Email: henryk.bukowski at uclouvain.be • Website: henrykbukowski.com • Birth: 1st Feb 1986 (Brussels, BE)
EDUCATION                                                                                                                        
  • 2010-2014 : Ph.D. in Psychological Sciences (87.55%), Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium. Thesis title: What influences perspective taking? A dynamic and multidimensional approach. Supervisor: Dr. Dana Samson.
  • 2007-2009 : Master’s degree in Psychological Sciences (Grande distinction), Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium. Thesis title: What executive functions tell us about the cognitive regulations of emotions? A neurocognitive perspective. Supervisor: Dr. Pierre Philippot.
  • 2004-2007 : Bachelor’s degree in Psychological Sciences (Distinction), Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium. Thesis title: What role does the frontal lobe play in violence?

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
  • 03/2021 – ... : Scientific advisor, Federal Public Service of Public Health, Brussels, Belgium.
  • 10/2020 – 02/2020 : Post-doctoral researcher, Centre de Recherche en Défense Sociale, Tournai, Belgium. Supervisor: Pr. Thierry Pham.
  • 01/2018 – 12/2019 : Post-doctoral researcher, Psychological Sciences Research Institute, Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium. Supervisor: Pr. Dana Samson.
  • 10/2014 – 12/2017 : Post-doctoral university research assistant, Social, Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience Unit, University of Vienna, Austria. Supervisor: Pr. Claus Lamm.
  • 10/2010 – 10/2014 : Ph.D. student, Psychological Sciences Research Institute, Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium. Supervisor: Pr. Dana Samson.
  • 06 - 07/2011 : Visiting researcher, Brain & Creativity Institute (A. Damasio & H. Damasio), University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA.
  • 09/2009 – 9/2010 : Intern researcher, Psychological Sciences Research Institute, Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium. Supervisor: Dr. B. Rossion. 
  • 02/2008 – 06/2008: Intern researcher, Brain & Creativity Institute (A. Damasio & H. Damasio), University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA. Supervisor: Pr. L. Aziz-Zadeh.

AWARDS & HONORS
  • 2021: Postdoctoral fellowship (2 years), Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions, European Commission.
  • 2018: Best poster award, Normal and pathological personality colloquium, University of Mons, BE.
  • 2018: Top 3 of Best University Teachers (as rated by 80.7% of former students), University of Vienna, Austria.
  • 2018: Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions Seal of Excellence, European Commission.
  • 2017: Postdoctoral fellowship (2 years), Move-In Louvain, Université catholique de Louvain, BE.
  • 2015: Best poster award, Social Cognition Workshop, University of Bangor, UK.
  • 2014: Travel award, IAS Social Cognition Workshop, University of Surrey, UK.
  • 2013: Fellowship, Social Cognitive Neuroscience International Summer School, SISSA, Trieste, Italy.
  • 2011: Fellowship, NIMH Summer Institute in Cognitive Neuroscience, UC Davis & Santa Barbara, USA.
  • 2010: Doctoral fellowship (4 years), Fond National de la Recherche Scientifique (FNRS), aspirant mandate.
  • 2010: Grant, Experimental Psychology Society, Grindley Grant for Conference Attendance.
 
