Current Position


2019 -
Post-Doc Fellow, Laboratory of perceptual systems, École Normale Superiéure (PSL University) & Institute of Vision (Sorbonne University), Paris.
Research Fellowship on biomimetic sensory augmentation


Experience


2017 - 2018
Post-Doc, School of Philosophy, Psychology & Language Sciences, University of Edinburgh.
ERC Advanced Project "XSPECT" - Expecting Ourselves: Embodied Prediction and the Construction of Conscious Experience.

2014 - 2016
Post-Doc, Laboratory of Psychology of Perception, Université Paris Descartes, Paris.
ERC Advanced Project "FEEL" - A new approach to understanding consciousness: how feel arises in humans and (possibly) robots.


Education


2006 - 2012
PhD (Dr.rer.nat.) in Cognitive Science, University of Osnabrück, Germany.
Doctoral research in the feelSpace project on perception and consciousness, focusing on
an embodied cognition approache to sensory augmentation.
Graduated summa cum laude

2002 - 2006
M.Sc. in Cognitive Science, University of Osnabrück, Germany.
Graduated with distinction

2001 - 2002
Visiting Student, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK
Departments of Psychology and Philosophy

1999 - 2002
B.Sc. in Cognitive Science, University of Osnabrück, Germany.
Graduated with distinction