Miruna Cotet

Miruna Cotet is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Complexity Science Hub in Vienna, Austria, where she joined in January 2025. She contributes to the Collective Adaptation research group led by Mirta Galesic, focusing on collective problem-solving in dynamic environments through interdisciplinary methodologies.

Her academic foundation includes a Ph.D. in Decision Psychology from The Ohio State University. During her doctoral work, she integrated economic and psychological frameworks to analyze human behavior in contexts ranging from experimental games to online marketplaces like eBay, utilizing process data such as eye-tracking and response times.

Her research centers on how groups adapt behavior by processing social information and personal preferences to shape collective outcomes. She employs experimental designs and computational modeling to decode decision-making mechanisms, with applications for enhancing real-world group coordination in interconnected systems. Key methodologies include behavioral experiments and negotiation data analysis, as demonstrated in her eBay seller-response study.

Miruna actively participates in the CollAdapt project under Collective Minds, which investigates collective adaptation through team-based problem-solving approaches and aims to translate findings into practical group-coordination strategies.