PUBLICATIONS
Articles:
  1. Bukowski, H., Todorova, B., Boch, M., Silani, G., & Lamm, C. (2021). Socio-cognitive training impacts emotional and perceptual self-salience but not self-other distinction. Acta Psychologica, 216, 103297. doi:10.1016/j.actpsy.2021.103297
  2. Bukowski, H., & Samson, D. (2021). Automatic imitation is reduced in narcissists but only in egocentric perspective-takers. Acta Psychologica, 213, 103235. doi:10.1016/j.actpsy.2020.103235
  3. Bukowski, H., Tik, M., Silani, G., Ruff, C., Windischberger, C., & Lamm, C. (2020). When differences matter: rTMS/fMRI reveals how differences in dispositional empathy translate to distinct neural underpinnings of self-other distinction in empathy. Cortex, 128, 143–161. doi:10.1016/j.cortex.2020.03.009
  4. Bukowski, H. (2018). The Neural Correlates of Visual Perspective Taking: a Critical Review. Current Behavioral Neuroscience Reports, 1-9. doi:10.1007/s40473-018-0157-6
  5. Tik, M., Hoffmann, A., Sladky, R., Tomova, L., Hummer, A., Navarro de Lara, L., Bukowski, H., Pripfl, J., , Biswal, B., Lamm, C., & Windischberger, C. (2017). Towards understanding rTMS mechanism of action: Stimulation of the DLPFC causes network-specific increase in functional connectivity. NeuroImage, 162(September), 289–296. doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2017.09.022
  6. Bukowski*, H., Deliens*, G., Slama, H., Surtees, A., Cleeremans, B., Samson, D., & Peigneux, P.  The Impact of Sleep Deprivation on Visual Perspective-Taking. Early View in Journal of Sleep Research. doi:10.1111/jsr.12595
  7. Bukowski, H., & Samson, D. (2017). New insights into inter-individual variability in perspective taking. Vision, 1(1), 8. doi:10.3390/vision1010008
  8. Bukowski, H., Hietanen, J., & Samson, D. (2016). From gaze cueing to perspective taking: Revisiting the claim that we automatically compute where or what other people are looking at. Visual Cognition, 23(8), 1020–1042. doi:10.1080/13506285.2015.1132804
  9. Lamm, C., Bukowski, H., & Silani, G. (2016).  From shared to distinct self-other representations in empathy: evidence from neurotypical function and socio-cognitive disorders. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London B: Biological Sciences, 371(1686). doi:10.1098/rstb.2015.0083
  10. Bukowski, H., & Samson, D. (2015). Can emotions influence level-1 visual perspective taking? Cognitive neuroscience, 1-10. doi:10.1080/17588928.2015.1043879
  11. Quadflieg, S., Michel, C., Bukowski, H., & Samson, D. (2014). A database of psycholinguistic and lexical properties for french adjectives referring to human and/or nonhuman attributes. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology/Revue canadienne de psychologie expérimentale, 68(1), 67-76. doi:10.1037/cep0000001
  12. Bukowski*, H., Dricot*, L., Hanseeuw, B., & Rossion, B. (2013). Cerebral lateralization of face-sensitive areas in left-handers: Only the FFA does not get it right. Cortex, 49(9), 2583–2589. doi:10.1016/j.cortex.2013.05.002
  Chapters:
  1. Bukowski, H. (2019). Self-Knowledge. In V. Zeigler-Hill & T. K. Shackelford (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences (pp. 1–5). Cham: Springer International Publishing. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-28099-8_2004-1
  2. Bukowski, H., & Lamm, C. (2018). Superior Temporal Sulcus. In V. Zeigler-Hill & T. K. Shackelford (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences (pp. 1–5). Cham: Springer International Publishing. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-28099-8_463-1
  3. Bukowski, H., & Lamm, C. (2017). Temporoparietal Junction. In V. Zeigler-Hill & T. K. Shackelford (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences (pp. 1–5). Cham: Springer International Publishing. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-28099-8_863-1
  Preprints:
  • Bukowski, H., Boch, M., Lamm, C., & Silani, G. (2020). Is Self-Other distinction malleable? Egocentric and altercentric biases in empathy are modulated by priming attachment style and similarity mindsets. PsyArXiv. doi:10.31234/osf.io/bpyvz

PEDAGOGICAL EXPERIENCE
Full courses and supervisions:
  • 01/2018 – 12/2019: Faculty of Psychology, Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium. 
    • Co-supervision: 4 master theses (2 via collaborations with Pr. Mandy Rossignol from Univ. of Mons).
  • 10/2014 – 08/2018: Faculty of Psychology, University of Vienna, Austria.
    • 5 master theses and 24 internships.
    • Courses taught:
      • Theoretical and empirical academic work (mind and brain). Master. 10 ECTS.
      • Research approaches in cognitive psychology and in neuroscience. Master. 5 ECTS.
      • Special topics of cognitive psychology and neuroscience. Master. 5 ECTS.
      • Literature Seminar. Bachelor. 5 ECTS.
      • Seminar on biological foundations of experience and behavior. Bachelor. 6 ECTS.
  • 10/2010 – 10/2014: Faculty of Psychology, Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium. 
    • Co-supervision: 5 master theses.
  • 04/2007: Certified trainer for child activity leader, Guides catholiques de Belgique.
  Invited lecturer:
  • For Séminaire de psychopathologie cognitive, Université de Mons, (2020, 2019, 2018, 2017).
  • For Special topics of cognitive psychology and neuroscience, University of Vienna, (2015, 2016).
  • For Research approaches in cognitive psychology and in neuroscience, University of Vienna, (2015, 2016)..
  • For Cognitive psychology, Gent University, 2019.
  • For Mind and Brain Research Seminar, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, 2021.
 

COMPETENCES
Technical skills:
  • Experimental designs in social and cognitive psychology (E-prime, Matlab, Presentation).
  • fMRI data collection and analysis (SPM and BrainVoyager)
  • rTMS neuromodulation (MagVenture, Magstim) with Brainsight neuronavigation
  • Meta-analytic (SDM, GingerALE) and multivariate statistical methods.
  • Design and programming of web-based psychometric tools (jsPsych, Testable, Flash).
  • Experienced programmer in Matlab, JavaScript, Php, MySQL, html, VBA Excel, ActionScript3
 
Social / communication / pedagogical skills:
  • Easily establish good working relations (easy-going, open-minded, genuine interest in people)
  • Good communication skills obtained through numerous oral and written presentations in conferences (awarded twice for best poster presentation)
  • Good pedagogical skills attested by positive feedbacks (cf. henrykbukowski.com/teaching)
 
Languages:
  • French: native.
  • English: proficient.
  • Dutch: basic.
  • Polish: basic.

