Manos Tsakiris joined Royal Holloway in 2007. He is currently Professor of Psychology at the Department of Psychology where he directs the Lab of Action & Body. From 2021, he has been the Director of the interdisciplinary Centre for the Politics of Feelings.
His research is highly interdisciplinary and focuses on how bodily and feeling states influence our self-awareness and socio-political behaviour. Manos studied psychology (BSc, Panteion University Athens, 1995-1999), philosophy (MSc in Philosophy of Mental Disorder, King's College, London, 1999-2000), and cognitive neuropsychology (MSc, UCL, 2000-2001) before completing his PhD (2006) in psychology and cognitive neurosciences at the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, UCL.
He has received the Young Mind and Brain Prize in 2014, the 22nd Experimental Psychology Society Prize in 2015, and the NOMIS Foundation Distinguished Scientist Award in 2016. From 2020 to 2022, he served as the President of the European Society for Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience. He has advised the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre and has participated as an expert on the European Commission’s Citizens’ Panel on “Tackling Hatred in Society”.
