Yousri Marzouki

Yousri Marzouki is the Director of the Honors Program at Qatar University and a faculty member in the Psychology Program of the Department of Social Sciences. He received his PhD in cognitive psychology in 2007 from the University of Provence in France. His experimental approach to studying the role of spatial attention in identifying written words and letters earned him the prestigious European postdoctoral research grant from the Fondation Fyssen, which enabled him to pursue his postdoctoral work at Tufts University in Boston. In 2009, he returned to Aix-Marseille University as an Associate Professor specializing in cognitive psychology and statistical modeling applied to behavioral sciences. He is also affiliated with the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) as an associated researcher. Dr. Marzouki’s research focuses on the relationship between attention, emotion, and consciousness. He developed the groundbreaking “Virtual Collective Consciousness” (VCC) model in 2012, offering an integrative framework to explain large-scale online behaviors. His approach bridges cognitive neuroscience with cyber-psychology, examining emergent properties in neural activities and virtual interactions. In addition to his research, Dr. Marzouki is a permanent member of the Global Teacher Prize Academy (nominated in 2017) and has supervised numerous professional training sessions in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT).