Alumni and Visitors
Roland Adorjani
Research Intern
Roland Adorjani was a Research Intern in the Social Mind Center in Spring 2012.
Alan Leslie
Visiting Professor
Alan Leslie was a Visiting Professor at our department in the Winter Term of 2015-16 Academic Year between January and April, 2016. Currently he is at Rutgers School of Art and Sciences.
Claes von Hofsten
Visiting Professor
Claes von Hofsten was a Visiting Professor at our department in the Fall term of 2015-16 Academic Year between September and December, 2015. Currently he is working in Uppsala University.
Dr Nausicaa Pouscoulous
Visiting Professor
Nausicaa was Visiting Professor at our department in the Winter term of of 2016-17 Academic Year between January and April, 2017. Currently she is working in UCL.
Shahrzad Afroozeh
Research Intern
Shahrzad Afroozeh was a research Iintern in Fall 2014 at the at the Social Mind Center. Curently she is in the University of Vienna.
Clark Barrett
Visiting Professor
Clark Barrett was a visiting professor at the Department of Cognitive Science between September, 2013 and December, 2013. He is currenyly working in UCLA.
Stephen Butterfill
Visiting Professor
Stephen Butterfill was a visiting professor at the Department of Cognitive Science between September, 2012 and December, 2012. He is currently working in Warwick.
Marian Chen
Postdoctoral Fellow
Marian Chen was a postdoctoral fellow at the Cognitive Development Center between November, 2009 and May, 2012
John Dewey
Postdoctoral Fellow
John Dewey joined the SOMBY group in Budapest as a post-doc in January 2013 till the edn of 2014. Currently he is in a visiting assistnt professor at Finlandia University, USA.
Mikolaj Hernik
Postdoctoral Fellow
Mikolaj was a postdoctoral researcher at the Cognitive Development Center between 2011 and 2019. He has been studying early social cognition in infancy. Currently he is an Associate Professor at the UiT The Arctic University of Norway.
Stefano Di Piazza
Research Fellow
Stefano Di Piazza was a research fellow at CEU between January 2013 and 2014 while being a PhD student in Philisophy at the Universty of Siena.
Silviya Doneva
Research Intern
Silviya Doneva was a Research Intern in the Social Mind Center in Fall 2014.
Bálint Forgács
Postdoctoral Fellow
Balint Forgacs was a PostDoc at the Cognitive Development Center from September 2012 till November 2014. Currently he is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Université Paris Descartes, Laboratoire Psychologie de la Perception.
Chris Frith
Visiting Professor
Chris Frith was a visiting professor at the Department of Cognitive Science between January and April, 2014 Winter term. He is currently working in UCL.
Krisztian Gábris
Lab Manager
Krisztian Gabris was a Lab Manager in the Social Mind Lab between 2011 and 2013.
Francesca Giardini
Postdoctoral Fellow
Francesca Giardini was a postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Cognitive Science between September 2010 and September 2012. Currently she is at Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies, Rome.
Veronika Herendy
Lab Manager
Veronika Herendy was a Lab Manager in the Social Mind Lab between 2012 and 2015.
Pierre Jacob
Visiting Professor
Pierre Jacob was a visiting professor at the Department of Cognitive Science in 2013 Winter term. He is currently a member and former director of Institut Jean Nicod in Paris.
Dora Kampis
Alumna
Dora is the very first PhD alumna at the Department of Cognitive Science. She has successfully defended her PhD thesis under the supervison of Agnes Kovacs and Gergely Csibra in January, 2017. She continues her research as a Postdoc at the University of Coppenhagen.
Martin Freundlieb
Alumnus
Martin was a PhD student at the department from 2012 and has successfully defended his PhD thesis under the supervison of Natalie Sebanz and Agnes Kovacs in October, 2017. He is investigating the spontaneous visuospatial perspective-taking in humans.
Pavel Voinov
Alumnus
Pavel was a PhD student at the department from 2011 and has successfully defended his PhD thesis under the supervison of Natalie Sebanz and Gunther Knoblich in May, 2017. Currently he is a postdoctoral researcher at the department.
Gábor Bródy
Alumnus
Gábor was a PhD student at the department from 2014 and has successfully defended his PhD thesis under the supervison of Gergely Csibra and Ágnes Melinda Kovács in 2020. Currently he is at Harvard. His main reserach area is infant social cognition.
Denis Tatone
Alumnus
Denis was a PhD student at the department from 2011 and has successfully defended his PhD thesis under the supervison of Gergely Csibra and Dan Sperber in September, 2017. Currently he is a postdoctoral resercher at the department. His research interests focuses on the development of distributional fairness and how children's socio-moral expectations are influenced by the application of different relational schemata. Currently, he is working on infants' understanding of giving events and how action interpretation drives object preference. He is also interested in the developmental and evolutionary basis of coalitionary thinking and social signaling.
