Konstantina Kilteni (PHD, group leader)

Short Bio. Konstantina studied Electrical and Computer Engineering at the National Technical University of Athens (Greece), she did her PhD in Clinical Psychology and Psychobiology at the University of Barcelona (Spain) and her postdoc at the Department of Neuroscience at Karolinska Institute (Sweden). In January 2020 she was promoted to assistant professor funded by a career development grant from the Karolinska Institutet. In May 2020 she set up her own independent group at the Department of Neuroscience as principal investigator.

Research. Why can't you tickle yourself? Konstantina's research combines computational motor control theory, force perception behavioural experiments, and state-of-the-art neuroimaging methods to address how the human brain distinguishes between self-generated and externally-generated touch.

Contact. konstantina.kilteni@donders.ru.nl, konstantina.kilteni@ki.se

Prizes/Grants/Awards

  • ERC Starting Grant (2023-2027)

  • Åke Wiberg Foundation, Medical Research Group Leader Grant (2020-2021)

  • Karolinska Institutet, Starting Grant in Medicine and Health (2020-2021)

  • StratNeuro, Startup Grant in Neuroscience (2020-2022)

  • Swedish Research Council, Starting Grant in Medicine and Health (2020-2024)

  • Karolinska Institutet, Assistant professor position (2020-2026)

  • Neural Control of Movement Scholarship (2020)

  • FENS Travel Grant (2019) 

  • Karolinska Institute Travel Grant (2018, 2019)

  • Karolinska Institute Research Grant, (2018-2020, 2016-2018)

  • Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual fellowship (2017-2019)

  • Wenner Gren Foundation (2016-2017)

Sample Publications

Konstantina Kilteni, Patrick Engeler and Henrik Ehrsson. "Efference copy is necessary for the attenuation of self-generated touch." iScience (2020). 

Konstantina Kilteni and Henrik Ehrsson. "Functional connectivity between the cerebellum and somatosensory areas implements the attenuation of self-generated touch." Journal of Neuroscience (2020). 

Konstantina Kilteni, Christian Houborg and Henrik Ehrsson. "Rapid learning and unlearning of predicted sensory delays in self-touch." eLife (2019). 

Konstantina Kilteni, Benjamin Jan Andersson, Christian Houborg, and H. Henrik Ehrsson. "Motor imagery involves predicting the sensory consequences of the imagined movement." Nature communications 9 (2018).

Konstantina Kilteni, and H. Henrik Ehrsson. "Body ownership determines the attenuation of self-generated tactile sensations." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2017).

 Konstantina Kilteni, and H. Henrik Ehrsson. "Sensorimotor predictions and tool use: Hand-held tools attenuate self-touch." Cognition 165 (2017).