Susanne completed her BA at the University of Jena (Germany) and her PhD at the University of Aberdeen (Scotland). As a Postdoctoral Researcher Susanne worked at the University of Groningen (The Netherlands) and the University of Louvain-La-Neuve (Belgium). From September 2011 till December 2014 Susanne was an Assistant Professor at New York University Abu Dhabi (United Arab Emirates). In January 2015 she started working at the University of Bristol (England).Susanne is interested in understanding the strategies that humans adopt when trying to make sense of each other. As a social neuroscientist, she studies aspects of person perception, person construal, and person understanding, using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) in combination with behavioral and self-report measures.