Péter Simor, PhD. (Lab Director)

Peter Simor
Education

2012 – 2009 Budapest University of Technology and Economics, doctoral (PhD) school of Psychology
2007 – 2001 Faculty of Education and Psychology, Eötvös Lóránd University

Research interests

  • Parasomnias
  • Chronotype
  • Sleep, memory and emotional information processing
  • Quantitive sleep EEG analyses
  • The neurophysiology of REM sleep
Skills

Statistics (R, SPSS), Basic programming (MatLab, E – Prime), EEG analyses, Sleep scoring, analyses of sleep microstructure

Awards

Erdős Pál Young Researcher Grant, “National Excellence Program” (2015)

Jedlik Ányos pre-doctoral research grant (2014)

Julesz Béla Young Research Award of the Budapest University of Technology and Economics (2012)

Emotional Regulation in Dreaming, Nightmares and Bad dreams in Borderline Personality Disorder – Student grant of the International Association for the Study of Dreams (2009)

Workplaces

2017- Eötvös Lóránd University, Faculty of Education and Psychology, Department of Affective Psychology, assistant professor

2013 -2017
Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Department of Cognitive Sciences,
from 2014, assistant professor

2013 – Nyírő Gyula Hospital, National Institute of Psychiatry and Addictions,
position: researcher

2007 – 2012 – Nyírő Gyula Hospital, National Institute of Psychiatry and Addictions,
position: psychologist

Scholarships

2015, August – December
Eötvös Hungarian State Scholarship: visiting researcher at the Laboratory of Neuropsychology and Functional Neuroimaging, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium.

2013, November
ESRS travel grant: Laboratory of Neuropsychology and Functional Neuroimaging, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium.

2011, September – December
Erasmus scholarship: Laboratory of Functional Neuroscience,
University of Pablo de Olávide, Seville, Spain

2011, July
Department of Neurology, Oasi Institute for Research on Mental Retardation and Brain Aging (IRCCS), Troina, Italy, Professional Training

2011, summer school
LA school for Education, Cognitive and Neural Sciences, San Pedro de Atacama, Chile

Languages

Hungarian – native

English – advanced

Spanish – advanced

Memberships

ESRS – European Sleep Research Society

Teaching experience

BA, MSc and PhD courses on the following topics:

  • Introduction to psychology
  • Sleep and dream research
  • Evolutionary Psychology
  • Affective Neuroscience: Emotion and Cognition
  • Sleep EEG

The neuroscience of sleep and dreaming (Msc, PhD)