Franziska Emmerling (née Dambacher) is currently a Niels Stensen postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Experimental Psychology and the Oxford Center for the Study of Intergroup Conflict at the University of Oxford, UK. After finishing her studies in psychology and theology at the University of Trier, Germany, and Sophia University Tokyo, Japan, she worked at the German Institut for Psychology of Religion investigating, among other things, New Religious Movements. In 2014, she completed her PhD in Cognitive Neuroscience at Maastricht University, where she explored the neural correlates of inhibitory processing and aggression. Ever since her work in the field of social neuroscience focuses on the biological, neural, and social factors underlying the development, establishment, and behavioral consequences of conflict.