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Anelis Kaiser
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| Alma mater | University of Basel, Switzerland |
| Known for | Co-founder of The NeuroGenderings Network |
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| Fields | Gender studies, social psychology and social neuroscience |
| Institutions | University of Freiburg, Germany University of Bern, Switzerland |
| Thesis | Geschlecht in der Hirnforschung am Beispiel von fMRI-Sprachexperimenten [Gender in brain research using the example of fMRI language experiments] (2008) |
Anelis Kaiser is a professor who studies how our brains and society are connected to ideas about gender. She works at two universities: the University of Freiburg in Germany and the University of Bern in Switzerland.
Professor Kaiser is an expert in gender studies, social psychology, and social neuroscience. These fields help us understand how people think and act, and how society's views on gender can play a role. She is also known for co-founding a group of scientists called The NeuroGenderings Network.
Education and Career
Anelis Kaiser earned her PhD, which is the highest degree you can get at a university, from the University of Basel in Switzerland in 2008. Her final research project was about gender and the brain.
Today, she teaches students and does research. At the University of Freiburg, she is a professor of gender studies. She also teaches social psychology and social neuroscience at the University of Bern.
Main Areas of Research
Professor Kaiser's work looks at how common ideas about gender can affect scientific research. For example, she studies how some scientists might look for simple, fixed differences between male and female brains.
She questions whether these ideas are always correct. Her research explores how society's expectations can shape how we think about ourselves and others. This important work led her to help create The NeuroGenderings Network.
The NeuroGenderings Network
Along with another scientist named Isabelle Dussauge, Anelis Kaiser started The NeuroGenderings Network. This is a group for researchers who are interested in studying the brain and gender in a careful and thoughtful way.
The network encourages scientists to think critically about their work. They want to make sure that research on gender and the brain is fair and not based on old-fashioned stereotypes. Kaiser and Dussauge also worked together as editors for a special issue of the science journal Neuroethics that focused on this topic.
See also
- Cognitive neuroscience
- Gender essentialism
- Neuroscience of sex differences
- List of cognitive neuroscientists
- List of developmental psychologists
