Guest Editor Frontiers Psychology special issue
2022 - present Review Editor, Frontiers in Human Neuroscience Interacting Minds and Brain
2021 – present Action Editor, Psychological Research
2020 – 2021 Guest Editor SCAN special issue
2020 – 2021 Guest Editor Frontiers Psychology special issue
2007 – present Ad hoc Reviewer for Cerebral Cortex, Plos One, Journal of Neurophysiology,
Consciousness & Cognition, Journal of Psychology, Neuroimage, Psychology &
Neuroscience, Somatosensory & Motor Research, Behavioural Sciences, e-life,
Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, International Journal of
Psychophysiology, Cognition, Frontiers in Psychology, Nature Translational
Psychiatry, Nature Scientific Reports

Membership of Scientific Societies

2009 – present Society for Neuroscience

Fellowships and Awards

Warr-Goodman Graduate Scholarship LMH, University of Oxford 2004-2005
Henrietta Jex Blake LMH, University of Oxford 2005-2006
Cyclosporin Academic Award LMH, University of Oxford 2007
Young Researcher, honourable mention ICMPC 2010
Best paper, honourable mention CHI 2015 2015
LMU Excellence Seed Funding LMU, Munich 2018

Publications

48 Entries

2017

Contingent sounds change the mental representation of one's finger lengthTajadura-Jiménez, A., Vakali, M., Fairhurst, M. T., Mandrigin, A., Bianchi-Berthouze, N. & Deroy, O., 1 Dec 2017, In: Scientific reports. 7, 1, 5748Electronic (full-text) versionResearch output: Contribution to journal > Research article
Voice over: Audio-visual congruency and content recall in the gallery settingFairhurst, M. T., Scott, M. & Deroy, O., Jun 2017, In: PloS one. 12, 6, e0177622Electronic (full-text) versionResearch output: Contribution to journal > Research article
Testing the shared spatial representation of magnitude of auditory and visual intensityFairhurst, M. T. & Deroy, O., 1 Mar 2017, In: Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance. 43, 3, p. 629-637, 9 p.Electronic (full-text) versionResearch output: Contribution to journal > Research article
Alignment in social interactionsGallotti, M., Fairhurst, M. T. & Frith, C. D., 1 Feb 2017, In: Consciousness and cognition. 48, p. 253-261, 9 p.Electronic (full-text) versionResearch output: Contribution to journal > Research article

2016

Fostering Social Cognition through an Imitation- and Synchronization-Based Dance/Movement Intervention in Adults with Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Controlled Proof-of-Concept StudyKoehne, S., Behrends, A., Fairhurst, M. T. & Dziobek, I., 1 Jan 2016, In: Psychotherapy and psychosomatics. 85, 1, p. 27-35, 9 p.Electronic (full-text) versionResearch output: Contribution to journal > Research article

2015

Sensorimotor synchronization with tempo-changing auditory sequences: Modeling temporal adaptation and anticipationVan Der Steen, M. C., Jacoby, N., Fairhurst, M. T. & Keller, P. E., 11 Nov 2015, In: Brain research. 1626, p. 66-87, 22 p.Electronic (full-text) versionResearch output: Contribution to journal > Research article
As light as your footsteps: Altering walking sounds to change perceived body weight, emotional state and gaitTajadura-Jiménez, A., Basia, M., Deroy, O., Fairhurst, M., Marquardt, N. & Bianchi-Berthouze, N., 18 Apr 2015, CHI 2015 - Proceedings of the 33rd Annual CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems: Crossings. Association for Computing Machinery, p. 2943-2952, 10 p.Electronic (full-text) versionResearch output: Contribution to book/conference proceedings/anthology/report > Conference contribution
Bouba-Kiki in the plate: combining crossmodal correspondences to change flavour experienceFairhurst, M. T., Pritchard, D., Ospina, D. & Deroy, O., 2015, In: Flavour. 4, 5 p., 22Electronic (full-text) versionResearch output: Contribution to journal > Short survey/Review

2014

Physiological and Behavioral Responses Reveal 9-Month-Old Infants' Sensitivity to Pleasant TouchFairhurst, M. T., Löken, L. & Grossmann, T., May 2014, In: Psychological Science. 25, 5, p. 1124-1131, 8 p.Electronic (full-text) versionResearch output: Contribution to journal > Research article
Segregation and integration of auditory streams when listening to multi-part musicRagert, M., Fairhurst, M. T. & Keller, P. E., 24 Jan 2014, In: PloS one. 9, 1, e84085Electronic (full-text) versionResearch output: Contribution to journal > Research article