Employment Education Grants Other

Employment   

since 01.2011

Department of Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Bielefeld. PI on DFG grant "ELAPS: Embodied Latency Adaptation and the Perception of Simultaneity".

09.2008 - 12.2010

Multisensory Perception and Action Group (NGW Ernst), Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen. Postdoctoral Researcher.

05.2008 - 08.2008

Ikegami Lab, University of Tokyo, Japan. JSPS Short Term Postdoctoral Fellow.

Education   

10.2004 - 04.2008

Centre for Computational Neuroscience and Robotics (CCNR), University of Sussex, UK. D.Phil. in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence.

09.2006 - 01.2007

Groupe Suppléance Perceptive (GSP), Technical University of Compiegne (UTC), France. ERASMUS research stay.

10.2003 - 09.2004

University of Sussex, UK. MSc in Evolutionary and Adaptive Systems (with distinction).

10.2000 - 09.2003

University of Osnabrück, Germany. BSc in Cognitive Science (with distinction).

02.2003 - 09.2003

Intelligent Dynamical Systems Group (InDy) at the Fraunhofer Institute for Autonomous Intelligent Systems (AIS) in St. Augustin, Germany. Student researcher (internship + BSc project).

07.2002 - 01.2003

University of Costa Rica, San José, Costa Rica. Semester abroad.

09.1999 - 07.2000

Leibniz Kolleg, Tübingen, Germany. General Studies ("Studium Generale").

Awards and grants   

01.2011 - 12.2013

DFG Grant ELAPS: Embodied Latency Adaptation and the Perception of Simultaneity (Eigene Stelle)

05.2008 - 08.2008

JSPS Short Term Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Ikegami Lab, University of Tokyo, Japan.

10.2004 - 09.2007

Teaching Assistantship for doctorate students by the School of Science and Technology, University of Sussex.

10.2003 - 09.2004

EPSRC scholarship for the MSc Evolutionary and Adaptive Systems at the University of Sussex.

01.2003

MLP-Award for Excellence in Studies, Univ. of Osnabrück.

09.2002 - 12.2003

Semester Scholarship by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) for a semester abroad in Costa Rica.

Other   

Languages

German (native), English (native level), Spanish, French (fluent), Japanese (beginner).

Skills
  • Experimental: human psychophysics, human motor behaviour, virtual reality, basic human EEG
  • Programming languages: Java, Matlab, C, C++, Prolog, HTML, CSS, PHP, javascript, Latex
  • Other formal: Data analysis/statistics, data modelling, neural networks, physics simulations, computer graphics (Open GL), genetic algorithms, artificial intelligence, computational linguistics
Supervision
  • Andrew Wold. MSc project, MPI for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen 2009.
  • Nick Del Grosso. Student research project, MPI for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen 2010/2011.
Editing
  • Adaptive Behavior special issue on Agency in Natural and Artificial Systems with Takashi Ikegami.
Organisational Involvement
  • Organising committee of the 1., 2. and 3. CNRS summer school Enaction and Cognitive Science (various locations in France).
  • Co-organisation of the Workshop on Agency in Natural and Artificial Systems, 11.-12.07.2008 in Kyoto, Japan.
  • Co-organiser of The Cyborg Experiment at the Cheltenham Festival of Science 2005.