Laura Singh

Thunberg Fellow, SCAS.
Postdoctoral Researcher in Experimental Psychopathology, Uppsala University


Laura Singh is a Researcher in Experimental Psychopathology at the Department of Psychology,
Uppsala University, and a Thunberg Fellow at the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study. Her
research focusses on the neural mechanisms of emotional memory and optimism, translating
findings from basic science to clinical application.

Singh received her Psychology Master’s degree from Justus Liebig University Giessen. She
then moved to Switzerland for her PhD, which included a research stay at the Donders Insti-
tute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Nijmegen. In 2018, she successfully defended her
PhD thesis ‘Where Expectation Meets Attention: The Dynamic Interplay between Optimism
Bias and Attention Bias’ at the University of Bern. Prior to joining the Emotional Mental Imagery
Lab at Uppsala University with a Fellowship from the Swiss National Science Foundation, she
was a postdoctoral researcher at Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm. Her research has been
published in e.g. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, Brain Imaging and Behavior, and
Translational Psychiatry.

As a Thunberg Fellow she will investigate mechanisms in memory and emotion to understand
how negative intrusive memories of trauma affect people, including how they impact people’s
positive view of the future – and how they can be modulated with a novel digital intervention.

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This information is accurate as of the academic year 2020-21.