The election results are in! Lab director Martin Rolfs was elected to the DFG's review board, in which he will now play a critical role in evaluating funding applications in the domain of General, Cognitive and Mathematical Psychology. The DFG is Germany's main research funding organization, so this is meaningful to have a representative within … Continue reading Martin is elected to the DFG review board
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Joan is awarded the AvH Postdoctoral Fellowship
Congratulations to Joan, who just received a Humboldt Research Fellowship to carry out her work on "perceptual vigor" with our lab - stay tuned for new experiments and discoveries on this phenomenon. The fellowship supports researchers from all over the world. For more information, see here: https://www.humboldt-foundation.de/en/apply/sponsorship-programmes/humboldt-research-fellowship.
Student RA position available (SHK)
We are looking for a motivated student who would like to become part of the lab as a student research assistant (Studentische Hilfskraft, SHK), starting in August / September 2023 (duration: 12 months). The SHK will be associated with the Excellence Cluster Science of Intelligence and will partly work at Technical University of Berlin (Charlottenburg; … Continue reading Student RA position available (SHK)
Martin back from Sabbatical at Dartmouth College
Martin spent a sabbatical at Dartmouth College, from August 29th to December 31st, 2022. As a Fellow of the Harris Program, he enjoyed numerous scientific interactions with Peter Tse, Viola Stoermer, Patrick Cavanagh, Caroline Robertson, Tor Wager, Matt van der Meer, and their groups at the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences. During his time … Continue reading Martin back from Sabbatical at Dartmouth College
Several student RA positions available (SHK)
We are looking for several motivated students who would like to become part of the lab as student research assistants (Studentische Hilfskraft, SHK), starting in April / May 2022 (duration: 2 years). We have a total of four positions available. One of these positions will be working entirely at the lab's main facilities at the … Continue reading Several student RA positions available (SHK)
Two dissertation awards for Richard Schweitzer
Richard Schweitzer defended his PhD thesis "Perceptual and Motor Consequences of Intra-saccadic Perception" in the lab on November 3, 2020 (see post here). We now received news from that his work has been awarded two dissertation prizes. The first award is the Humboldt-Prize 2021, an annual prize honoring excellent scientific work young scientists at Humboldt-Universität … Continue reading Two dissertation awards for Richard Schweitzer
Back from the lab’s 3rd retreat
We just got back from a fantastic lab retreat, which took place in a beautiful parsonage in northern Germany (Mecklenburg Vorpommern). We spent five days developing creative visual experiments and new projects, teaching and learning from each other, cooking delicious food, and we had a bike trip along the beautiful Baltic Sea! The amazing Miriam … Continue reading Back from the lab’s 3rd retreat
Open postdoc position in SCIoI project
We have an opening for a postdoc to work in a project called "Probing properties of recursive, hierarchical information processing in visual systems", which is an exciting collaboration with the Robotics and Biology Laboratory (PI: Oliver Brock) and part of the larger research cluster Science of Intelligence (short: SCIoI). The official announcement at the website … Continue reading Open postdoc position in SCIoI project
Melis & Wiebke join Berlin School of Mind & Brain
Melis and Wiebke had interviews at the Berlin School of Mind & Brain last week. As we have learned today, they have both been accepted to the program and will start there in the fall. Congratulations! As Mind & Brain PhD students, they follow in the footsteps of many others in the lab (Richard, Lisa, … Continue reading Melis & Wiebke join Berlin School of Mind & Brain
Welcome to Melis & five new student RAs
The second PhD student in the ERC project “How visual actions shape active vision (VIS-Á-VIS)” arrived. Melis Ince just started to work on her dissertation project on object continuity. Welcome! We also welcome five new student research assistants who join the lab after a long hiring process. Welcome to the team, Amelie von Werder, Annick Langlois, … Continue reading Welcome to Melis & five new student RAs
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