The department is engaged in research across a broad range of disciplines and provides a high quality research environment for staff and students. The department has a strong tradition of interdisciplinary research and participates in both national and international collaborative projects. 

Research laboratories

• Chemosensory laboratory – Contact: Bente Gunnveig Berg
• Clinical neuroscience laboratory – Contact: Alexander Olsen
• FLEKSILAB - Kontakt: Odin Hjemdal
• Developmental neuroscience laboratory (Nulab) – Contact: Audrey van der Meer
• The Human Factors Laboratory (HFL) – Contact: kontakt@ips.ntnu.no

Research groups

• BASE research group - Contact: Odin Hjemdal
• Cancer in childhood- neurocognitive and psychosocial late-effects (CCNP) - Kontakt: Trude Reinfjell
• Citizens, environment and safety (CES) – Contact: Christian Klöckner
• Communication, contemplation and wellbeing (CCW) – Contact: Ingunn Hagen
• Eating and weight disorders research group (EWeR) – Contact: Siri Weider
• Greening organisations – Contact: Fay Giæver
• Healthy workplaces - Contact: Siw Tone Innstrand / Marit Christensen
• Learning and skill development – Contact: Hermundur Sigmundsson
• Mind, brain and education – Contact: Hermundur Sigmundsson
• MORE: Motivation – rationality – effort - Kontakt : Gerit Pfuhl
• Occupation, psychocardiology and sleep (OPS) – Contact: Eva Langvik
• Personality, conscience and wellbeing - Contact: Timo Lajunen
• Regulation and Health (RegHe) - Contact: Charlotte Fiskum
• Research group on transportation – Contact:  Trond Nordfjærn
• Resilience centre – Contact: Odin Hjemdal
• SCaLa – Speech, cognition and language research group – Contact: Dawn Behne
• Sexual Conflicts research Group – Contact: Leif Edward Ottesen Kennair
• The Center on Parenting and Emotion Regulation (CPER) – Contact: Jolene Van der Kaap-Deeder
• The Early brain development group (EBD) – Contact: Lars Morten Rimol
• The Psychophysiology Lab – Contact: Magne Arve Flaten
• The Trondheim Early Secure Study (TESS) – Contact: Lars Wichstrøm
• The Vascular Diseases Research Group (VaD) – Contact: Ramune Grambaite

Research projects

• Nature in your face - Contact: Erica Löfström
• The human dimension of plastic pollution in South Africa - Kontakt: Isabel Richter