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Daniel NettleVisiting Professor Daniel Nettle was a Visiting Professor at our department in the Fall Term of 2021-22 Academic Year. |
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Roland AdorjaniResearch Intern Roland Adorjani was a Research Intern in the Social Mind Center in Spring 2012. |
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Alan LeslieVisiting 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. |
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Claes von HofstenVisiting 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. |
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Attila KrajcsiVisiting Professor Attila Krajcsi was a Visiting Professor at our department in the Winter term of 2019-20 Academic Year between January and April, 2020. Currently he is working as an Associate Professor at ELTE- Eotvos Lorand University, Hungary. His main research interest is numerical cognition and methodological issues. Currently he is mainly interested in the bases of number understanding and the development of symbolic number processing. He is also the lead developer of the automatic analysis software, CogStat (www.cogstat.org) which makes data analysis more convenient, more precise and more consistent. His personal site is here > Personal Page |
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Dr Nausicaa PouscoulousVisiting 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. |
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Shahrzad AfroozehResearch 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. |
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Clark BarrettVisiting 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. |
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Stephen ButterfillVisiting 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. |
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Marian ChenPostdoctoral Fellow Marian Chen was a postdoctoral fellow at the Cognitive Development Center between November, 2009 and May, 2012 |
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John DeweyPostdoctoral 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. |
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Mikolaj HernikPostdoctoral 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. |
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Stefano Di PiazzaResearch 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. |
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Silviya DonevaResearch Intern Silviya Doneva was a Research Intern in the Social Mind Center in Fall 2014. |
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Bálint ForgácsPostdoctoral 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. |
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Chris FrithVisiting 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. |
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Krisztian GábrisLab Manager Krisztian Gabris was a Lab Manager in the Social Mind Lab between 2011 and 2013. |
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Francesca GiardiniPostdoctoral 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. |
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Veronika HerendyLab Manager Veronika Herendy was a Lab Manager in the Social Mind Lab between 2012 and 2015. |
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Pierre JacobVisiting 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. |
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Dora KampisAlumna 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. |
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Martin FreundliebAlumnus 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. |
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Pavel VoinovAlumnus Pavel was a PhD student at the department from 2011 and has successfully defended his PhD thesis under the supervision of Natalie Sebanz and Gunther Knoblich in May, 2017. Currently he investigates social cognition and coordination abilities in chimpanzees at the Primate Research Institute, Kyoto University |
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Gábor BródyAlumnus 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. |
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Denis TatoneAlumnus 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. |
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Thomas wolfAlumnus 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. |
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Eszter SzabóAlumna 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. |
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Nazli AltinokAlumna 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. |
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Rubeena ShamsudheenAlumna 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. |
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Sára JellinekAlumna 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. |
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Helena MitonAlumna 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. |
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József AratóAlumnus 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. |
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Ádám BonczAlumnus 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). |
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Johannes MahrAlumnus 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. |
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Luke McEllinAlumnus 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. |
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Laura SchmitzAlumna 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. |
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April KarlinskyResearch Intern April Karlinsky was a Research Intern at the Social Mind Center in Fall 2013. |
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Peter KellerVisiting 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. |
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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) |
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Szilvia LinnertResearch Assistant Szilvia Linnert was a research assistant at the Cognitive Development Center between September 2012 and August 2013. She is currently at Lancaster University. |
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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. |
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Eugenio ParisePostdoctoral Fellow Eugenio Parise was a postdoctoral fellow of the Cognitive Development Center between 2009 and 2013. He is currently at Lancaster Universy. |
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Lou SafraResearch Intern Lou Safra was a Research Intern in Spring 2013 at the Social Mind Center. She is now at LNC. |
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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. |
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Judit Varga
Research Intern Judit Varga was a Research Intern at the Social Mind Center in Fall 2013. |
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Jun Yin
Postdoctoral Fellow Jun Yin was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Cognitivie Development Center between 2013 and 2015. |
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Constantin RothkopfVisiting 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. |
Jesse Snedeker
Visiting Professor
Jesse was a Visiting Professor at our deparment in the Fall term of 2022-23 Academic Year between September and December, 2022.