Thomas wolf
Alumnus
Thomas was a PhD student at the department from 2014 and has successfully defended his PhD thesis under the supervison of Gunther Knoblich adn Natalie Sebanz in 2019. He is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the CEU Social Mind Center.
Eszter Szabó
Alumna
Eszter was a PhD student at the department from 2013 and has successfully defended her PhD thesis under the supervison of Ágnes Melinda Kovács and Gergely Csibra in 2019. She is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the CEU Cognitive Development Center.
Nazli Altinok
Alumna
Nazlı was a PhD student at the department from 2013. She has successfully defended her thesis titled "This is how we do it: Interpreting sub-efficient means actions of group members in infancy and childhood" in June 2020, under the supervision of György Gergely, Ildikó Király, and Mikołaj Hernik. She works on social learning, group cognition, and action understanding with infants and children.
Rubeena Shamsudheen
Alumna
Rubeena was a PhD student at the department from 2011. She has successfully defended her PhD thesis under the supervison of Gergely Csibra and György Gergely in 2020. She has been working on the various topics of infant social congition.
Sára Jellinek
Alumna
Sára was a PhD student at the department from 2012. She has successfully defended her PhD thesis under the supervison of József Fiser and Máté Lengyel. Her main research area is statistical learning.
helena Miton
Alumna
Helena was a PhD student at the department from 2015. She has successfully defended her PhD thesis under the supervison of Christophe Heintz and Dan Sperber in 2020. Her main research area is `Cognition and Culture`. Currently she is a Complexity Postdoctoral Fellow (Omidyar Fellow, ASU-SFI Center Fellow) at the Sante Fe Institute, US.
József Arató
Alumnus
József was a PhD student at the department from 2012 and has successfully defended his PhD thesis under the supervison of József Fiser and Gergely Csibra in 2019. He is currently a postdoctoral reseracher at the University of Vienna.
Ádám boncz
Alumnus
Ádám was a PhD student at the department from 2012 and has successfully defended his PhD thesis under the supervison of Gunther Knoblich and Thalia Wheatley in 2019. Currently he is a researcher at the MTA (Hungarian Academy of Science).
Johannes Mahr
Alumnus
Johannes was a PhD student at the department from 2013 and has successfully defended his PhD thesis under the supervison of Gergely Csibra and Dan Sperber in 2019. Johannes is currently a Mind, Brain, and Behavior Postdoctoral Fellow at the Departments of Psychology and Philosophy at Harvard University. He primarily works in affiliation with the Schacter Memory Lab where he investigates the role of episodic memory in human communication and the structure and function of episodic simulation.
Luke McEllin
Alumnus
Luke was a PhD student at the department from 2013 and has successfully defended his PhD thesis under the supervison of Gunther Knoblich and Natalie Sebanz in 2018. Currently he is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Warwick.
Laura Schmitz
Alumna
Laura was a PhD student at the department from 2013 and has successfully defended her PhD thesis under the supervison of Natalie Sebanz and Gunther Knoblich in February, 2018. She is investigating how non-verbal communication can support coordination.
April Karlinsky
Research Intern
April Karlinsky was a Research Intern at the Social Mind Center in Fall 2013.
Peter Keller
Visiting Professor
Peter Keller was a visiting professor at the Department of Cognitve Science in 2016/17 Fall term. He returned to the University of Western Sydney and deals with Human Interaction Through Music.
Ivana Konvalinka
Postdoctoral Fellow
Ivana Konvalinka was a PostDoc at the Social Mind Center between 2013 and 2014. Currently she is a Researcher at the Section for Cognitive Systems at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU Compute)
Szilvia Linnert
Research Assistant
Szilvia Linnert was a research assistant at the Cognitive Development Center between September 2012 and August 2013. She is currently at Lancaster University.
Laurence T. Maloney
Visiting Professor
Laurence T. Maloney was a visiting professor at the Department of Cognitive Science between September, 2014 and December, 2014. He is currently working in NYU.
Eugenio Parise
Postdoctoral Fellow
Eugenio Parise was a postdoctoral fellow of the Cognitive Development Center between 2009 and 2013. He is currently at Lancaster Universy.
Lou Safra
Research Intern
Lou Safra was a Research Intern in Spring 2013 at the Social Mind Center. She is now at LNC.
Dana Samson
Visiting Professor
Dana Samson was a visiting professor at the Department of Cognitive Science between January and April, 2015. She is currently working in UCL.
Judit Varga
Research Intern
Judit Varga was a Research Intern at the Social Mind Center in Fall 2013.
Jun Yin
Postdoctoral Fellow
Jun Yin was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Cognitivie Development Center between 2013 and 2015.
Constantin Rothkopf
Visiting Professor
Constantin Rothkopf was a Visiting Professor at our department in the Fall term of 2017-18 Academic Year between September and December, 2017. Currently he is working at Technische Universität Darmstadt. His main research areas are the neural coding of visual processes and computational models of cognition.