Professor Morten L. Kringelbach

Professor Kringelbach is the founding director of the Centre for Eudaimonia and Human Flourishing at the University of Oxford which convenes and fosters an interdisciplinary team of philosophers, psychologists, musicians, artists, social scientists, physicists, biologists, anthropologists, and neuroscientists. He is also Professor of Neuroscience, Aarhus University 

His research goal is to reverse-engineer the human brain and in particular to elucidate the heuristics that allow us to survive and thrive. He focuses on elucidating hedonia (pleasure) and eudaimonia (the life well-lived), and how they are affected in health and disease; in particular seeking to elucidate their breakdown in anhedonia (the lack of pleasure) in neuropsychiatric disorders.