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Benjamin Becker is currently a Full Professor at The University of Hong Kong (HKU,Department of Psychology) and Agreement Professor at the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC,School of Life Science and Technology). He received his Master and PhD Degrees at the Universities of Trier and Duesseldorf in Germany and underwent further training in Affective Neuroscience and advanced neuroimaging at the University of Bonn (Germany) before he established independent research teams at the UESTC and HKU. 

 

His research aims to explore how the human brain generates and regulates emotional experiences, how these processes become dysfunctional in mental disorders and how these processes can be modulated by innovative technological and pharmacological means. To this end, his team capitalizes on an entire array of strategies, including advanced neuroimaging, Al-inspired neural decoding, real-time fMRI neurofeedback and pharmacological neuroenhancement (oxytocin,angiotensin l,etc)...