Maleen Thiele

Maleen Thiele is a Senior Scientist and Group Leader at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, leading the Minerva Fast Track Group 'Facets of Early Social Learning'. She specializes in developmental and comparative psychology, focusing on social learning mechanisms in infants and great apes through eye-tracking methodologies.

• PhD in Psychology (2021), Leipzig University
• M.Sc. and B.Sc. in Psychology, Leipzig University

Her research explores how infants use social interactions to encode object information, the role of joint attention in learning, and comparative studies across great apes. She pioneers adapting eye-tracking technology for remote and non-human applications.

Key publications include studies on gaze cues, social attention effects on memory, and methodological validations. She received the Minerva Fast Track Fellowship (2023), Outstanding Dissertation Award (ICIS, 2022), and DAAD funding (2018).

• Minerva Fast Track Fellowship (2023)
• Outstanding Dissertation Award (ICIS, 2022)
• DAAD Scholarship (2018)