جستجوی استاد راهنمای دانشگاهی

Katja Fiehlerمشاهده پروفایل

استاد

• Perception-Action Coupling
• Sensorimotor Integration
• Tactile Suppression
• +۵ مورد دیگر

Prof. Dr. Katja Fiehler is a leading academic at the Justus Liebig University Giessen , where she holds the Chair of Experimental Psychology: Perception & Action since 2020. Her research bridges psychophysics , motion tracking , and neuroimaging (EEG/fMRI) to explore how sensory information shapes spatial perception and goal-directed movements. Education: Habilitation (2011), Venia legendi in Psychology, Philipps University Marburg PhD (2005), Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig Diploma in Psychology (2001), Technical University Dresden Her work focuses on sensorimotor integration , tactile suppression , and predictive coding during tasks like grasping, pointing, and balance control. She investigates how visual , tactile , and proprioceptive signals interact with attention and working memory to refine movement execution. Recent studies leverage virtual reality and eye-tracking to simulate complex environments. Project leadership includes DFG IRTG-1901 (The Brain in Action) and membership in the SFB/TRR-135 (Cardinal mechanisms of perception). Collaborative efforts span neuroimaging , VR tool development , and interdisciplinary research on aging and neuropsychiatric cohorts.

Peter Henziمشاهده پروفایل

استاد

• Primate socio-ecology
• Animal behaviour
• Primate sociality and cognition
• +۵ مورد دیگر

Peter Henzi is Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Lethbridge (Alberta, Canada) with an adjunct research chair at the University of South Africa and affiliation at the University of the Witwatersrand Medical School. His research centers on behavioural ecology of southern African primates and human social cognition development. His core research areas include primate socio-ecology (specializing in baboons and vervet monkeys), animal behaviour, and human social cognition. Key investigations examine predator-prey dynamics, infection impacts on primate societies, spatial decision-making, and child social development. This work integrates field observations with evolutionary theory to analyze how ecological pressures shape cognitive and social structures. Analysis of Henzi's 2019-2021 publications reveals consistent interdisciplinary focus on primate behavioural adaptations and cognitive evolution. His studies demonstrate methodological integration of field ecology, immunology, and cognitive science, particularly examining how physiological states (e.g., fever) modulate social interactions and how embodied action informs social brain development. No scientific awards were explicitly attributed to Peter Henzi in the source materials. Henzi co-directs the Barrett-Henzi Lab with ongoing NSERC (Canada) and NRF (South Africa) funding. The lab operates as an international collaborative network spanning University of Lethbridge, University of South Africa, University of the Witwatersrand, and partners in Calgary/Aberdeen. It actively recruits students and field researchers for primate behaviour projects in southern Africa, emphasizing collaborative ventures in socio-ecological research.

• Medical Robotics
• Rehabilitation Robotics
• Human-Robot Interaction
• +۴ مورد دیگر

Dr. Nicolás García-Aracil is an Associate Professor at Miguel Hernández University of Elche, Spain, affiliated with the Department of Systems Engineering and Automation. He serves as Deputy Director of the Institute of Bioengineering and Director of the Chair of Advanced Technologies for Rehabilitation. PhD in Robotics (Summa Cum Laude, National Research Prize, 2004) M.Sc. in Control Engineering (1996) M.Sc. in Design, Robotics and Industrial Automation (1997) B.Sc. in Electronics Engineering (1992) His research focuses on medical robotics , rehabilitation robotics , and human-robot interaction , with applications in stroke recovery , prostate cancer visualization , and assistive technologies . Recent publications emphasize dynamic adaptation , neuro-fuzzy systems , and multimodal interfaces for therapeutic optimization. Best Thesis in Robotics, National Research Prize (Spanish Federation of Automatic Control, 2004) Summa Cum Laude PhD Thesis (2004) 1st Accesit for PhD Thesis (2004) Active in European Union Horizon 2020 projects like AIDE and FP7 initiatives (ECHORD, MAAT). Serves as Editorial Board member for BioSystems & Biomechanics and has guest-edited multiple JCR journal special issues.

• Robot Vision
• Robot Learning
• Computer Vision
• +۴ مورد دیگر

Joni-Kristian Kämäräinen serves as Professor of Signal Processing within the Computing Sciences department at Tampere University, where he leads research in the Vision Group. Previously, he held faculty positions at LUT University's School of Engineering Science for five years before joining Tampere University in 2012 (tenured 2017, promoted to full professor in 2020). His academic journey includes a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Surrey's Center of Vision, Speech and Signal Processing under Josef Kittler. His research centers on robot vision and robot learning , with significant contributions to computer vision and machine learning. Key focus areas include visual place recognition, RGB-D tracking, color constancy, and anthropometric measurements. His group maintains strong industry collaborations with Huawei, Nokia Technologies, and Business Finland-funded projects. His publication portfolio shows a clear trajectory toward real-world robotic applications, with recent work emphasizing visual place recognition under varying conditions (2022-2024), depth-aware video processing (2023-2024), and reinforcement learning for industrial manipulators (2023-2025). The 2023 textbook Koneoppimisen perusteet (Machine Learning Fundamentals) demonstrates his commitment to education. Expert Statement for Finnish Parliament (2022) on AI solutions Contributor to Finnish Roadmap: Robots and the Future of Welfare Services (2021) Featured in YLE Uutiset (2018), Aamulehti (2021), and multiple technical press outlets He has supervised 20 PhD students since 2007, including Vivienne Huiling Wang (2025), Samu Koskinen (2025), and Fatemeh Shokollahi Yancheshmeh (2024), with alumni placed at Aalto University, Ericsson AB, and Huawei. His group receives funding from the Academy of Finland, EU Horizon 2020, Business Finland, Huawei, and Nokia Technologies. The Vision Group operates from Tampere University's Hervanta Campus, maintaining close ties with industrial partners through applied research projects.

