Knut Drewing

Prof. Dr. Knut Drewing is a faculty member at Justus Liebig University Giessen (Faculty of Psychology and Sports Science, Department of General Psychology). His research focuses on haptic perception, multisensory integration, and sensorimotor coordination during active touch. Key areas include predictive mechanisms in exploration, material perception (softness/texture), and affective aspects of touch.

He earned a Diploma from the University of Kiel (1998), a PhD from Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich (2001, awarded the Otto Hahn Medal), and completed postdoctoral research at Max Planck Institutes in Munich and Tübingen.

Drewing leads Project A5 investigating predictive mechanisms in active touch, coordinating visuo-haptic exploration and motor termination strategies. His recent publications demonstrate computational modeling of haptic saliency, cross-modal number perception, and age-related changes in tactile affect. Collaborative work emphasizes Bayesian perception and neural correlates of touch.

Awards include the Otto Hahn Medal for outstanding doctoral research.

He advises PhD students (Michaela Jeschke, Didem Katircilar) and collaborates internationally on haptics research. His laboratory studies active exploration strategies using psychophysics and sensorimotor paradigms.