Nadine Gogolla

Nadine Gogolla is Director at the Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry in Munich, Germany, leading the Department of Emotion Research. Previously (2014-2021) she has been Group Leader at the Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology, now Max Planck Institute for Biological Intelligence. She is also an Associate Faculty of the Graduate School for Systemic Neuroscience. Gogolla investigates the neural circuits underlying emotion to understand how the brain integrates external cues, feeling states, and emotions to make calculated behavioral decisions. Gogolla is known for her discovery using machine learning and two-photon microscopy to classify mouse facial expressions into emotion-like categories and correlate these facial expressions with neural activity in the insular cortex.