Yaniv Abir

Yaniv Abir is a Research Fellow at the Max Planck UCL Centre for Computational Psychiatry and Ageing Research, affiliated with University College London. He holds a PhD in Psychology (2024) from Columbia University, USA.

Research Interests: Yaniv specializes in modeling human decision-making, learning, and exploration behaviors. His work bridges simplified experimental tasks with real-world cognitive processes, focusing on uncertainty navigation and motivational influences on information-seeking.

Publications: His recent research explores computational mechanisms underlying human exploration under uncertainty (2024) and motivational drivers of information-seeking during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic (2022). These studies span psychology, neuroscience, and computational modeling.

Labs/Teams: Currently affiliated with the Max Planck UCL Centre, where he contributes to interdisciplinary research in computational psychiatry and aging.