Klaus Scherer Editor

David Sander first studied mathematics and psychology at the University René Descartes (Paris, France), completed postgraduate studies in psychology, and received a PhD in Cognitive Science from the University Louis Lumière (Lyon, France) in 2002. He then joined the Department of Psychology at the University of Geneva (Switzerland) where he currently holds an Assistant Professor position. His main teaching and research activities concern the psychology and cognitive neuroscience of emotion. David Sander is the Scientific Coordinator of the Swiss National Centre of Competence in Research for the Affective Sciences based at the University of Geneva, and established by the Swiss government and the Swiss National Science Foundation. Klaus Scherer, born in 1943, studied economics and social sciences at the University of Cologne and the London School of Economics. Following his postgraduate studies in psychology, he obtained a Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1970. After teaching at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, and the University of Kiel, Germany, he was appointed, in 1973, full professor of social psychology at the University of Giessen, Germany. From 1985 to 2008, Klaus Scherer has held the chair of emotion psychology at the University of Geneva, Switzerland, with teaching and research activities focussing on the areas of emotion, stress, motivation, personality, and organisational behaviour. Klaus Scherer is a member of several international scientific societies and a fellow of the American Psychological Association and the Acoustical Society of America. He was an invited professor at Stanford, Berkeley, the University of Zurich, and EHESS Paris. He has been elected member of the Academia Europea and honorary foreign member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He received the lifetime achievement award of the German Society of Psychology and an Advanced Investigator Grant of the European Research Council.