I am an Associate Professor at Ghent University (Belgium). After a master degree in neuropsychology and cognitive psychology and a certificate in forensic sciences and psychiatry, I realized a PhD in social and cognitive neurosciences at the Université libre de Bruxelles (Belgium) with Axel Cleeremans. I stayed at University College London (UK) during one year and a half in the lab of Patrick Haggard and I obtained a Marie-Curie Individual Fellowship to realize a 2-years postdoc at the Netherlands Institute for Neurosciences (NL) with Christian Keysers and Valeria Gazzola. I have now created the Moral & Social Brain Lab.
The novelty of my scientific topics and experimental approaches, combined with my commitment to expanding neuroscience to previously unexplored populations, has had a significant impact on the scientific community. My work has been published in prestigious journals, including Nature Communications, Current Biology, American Psychologist, Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, and others. Additionally, I have successfully secured several highly competitive grants, such as the ERC Starting Grant, Interdisciplinary Research Grant, Internal Security Fund Grant, and BOF Starting Grant.
As I developed a novel methodological approach to address a critical yet unanswered question since the seminal work of Stanley Milgram, I have received many awards (e.g., Prize of Psychology, Evens Science Prize; Early Career Award in Social Neuroscience from the Society for Social Neuroscience – S4SN) and extensive worldwide media coverage (e.g., New York Times, Boston Globe, El País, BBC Reel, BBC Future, Netflix), which also includes dozens of podcasts and other scientific outreach events. My work has also been highlighted at prestigious events, including a Breakthrough Scientific Talk at the Falling Walls Foundation (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9S9PlfZ99A&t=4s ) and the Nobel Prize Dialogue (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImLvr9q24QQ&t=819s).
Book for general public
“Just following orders. Atrocities and the brain sciences of obedience” (Cambridge university Press) (langage: English, Korean, soon: Japanese)
Caspar takes a scrupulous, if occasionally bleak, look at the nexus between agency, morality, and authority, and provides some hope that it’s possible “to help people resist blind obedience.” This is an eye-opener. Publishers weekly
Among the Best Books of the Year by Cambridge University Press and Assessment.
Among the Best Of Academic Autumn Press by The New Stateman
Among the five of the best science picks, Nature
moralsocialbrain.com 