Bigna Lenggenhager

07/2023-

06/2027

03/2021-02/2023

08/2023-07/2025

03/2021-02/2023

Sinergia Grant, Swiss National Science Foundation, Role: Principle Investigator “Virtual Reality and Psychoplastogens: A Synergistic Approach for The Treatment of Chronic Pain”. Amount: 1'371'506 CHF

CASCB New comer grant, University of Konstanz, Role: Principle Investigator. ISMiR: The influence of Interoceptive Signalling on self-other perception, sensorimotor and physiological synchrony, and behaviour in social interactions within Mixed Reality spaces. Amount: 579.932 EUR

Research grant, Bial Foundation, Role: Principle Investigator “Altered States of Viscereality: Augmenting Breathwork with Bio-Responsive Virtual Reality”. Amount 57’000 EUR

Research grant Foundation. Role: Co-Applicant.  “Living in a Dream: Body and self experience during waking and dream states in depersonalisation” Amount: 48’000 EUR

02/2021- 01/2022

Bertarelli Foundation Catalyst Grant, EPFL, Role: Principle Investigator “Predicting pain–a telemedicine tool to track phenomenal & neural dynamics of chronic pain” Amount: 299’870 CHF

12/2020-

06/2021

MedTech UZH Entrepreneur Fellowship to Jasmine Ho, Role: Consultant and host

SomaRem - Embodied Virtual Medicine for Chronic Pain Amount. 150’000 CHF

06/2020-

05/2024

AAPG 2020, French National Research Agency, Role: Co-Applicant

“Vestiself: The vestibular system: a hidden sense for a core sense of self” Amount: 454’727 EUR

02/2020-

11/2020

SPARK grant, Swiss National Science Foundation, Role: Principle Investigator

“My mind in your body: swapping bodies with another and its effects on physiological synchronization, self-other distinction, and empathy” Amount: 106’046CHF

02/2019-01/2010

ZNZ PhD grant for Helena Aicher, Role: Principle Investigator

“Going Beyond the Self: Counteracting Depressive States with Disembodiment”

Amount: 55’000 CHF

01/2019-

12/2019

Innovativer Lehrkredit der Universität Zürich, Role: Principle Investigator

«Science Goes Public: Studierende moderieren Gespräche Zwischen Wissenschaft und Praxis»

Amount: 4'500 CHF

07/2018- 06/2019

Seed funding, University of Zurich and University of Geneva, Role: Principle Investigator

“The basis of smell in digital social interaction: Exploring the effect of odor on virtual embodiment”.

Amount 7’500 CHF

09/2017-08/2021

SNSF Professorship, Swiss National Science Foundation, Role: Principle Investigator                                                                                       “The plasticity of the bodily self in a lifespan approach”.

Amount: 1’500’000 CHF

01/2016 - 01/2019

Network grant, German Research Foundation, Role: Co-applicant (PI: Philipp Beckerle)

„Users’ Body Experience and Human-Machine Interfaces in (Assistive) Robotics”.     

Amount: 48’150 EUR

11/2015- 10/2018

SNSF Project Research Grant, Role: Consultant (PI: Andreas Kunz)

“Integrating Neuropsychological Aspects for Redirection in Virtual Environments”

Amount: 356’691 CHF

07/2014 - 09/2018

Research grant, Italian Ministry of Health, Role: Co-applicant (PI: Ilaria Bufalari)

Combined behavioral and non-invasive brain stimulation interventions for treating body image distortions in Anorexia Nervosa. Amount: 342’000 EUR

08/2013 - 01/2017

Ambizione, Swiss National Science Foundation, Role: Principle Investigator

Binding body and self by vestibular and multisensory stimulation. Amount: 632’630CHF

05/2012 - 04/2014

Research grant, IRP, Role: Co-PI with Mariella Pazzaglia and Giorgio Scivoletto

Embodiment and re-embodiment of Spinal Cord Injury Patients. Amount: 150’000 CHF

10/2010 ‐ 09/2011

Fellowship for prospective researchers, SNSF, Role: Principle Investigator

Bodily self-consciousness in patients. Amount: 68’000 CHF

01/2007 ‐ 01/2009

Network grant, VolkswagenStiftung, Role: Co-applicant (PIs: Manos Tsakiris, RUHL)

"European Platform for Life Sciences, Mind Sciences, and the Humanities": The body project (Amount: 107’000 EUR) and the dream group (Amount 89’200 EUR)

01/2007 ‐ 01/2009

Network grant, VolkswagenStiftung, Role: Co-applicant (PI: Valdas Noreika, Cambridge University)

"European Platform for Life Sciences, Mind Sciences, and the Humanities": The body project (Amount: 107’000 EUR) and the dream group (Amount 89’200 EUR)