Martin Rolfs, Principal investigator (CV)
Martin is full professor of Experimental Psychology: Active Perception and Cognition at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. He graduated from Potsdam University (Germany) and worked as a postdoc in Paris, New York, and Marseille before he started his lab in Berlin in October 2012, first as an Emmy Noether Fellow, then as a Heisenberg-Professor.

Personal website: martinrolfs.de
eMail: martin.rolfs@hu-berlin.de
Twitter: @martinrolfs
Tel: +49-30-2093-6775
Fax: +49-30-2093-6771

Fedoua Rothländer, Administrative management
Fedoua is responsible for the group’s administrative work and oversees all office and secretarial management, ensuring smooth daily operations.

eMail: fedoua.rothlaender@hu-berlin.de

Nina Hanning, Postdoctoral researcher
Nina is fascinated by the perceptual consequences of eye movements and the predictive mechanisms that the visual system employs to compensate for or utilize them. After earning her PhD from LMU Munich (GSN), she continued her research as a postdoctoral fellow at New York University (NYU), before joining the lab in 2023. Nina aims to bring highly controlled, but traditionally rigid experimental designs into flexible, more natural contexts.

Research interests: Saccadic eye movements; Overt and covert attention; Pre- and postsaccadic perception; Oculomotor freezing; Saccadic and visual adaptation

eMail: nina.hanning@hu-berlin.de

Julie Ouerfelli-Ethier, Postdoctoral researcher
Julie investigates visual attention and eye movements in dynamic scenes. She studied vision sciences and cognitive neuroscience at the University of Montreal and University of Lyon, respectively. She joined the lab in summer 2024 for a postdoc shortly after receiving her PhD.

Research interests: Dynamic scene viewing; Saccade planning; Presaccadic attention; Remapping; Cognitive inhibition

eMail: julie.ouerfelli-ethier@hu-berlin.de

Jan-Nikolas Klanke, PhD student
Jan investigates the role of volition and awareness in sense of agency, a topic that he has picked up during his master’s thesis. Interested in human visual perception and how it can be measured, Jan joined the lab in June 2017 as a student assistant. He completed his Master’s at the Berlin School of Mind and brain in 2019.

Research interests: Eye movements; Microsaccades; Intention; Sensorimotor awareness; Visual perception

eMail: jan.klanke@hu-berlin.de

Olga Shurygina, PhD student
Olga is interested in the role of visual grouping in the allocation of attention. She wrote her master’s thesis in our lab and also worked as a student research assistant. She continues her research as a PhD, as part of the group at the research cluster Science of Intelligence. Her project is concerned with Object-based attention in dynamic visual scenes.

eMail: shurygol@hu-berlin.de

Wiebke Nörenberg, PhD Student
Wiebke joined the lab in 2021 to explore the role of retinal consequences of saccades in detection of causality. She is interested in sensorimotor integration and how the laws guiding sensory processing shape perception and awareness. She studied Biology and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience in Leipzig, Turku and Tübingen and investigated motion detection in the visual system of zebrafish for her master’s thesis.

Research interests: Eye movements; Sensorimotor processing; Motion and time perception; Metacognition

eMail: wiebke.noerenberg@hu-berlin.de

Melis İnce, PhD Student
Melis PhD work investigates object continuity in experimental and natural scenes as part of the ERC project. She studied Psychology in Cyprus and Cognitive Neuroscience in Trento. After completing her Master’s thesis on decoding attentional planning on obstacle avoidance using MEG, she worked at the Italian Institute of Technology in Genova on time to contact estimation on auditory perception.

Research interests: Eye movements; Intrasaccadic/Transsaccadic motion perception; EEG

eMail: melis.ince@hu-berlin.de

Inchara Manjunatha, PhD Student
Inchara is interested in visual cognition and aims to investigate the impact of actions on perception and working memory. She is also interested in investigating feature-based attention in the active observer. Inchara joined the lab in 2024 for her doctorate after completing a master’s in cognitive science from the Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar.

Research interests: Ensemble perception; Feature-based attention; Working memory; Eye movements

eMail: inchara.manjunatha@hu-berlin.de

Oliver Steiner, PhD student
Oliver joined the lab 2022 to write his master’s thesis on the effect of reward on vigor and pre-saccadic attention at Humboldt Universität zu Berlin. In his PhD, he wants to continue to build on this project by investigating if there is a link in patients with Parkinson’s disease in cooperation with the Charité. Oliver likes philosophy, sleep science and couscous.

Research interests: Eye-movements in clinical populations; Free-viewing; Pre-saccadic attention

eMail: oliver.steiner@hu-berlin.de

Antonia Keller, Student assistant
After attending Martin’s lecture on active perception and cognition, Antonia gained an interest in cognitive science and joined the lab as a student research assistant during her bachelor’s degree in 2021. She wrote her thesis on the influence of hand movements on saccadic inhibition and is currently enrolled in the clinical psychology master’s program at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.

eMail: antonia.keller.1@hu-berlin.de

Ronja Buchin, Student assistant
Ronja joined the lab in June 2024 and is currently pursuing her Bachelor’s degree in Psychology at HU. Always having had an interest in physics, she developed a keen fascination with perceptual psychology after attending Martin’s lecture. Since then, she has been dedicated to working with eye-tracking and plans to write her Bachelor’s thesis in the lab.

eMail: ronja.buchin.1@hu-berlin.de

Leoni Kleige, Student assistant
Since the beginning of her bachelor’s studies, Leoni has been eager to explore the practical aspects of vision research. Inspired by Martin’s lecture on active perception and cognition, she joined the lab as a student research assistant. She is particularly interested in eye tracking as a method for investigating perceptual and cognitive processes and values the opportunity to contribute to experimental work. Leoni also plans to develop her bachelor’s thesis in the lab.

eMail: leoni.chiara.amelie.kleige@student.hu-berlin.de

Paul Schmitthäuser, Master’s student & intern
Paul joined the lab as an intern in 2024 to investigate the relationship between oculomotor freezing and presaccadic attention during free-viewing tasks. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Psychology from the University of Potsdam and is currently pursuing a master’s degree in Cognitive Neuroscience at Freie Universität Berlin. His research interests focus on the interaction between attention and eye movements and their role in facilitating visual perception. Paul is also passionate about statistical modeling and programming.

eMail: paul.schmitthaeuser@gmail.com