Prof. Alexandre Schaefer

Sunway Univeristy

Alexandre Schaefer is currently a professor of psychology at Sunway University, and he previously worked for Monash University, Durham University, the University of Leeds, Yale University, Washington University in St Louis, and the University of Louvain. He will be a plenary speaker at MAPSA 2023.

Poverty and Mental Health

Speaker Profile

Alexandre Schaefer is currently a professor of psychology at Sunway University, and he previously worked for Monash University, Durham University, the University of Leeds, Yale University, Washington University in St Louis, and the University of Louvain. So far, his research has been funded by the World Health Organization (WHO), UK’s research councils (BBSRC and ESRC), the Belgian national fund for scientific research (FNRS), the Nuffield foundation, the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and the Malaysian ministry of education. He has worked for more than 20 years in the field of human emotions and their interactions with cognitive processes using methods from both psychology and neuroscience. The promise of this field of research is to contribute towards a better understanding of mental health disorders linked to a dysfunction of emotions (e.g. depression and anxiety disorders). In recent years, He has also developed a research programme exploring how socioeconomic factors affect mental health and the process of ageing, with a particular focus on populations from developing countries.