Dana Samson

About

Dana Samson is a cognitive neuropsychologist who has worked both as clinician and researcher. She completed her PhD at the UCLouvain in 2001. She then moved to the UK where she worked as postdoctoral researcher at the University of Birmingham (2005 – 2007) and then as Associate Professor at the University of Nottingham (2007– 2010). In 2010, she came back to UCLouvain where she works now as Full Professor in the Faculty of Psychology and Educational sciences. She was awarded the New Investigator Award (Medical Research Council – UK) in 2005, the Elizabeth Warrington Early Career Prize (British Neuropsychological Society) in 2007, and the Francqui Professorship (Francqui Foundation – Belgium) in 2009. She was a Visiting Fellow at the Center for Advanced Studies of the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich in 2014 and Visiting Professor at the Department of Cognitive Science, Central European University, Budapest in 2015. From 2016 to 2024, she was Pro-rector for international affairs at UCLouvain. She directs research in affective and social cognitive neuroscience (perspective taking, theory of mind, moral cognition, social isolation, wisdom) and teaches clinical neuropsychology.

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