Evelina Thunell

Evelina Thunell

Research Specialist
Telephone: +46852482418
Visiting address: Nobels väg 9, 17165 Stockholm
Postal address: K8 Klinisk neurovetenskap, K8 Psykologi Lundström, 171 77 Stockholm

About me

  • My research at Karolinska Institutet focuses on human olfactory and visual perception and cognition, using behavioural, physiological, and brain imaging methods. I also teach at the Psychology program and for freestanding courses, as well as supervise student projects.

Selected publications

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Grants

  • Repetition detection as an endophenotype for schizophrenia; evaluation using schizotypy.
    Karolinska hospital
    1 January 2020 - 31 December 2020
  • Repetition detection as an endophenotype for schizophrenia
    Karolinska hospital
    1 December 2019 - 31 December 2019

Employments

  • Research Specialist, Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, 2022-
  • Researcher, Stress Research Institute, Stockholm University, 2021-2021
  • Postdoctoral Researcher, Brain Mind Institute, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, 2014-2015

Degrees and Education

  • Teaching and Learning in Higher Education (GHPD) Distance course (5 weeks), Unit for Teaching and Learning, Karolinska Institutet, 2023
  • PhD, Neuroscience, Neural correlates of non-retinotopic visual processing and light adaptation, Brain Mind Institute, Life Sciences, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, 2014
  • MSc, Engineering physics, Single-trial classification of EEG data, Department of physics, Royal Institute of Technology, 2009

Distinction and awards

  • Polak Young Investigator Award, International Symposium on Olfaction and Taste (ISOT), 2020
  • Stipend for outstanding academic results, Royal Institute of Technology, 2009

Supervisor

  • Sofie Henecke, 2022
  • Hannaneh Yazdi, 2020

Committee work

  • Vice chair, Committee for Equal Opportunities, KTH Physics department, 2004-2005

Visiting research fellowships

  • Adjunct Assistant Professor, invited position, Purdue University West Lafayette, Invited position, 2018

Journal reviewing

  • Scientific Reports, Springer Nature, Anonymous peer review, 2023-2024
  • Cognition, Elsevier, Anonymous peer review, 2021-2021
  • PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE, Anonymous peer review, 2021-2021
  • Journal of Vision, Anonymous peer review, 2021
  • Meta-Psychology, Anonymous peer review, 2020-2020
  • CONSCIOUSNESS AND COGNITION, Anonymous peer review, 2019
  • PLOS ONE, Anonymous peer review, 2016-2016

Other expert reviewer/evaluation assignment

  • Reviewer or advisor for other scientific bodies, Abstract reviewer, European Conference on Visual Perception, 2021-2021
  • Reviewer or advisor for other scientific bodies, Reviewer: High-school science project competition "Utställningen Unga Forskare", Förbundet Unga Forskare, 2020-2021
  • Reviewer or advisor for other scientific bodies, Committee member of the Internal ethics committee., École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, 2011-2012

Conference/event participation

  • Oral presenter of own accepted abstract, International Symposium on Olfaction and Taste, https://www.achems.org/ISOT/awards.php, 2020
  • Oral presenter of own accepted abstract, European Conference on Visual Perception, 2018

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