PRESENTATIONS
Oral presentations:
  1. Bukowski, H. From shared to distinct affects via rTMS/fMRI combined: Neuroenhancement of self-other distinction in empathy depends on dispositional empathic understanding. Workshop on Affective Shared Perception. 2020. Valparaiso, Chile – online format.
  2. Bukowski, H. When differences matter: rTMS/fMRI reveals how differences in dispositional empathy translate to distinct neural underpinnings of self-other distinction in empathy.. Neuromatch 3.0. conference. 2020. Online format.
  3. Bukowski, H. Introduction to Self-Other (mis)understanding). From Self-Knowledge to Knowing Others workshop. 2019. Université catholique de Louvain (UCLouvain), Belgium (Be).
  4. Bukowski, H. Is there an autist – neurotypical – schizophrenic continuum in social cognition? A critical review of theories and evidence. Belgian Association of Psychological Sciences annual meeting. 2019. Université de Liège, Be.
  5. Bukowski, H. Influences of Emotions, Sleep Deprivation, and Individual Differences in Visual Perspective Taking Support a Multidimensional Account of Mindreading. International Congress of Psychological Science. 2019. Paris, France.
  6. Bukowski, H. An Introduction to Self-Other knowledge. Workshop “From Self-knowledge to Knowing Others”. 2018. UCLouvain, Brussels, Belgium.
  7. Bukowski, H. Self-Other distinction in empathy: an rTMS/fMRI study. Third EDG Workshop “Understanding Others”. 2018. University of Dresden, Germany.
  8. Bukowski, H. Self-Other distinction in empathy is modulated by cTBS on right supramarginal gyrus and dispositional cognitive empathy: an rTMS/fMRI study. ESCAN bi-annual conference meeting 2018. University of Leiden, Netherlands.
  9. Bukowski, H. Introducing a multi-dimensional assessment of visual perspective-taking and empathic performance. 2017. Unité de Neurosciences Cognitives et de Psychopathologie Cognitive, Université de Liège, Belgium.
  10. Bukowski, H. Introducing a multi-dimensional assessment of visual perspective-taking and empathic performance. 2016. Department of Experimental Psychology, Ghent University, Belgium.
  11. Bukowski, H. Coordinates-based meta-analyses of neuroimaging studies: A critical overview. NeuroCog, 2016. KU Leuven, Belgium.
  12. Bukowski, H. A multidimensional approach to perspective taking. Cognition and System neuroscience (COSY) talks, 2015. Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium.
  13. Bukowski, H. Measuring and decomposing human empathy. Aegina Summer School: The social self, 2015, Aegina, Greece.
  14. Bukowski, H. A multidimensional approach to perspective taking. Belgian Association of Psychological Sciences annual meeting, 2015, Vrijd Universiteit Brussel, Belgium.
  15. Bukowski, H. A multidimensional approach to perspective taking. Workshop Perspective Taking, Intentionality, and Joint Action, 2015. Central European University, Hungary.
  16. Bukowski, H. & Samson, D. What boosts attention orienting in response to other people’s gaze direction? Belgian Association of Psychological Sciences annual meeting, 2014, Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium.
  17. Bukowski, H. & Samson, D. Can you resist the influence of others? Altercentrism, egocentrism, and personality traits. Belgian Association of Psychological Sciences annual meeting 2013, Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium.
  18. Bukowski, H. & Samson, D. Taking someone's perspective under the emotion. Institute of Neuroscience PhD student day, 2012, Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium.
  19. Bukowski, H. & Samson, D. Effects of one's emotional state on perspective-taking and prosocial behavior. Annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, 2012, New Orleans, USA.
  20. Bukowski, H. & Samson, D. Emotion induction: empirical and theoretical lessons [French]. Psychological Sciences Research Institute Day, 2012, Université catholique de Louvain, Belgique.
  21. Bukowski, H. & Samson, D. Effects of one’s own emotional state on perspective-taking, and prosocial behaviour. Belgian Association of Psychological Sciences annual meeting, 2012, Université de Liège, Belgium.
  22. Bukowski, H. Have we, men and women, the same moral sense? [French] Talk presented twice during the "Jeunes chercheurs dans la cité" festival, 2011, Brussels and Louvain-La-Neuve, Belgium.
  23. Bukowski, H. & Samson, D. Effects of one’s own emotional state on perspective-taking and prosocial behavior. Donders Discussion, 2011, University of Nijmegen, Netherlands.
  24. Bukowski, H. & Samson, D. Effects of one’s own emotional state on perspective-taking and social behavior. Psychological Sciences Research Institute Day, 2011, Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium.
  25. Bukowski, H. D. Coordinate-based meta-Analysis in PET and fMRI. Psychological Sciences Research Institute, 2010, Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium.
Poster presentations:
  1. Bukowski, H., & Samson, D. Measuring and decomposing human empathy. Colloquium « Actualités sur la personnalité normale et pathologique », UMons, Belgique.
  2. Bukowski, H., Silani, G., & Lamm, C. How Attachment and Similarity Mindsets Affect Empathy when Self-Other Distinction Is Required? International Convention of Psychological Science, 2017, Vienna, Austria.
  3. Bukowski, H., Silani, G., Riva, F., Tomova, L., & Lamm, C. Measuring Self-Other Sharing and Self-Other Distinction as Distinct Dimensions of Empathy. 3rd international conference of the European Society for Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience (ESCAN), 2016, Porto, Portugal
  4. Bukowski, H., & Samson, D. Measuring and decomposing human empathy. Social Cognition Workshop, 2015, University of Bangor, UK.
  5. Bukowski, H. Measuring and decomposing human empathy. Aegina Summer School: The social self, 2015, Aegina, Greece.
  6. Bukowski, H. & Samson, D. What boosts attention orienting in response to other people’s gaze direction? IAS Social Cognition Workshop, 2014, University of Surrey, UK.
  7. Bukowski, H. & Samson, D. Effects of one's emotional state on perspective-taking and prosocial behavior. Annual meeting of the Society for Social Neuroscience, 2012, New Orleans, USA.
  8. Bukowski, H. & Samson, D. Effects of one's emotional state on perspective-taking and prosocial behavior. Social Cognition, Engagement and the Second-Person-Perspective Interdisciplinary Conference meeting, 2012, University of Cologne, Germany.
  9. Bukowski, H. & Samson, D. Effects of one’s own emotional state on perspective-taking, and prosocial behaviour. Social Brain symposium, 2011, Brussels, Belgium.
  10. Bukowski, H., Dricot, L., Hanseeuw, B., Schiltz, C., & Rossion, B. Cerebral lateralization of the face-cortical network in left-handers: only the FFA does not get it right.  Institute of Neuroscience Inauguration, 2010, Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium.
  11. Bukowski, H., Dricot, L., Hanseeuw, B., Schiltz, C., & Rossion, B. Cerebral lateralization of the face-cortical network in left-handers: only the FFA does not get it right.  Vision Sciences Society, 2010, Naples, FL, USA.
 
