Dr. Georgia Eleni Kapetaniou

Dr. Georgia Eleni Kapetaniou is a postdoctoral researcher at the Professorship for Social Brain Sciences.

Eleni obtained her Bachelor’s degree in Psychology from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. After specializing in the fields of cognitive and experimental psychology, she moved to Umeå, Sweden to pursue a double Master’s degree in Psychology and Cognitive Science. During her studies, she interned at the Zurich Center for Neuroeconomics (UZH) researching learning and decision-making and worked as a research assistant at the Department of Management, Technology, and Economics at ETH Zurich, where she explored topics such as empathy, time perspective, and strategic decision-making. Eleni holds a second Master’s degree in Decision Support and Risk Analysis from Stockholm University, Sweden, where she investigated the impact of framing effects on decision analysis for strategic decision-making. Eleni obtained her PhD. at the Graduate School of Systemic Neurosciences at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München in Germany, specializing in Cognitive and Behavioral Neuroscience. During her doctoral research, she studied the neural basis of self-control in intertemporal decisions, using various methodological perspectives, including behavioral, pharmacological and neurophysiological approaches.

Eleni’s research focuses on factors affecting cost-benefit decision-making, such as intertemporal decisions, or decisions to invest effort for attaining a reward. Additionally, she is interested in the metacognitive processes that support individual and social choices and how metacognitive ability can influence our behavior and actions, especially in social contexts. Her work primarily involves neurostimulation (tDCS, tACS) and neuroimaging (fMRI, EEG) methods.