Our team

Current members

Arvid Guterstam, MD PhD, Ass Prof

Arvid Guterstam is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Clinical Neuroscience and the principal investigator of the Social Perception Lab.

Martha Paskin, MSc, PhD student

Martha Paskin has a background in applied mathematics. Her PhD project investigates gaze perception and the feeling of being stared at using motion capture and eye tracking techniques.

Ronja Löfström, research assistant

Ronja is a psychology student at KI. Her research focuses on the relationship between theory of mind and metacognitive ability in autism.

Nathalia Joukova Edholm, research assistant

Nathalia is a psychology student at KI, interested in interpersonal distance and social perception of other peoples’s gaze.

Elias Mansour, PhD, Postdoc

Elias Mansour is a postdoctoral fellow with a background in engineering. His research focuses on the role of eye movement dynamics in social perception.

Kristina Veranic, PhD, Postdoc

Kristina Veranic is a postdoctoral fellow with a background in psychology. Her research focuses on social aspects of exteroceptive versus interoceptive attention.

Sara Fontana, master student

Sara is a master student from University of Milan doing her thesis work in the lab during 2025, focusing on gaze self-perception and social cognition.

Renzo Lanfranco, PhD, Senior Researcher

Renzo Lanfranco is cognitive neuroscientist and clinical psychologist focusing on consciousness, emotion, visual perception, metacognition, self, and their disorders.

Chris Renet, MSc, PhD student

Chris Renet’s research focuses on the spatial and temporal properties of our internal models of other people’s attention.

Patricia Christian, PhD, Postdoc

Patricia Christian is a Wenner-Gren postdoctoral fellow and licensed CBT psychotherapist. Her research explores mechanisms underlying social perception in autistic individuals.

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