WORKSHOPS & SUMMERSCHOOLS
  • Workshop 'Social Cognition: From Evolution to Applications’, 2015, University of Bangor, UK.
  • Aegina Summer school 2014 ‘The social self’, 2015, Aegina, Greece. Organisers: Dr. Tsakiris, Dr. Deroy.
  • Workshop ‘Perspective Taking, Intentionality, and Joint Action’. 2015. Central European University, Hungary.
  • Workshop 'Social Cognition: Origins, Mechanisms and Disorders', 2014, IAS, University of Surrey, UK.
  • Social Cognitive Neuroscience International Summer School, 2013, SISSA, Trieste, Italy.
  • Summer Institute in Cognitive Neuroscience, 2011, UC Davis & UC Santa Barbara, USA.
  • 2nd European Workshop on Social Neuroscience, 2010, Ghent, Belgium.
  • 5th MBIC fMRI school, 2010, University of Maastricht, Netherlands. Organizer: Dr. Goebel.
 
PERSONS of REFERENCE
  • Pr. Claus Lamm (claus.lamm@univie.ac.at), current supervisor, professor and principal investigator at the Social, Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience unit, University of Vienna.
  • Pr. Giorgia Silani (giorgia.silani@univie.ac.at), collaborator and principal investigator of the SILANI lab, University of Vienna.
  • Pr. Dana Samson (dana.samson@uclouvain.be), PhD supervisor, professor and principal investigator at the Psychological Sciences Research Institute, Université catholique de Louvain.
  • Pr. Marcel Brass (marcel.brass@ugent.be), professor and principal investigator at the Department of Experimental Psychology, Ghent University, Belgium
  • Dr. Bruno Rossion (bruno.rossion@uclouvain.be), supervisor of internship, principal investigator at the Psychological Sciences Research Institute, Université catholique de Louvain.
 

 

Henryk Bukowski: Researcher studying how we (fail to) understand others and ourselves through the lens of social, cognitive, and affective neuroscience and psychology.