Sofiia Rappe

Sofiia Rappe is an Honorary Fellow at Durham University's Department of Philosophy and an Affiliate Faculty Member in the philosophy of psychiatry and neuroscience at the American Canadian School of Medicine. She previously held the Ruhr University Alliance Futures Fellowship (NYU/Rutgers) and a postdoctoral position at Ruhr University Bochum, where she was a Neuromind Fellow (2022-23). Her research integrates philosophy, linguistics, psychology, computer science, and neuroscience to explore cognitive mechanisms underlying consciousness and predictive processing.

Education: PhD in Neurophilosophy (LMU Munich, 2022, supervised by Prof. Ophelia Deroy); M.Sc. in Mind, Language, and Embodied Cognition (University of Edinburgh, supervised by Prof. Andy Clark); B.Sc. in Linguistics and Mathematics (University of Toronto).

Key research areas include nested simulations, episodic memory in causal reasoning, and dialogism's role in mental health. Notable talks include presentations at CogSci 2024 (Rotterdam) and ESPP 2024 (Grenoble). She co-develops an interdisciplinary research platform for cognitive sciences.

Awards include the DFG Research Group FOR 2812 membership and leadership in experimental philosophy projects. Former lab roles at the Consciousness & Wisdom Studies Lab (Toronto) and Technologies for Aging Gracefully Lab (Toronto).