Jesse is working with language and congition in broad, as member of the Department of Psychology of Harvard Univesity.
Mathieu Charbonneau
Postdoctoral reseracher
Mathieu Charbonneau completed his Ph.D. in philosophy in 2013 at the Université de Montréal. He was working at the department as a post-doctoral researcher at the Social Mind Center in the OSCAR group (cognition & culture) till 2021. His research concerns the use of novel technologies as cognitive augmentations, both at the level of individuals and collectives of individuals. He is also working on philosophical issues relating to technological change and the interface between technological and biological evolution.
Jennifer Ang
Alumna
Jennifer was a PhD student at the department from 2016 and has successfully defended her PhD thesis under the supervison of Natalie Sebanz and Gunther Knoblich in 2021. She is investigating the planning for a Joint Task Distribution.
Gábor Lengyel
Alumnus
Gábor was a PhD student at the department from 2014 and has successfully defended his PhD thesis under the supervison of József Fiser and Máté Lengyel in 2022. He is currently working at the Ralf Haefner's lab, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, University of Rochester.
Otávio Mattos
Alumnus
Otávio was a PhD student at the department from 2015 and has successfully defended his PhD thesis under the supervison of Gergely Csibra and Ágnes Melinda Kovács in 2022. He continues his research as a Postdoc in Norway.
Paula Fischer
Alumna
Paula was a PhD student at the department from 2015 and has successfully defended her PhD thesis under the supervison of Ernő Téglás and Ágnes Melinda Kovács in 2022.
Francesca Bonalumi
Alumna
Francesca was a PhD student at the department from 2015 and has successfully defended her PhD thesis under the supervison of Christophe Heintz and Gergely Csibra in 2022. She continues her work with Christophe Heintz at CEU Department of Cognitve Science in Vienna.
Simily Sabu
Alumna
Simily was a PhD student at the department from 2015 and has successfully defended her PhD thesis under the supervison of Gunther Knoblich and Natalie Sebanz in 2022.
Oana Stanciu
Alumna
Oana was a PhD student at the department from 2014 and has successfully defended her PhD thesis under the supervison of József Fiser and Máté Lengyel in 2022. She continues her research as a Postdoc with Azzurra Ruggeri at the CEU Department of Cognitve Science in Vienna with topics of computational cognitive science.
Georgina Török
Alumna
Georgina was a PhD student at the department from 2015 and has successfully defended her PhD thesis under the supervison of Natalie Sebanz and Gergely Csibra in 2021. She is investigating joint action and social cognition. Her dissertation title is `Co-efficiency - An empirical investigation of the principle of rational joint action`.
James Strachan
Postdoctortal researcher
James completed his BSc in Psychology in 2012, then a MSc in Cognitive Neuroscience in 2013, and finally his PhD in Psychology in 2016 on the topic of incidental social learning from gaze cues, all at the University of York. His broader research interests lie in social cognition and how we adapt to and learn about others in our environment. He has been working as a postdoctoral researcher in the SOMBY lab.
Research Area: Joint Action
John Stins
Visiting Professor
John Stins was a Visiting Professor at our department in the Fall term of 2020-21 Academic Year between September and December, 2020. Currently he is working at Department of Human Movement Sciences, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
His professional website is https://research.vu.nl/en/persons/john-stins
He studies how cognition, emotion, personality, and psychopathology impact the organization of movement, with an emphasis on regulating balance.
Elizaveta Vorobyova
Alumna
Liza was a PhD student at the department from 2014. She has successfully defended her PhD thesis under the supervison of György Gergely and Ernő Téglás in 2021. Her main research area is Infant Social Cognition. Currently she is a postdpoc at CDC, continues working with Professor György Gergely.
Mia Karabegovic
Alumna
Mia was a PhD student at the department from 2014. She has successfully defended her PhD thesis under the supervison of Christophe Heintz and Dan Sperber in 2021. Her main research area is Behavioural Economics. Currently she is a postdoc in Paris at the Institute Jean Nicod.