The Center comprises research groups at the University of Geneva and also associate members from other Universities. They come from a wide range of disciplines, enabling a unique multidisciplinary approach to the study of emotions. Neuroscientists, philosophers, psychologists, computer scientists, economists, and scholars from literature, the arts, and humanities work together with the common objective of understanding emotions and their roles in cognition and behavior.

The Center also develop methodologies and tools to study the neural, psychological, bodily and social underpinnings of emotion. Likewise, it carries out applied research in collaboration with public and private partners.