Veronika Zilker

Veronika Zilker is a visiting researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development (MPIB Berlin), specializing in computational cognitive science and decision-making processes. She holds a Dr. rer. nat. (2020, summa cum laude) and M.Sc. in Mind and Brain (2016) from Freie Universität Berlin, along with a B.Sc. in Psychology (2013) from the same institution.

• Education:
  • Dr. rer. nat. (2020, summa cum laude), Freie Universität Berlin
  • M.Sc. Mind and Brain (2016), Berlin School of Mind and Brain, Humboldt University Berlin
  • B.Sc. Psychology (2013), Freie Universität Berlin
  • Research stay (2014), Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging, University College London
• Research Focus:
  • Computational modeling of cognition
  • Attention processes in decision-making
  • Decisions under risk and uncertainty
  • Stochastic decision process modeling
• Honors:
  • Heinz Heckhausen Prize (2022) - German Psychological Society (DGPs)
  • Gender Research Prize (2021) - Free University of Berlin

She contributes to the Adaptive Rationality research team and employs interdisciplinary methods spanning experimental psychology, statistics, and computational modeling.