dr. Roza Kamiloğlu

Assistant Professor, Faculty of Behavioural and Movement Sciences, Social Psychology

Assistant Professor, IBBA

Personal information

My academic journey began with a full merit scholarship to Koc University in Turkey where I earned a dual degree in physics and psychology (Dean’s List) and a master’s degree in social psychology. This foundation led to an independent research position at Utrecht University, receiving the Dancker Daamen Award at the Associatie van Sociaal Psychologische Onderzoekers (ASPO) conference. I then completed my PhD in social psychology at the University of Amsterdam (2023); my thesis was awarded the Best Dissertation Award by the international Society for Experimental Social Psychology. Following my PhD, I secured postdoc positions at both the UvA and VU Amsterdam, and as of September 2024, I am an assistant professor at VU Amsterdam.

Research

My research focuses on the study of emotion, specifically on how, when, and why we produce emotional expressions. During my PhD (2023), I explored the vocal expression of a wide range of positive emotions from an ethological perspective. My current work continues to investigate the function and evolution of emotional expressions, along with their cultural and situational variations. I use a diverse range of methods, including comparative studies with non-human species, cross-cultural analysis, and advanced computational techniques like machine learning.

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