Team Members
Krzysztof Dolega
Postdoc
MSc Edinburgh
PhD Bochum 2020
www.krysdolega.xyz
Krys has been a grooup member from the start in 2014. His dissertation topic was Content and Consciousness in Predictive Processing. During his PhD project he spent research visits at Tufts to work with Daniel Dennett who was his second thesis supervisor.
Keith Harris
Postdoc
BA Philosophy & English (State University of New York, Oswego), MA Philosophy (University of Missouri, Columbia), PhD Philosophy (University of Missouri, Columbia), with a dissertation on social metaphysics, group minds, and group epistemic states.
Researching extended and group cognition, social epistemology, and applied epistemology.
François Kammerer
Humboldt-Postdoc
PhD Philosophy, Sorbonne
MA Philosophy, Lyon
BA Philosophy, Lyon
www.francoiskammerer.com
François was awarded a Postdoctoral fellowship by the Humboldt-Foundation to pursue his work on a book on illusionism about consciousness.
Firuze Mullaoglu
Student Assistant
BA Psychology, Ankara Yildirim Beyazit University
Firuze is pursuing an MA in Cognitive Science. Her BA thesis discussed the effects of psychological distance on stereotyping, middle way orientation and cognitive flexibility.
Nina Poth
Postdoc
MSc Cognitive Science, Bochum
PhD Edinburgh
ninapoth.wordpress.com
Nina has just joined the group in spring 2020, armed with a PhD from the University of Edinburgh. She specializes in Bayesian theories of cognition and she will investigate mental phenomena from this angle.
Bartosz Radomski
PhD Student
MSc Cognitive Science, Bochum
BA Philosophy & Economics, Edinburgh
In his MA thesis, Bartosz investigated the theoretical status of the Free Energy Principle and continues his interest in foundational theories of cognition, dis-cussing the relations bet-ween the free energy approach and autopoietic enactivism which are both connected via their inter-pretations of the notion of adaptivity.
Matt Sims
Humboldt-Postdoc
PhD Philosophy, Edinburgh
MSc Philosophy, Edinburgh
BA Philosophy, London
Matt is interested in the biological origins of cognition and in how different forms of cognition are expressed in intelligent purposeful behaviour across a wide range of biological systems - from bacteria to humans, using the conceptual apparatus of ecological psychology, active inference, cybernetic control theory, and self-organising complex systems theory.
Caroline Stankozi
Student Assistant
BA Philosophy & Sociology, Bielefeld
Caroline is pursuing an MA in Philosophy with a special inter-est in philosophy of mind and cognition. In particular, she has already written a BA thesis on whether minimal cognition requires a nervous system and is leading a reading group on cognition in minimal biological systems.
Tobias Starzak
Postdoc
Science Manager
PhD Philosophy, Bochum
MA Philosophy, Cologne
After having worked on Animal Minds and Rationality, Tobias has focused on understanding actions and reasons, and is also interested in cognition in biological and artificial systems generally.