• Developmental Dyslexia
• Bilingualism
• Cognitive Science
• +۷ مورد دیگر

Dr Barbara Piotrowska is a Lecturer at the School of Applied Sciences , Edinburgh Napier University, with a focus on developmental dyslexia, bilingualism, and cognitive science. Her research explores visual-spatial-motor integration, sensorimotor theory, and early identification tools for dyslexia, often intersecting with artificial intelligence and health themes. Education: PhD in Developmental Dyslexia (2018), Edinburgh Napier University. Her work investigates how sensory, motor, and socio-economic factors influence learning disorders, particularly dyslexia, and extends into decision-making rationality in bilingual individuals. Recent outputs include public health studies on emergency healthcare access and pandemic impacts. Her research trends highlight interdisciplinary approaches combining educational psychology , visual cognition , and technology-driven screening tools , with a shift toward broader health and policy implications in 2024. As a supervisor, she guided Fiona Thomson (2021) in a study of teacher risk judgments for dyslexia identification. She collaborates with the Psychology Research Group and Centre for Mind and Creativity Research , contributing to projects on sensorimotor theory and digital health interventions.

• experimental psychology
• sports psychology

Aaron Horvath is an Assistant Professor in the Department of General Psychology and Methodology at the Faculty of Humanities, Károli Gáspár Reformed University. He completed his PhD in Psychology at Eötvös Loránd University in 2022 with a dissertation on "Psychological Aspects of Proprioceptive Accuracy," and holds an MA in Psychology from the same institution (2018). In 2024, he also obtained a sports psychology specialist qualification from ELTE/TF. His research focuses on experimental psychology and sports psychology, particularly investigating proprioception, interoception, and their relationship to motor performance and body awareness. He is an active member of the György Ádám psychophysiology research group and the Bodily sensations and emotions research group. Horvath's publication record shows consistent productivity from 2018-2025, with a particularly strong output in recent years. His work primarily examines how psychological factors influence sensory perception and motor control, with applications in sports performance and clinical settings. The research demonstrates methodological sophistication through multichannel investigations of proprioceptive processes. Tamás Roska Scientific Presentation Award (OTDT, 2021) Horvath supervises doctoral students, including Gabriella Szegleti who is researching "The role of cognitive mechanisms in changes in resilience potential in young people with ADHD." He also serves on doctoral defense committees, most recently for Sámuel Varga's dissertation at BME in 2024. Internationally, he participated in Erasmus+ guest teaching at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz in June 2024. He is actively involved in research groups focusing on psychophysiology and the relationship between bodily sensations and emotions, contributing to our understanding of how physical and psychological processes interact in human experience.

Alex Cayco Gajicمشاهده پروفایل

استادیار

• Cognitive Neuroscience
• Cerebellum
• Motor Control
• +۷ مورد دیگر

Alex Cayco Gajic is a Junior Professor and Principal Investigator in the Department of Cognitive Studies at École Normale Supérieure (ENS), part of PSL University in Paris. She leads a research team within the Group for Neural Theory (GNT), which is embedded in the Laboratoire de Neurosciences Cognitives et Computationelles. Her work sits at the intersection of machine learning, mathematical modeling, and systems neuroscience, with a particular focus on understanding how neural populations represent behavior and change over learning. Dr. Cayco Gajic received her Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics from the University of Washington in 2015, where she worked under Eric Shea-Brown, followed by a postdoctoral fellowship in Angus Silver's lab at University College London. She established her independent laboratory at ENS in 2019, integrating her mathematical training with experimental neuroscience to study cerebellar function and neural dynamics during learning. Her research interests span computational neuroscience, cerebellar function, neural coding, dimensionality reduction techniques, reinforcement learning, and dynamical systems. Dr. Cayco Gajic aims to identify fundamental principles of how task-relevant neural dynamics emerge over learning, particularly focusing on the cerebellum but also exploring its interactions with the motor cortex and basal ganglia during motor and cognitive learning. Her recent publications reveal a strong trend toward developing novel dimensionality reduction methods for analyzing large-scale neural recordings, with particular emphasis on understanding how neural representations evolve during learning. Her work bridges theoretical modeling with experimental neuroscience, often collaborating closely with experimental teams to validate computational approaches with real neural data, as evidenced by her development of slice tensor component analysis (sliceTCA) for identifying multiple classes of covariability in neural data. Dr. Cayco Gajic currently supervises several PhD students in her lab, including Helen Todd (working on cerebellar interneuron synchronization), Leonardo Agueci, Mattia Della Vecchia, and Hugo Ninou. Her team is actively working on understanding how interacting circuits in the brain control behavior, with particular focus on the cerebellum's role in both motor and cognitive functions. She maintains affiliations with multiple research centers including the ENS Quantitative Biology Centre and the Paris Artificial Intelligence Research Institute, reflecting the interdisciplinary nature of her work that spans neuroscience, mathematics, and artificial intelligence.

Pierre Klinteforsمشاهده پروفایل

پژوهشگر

• Cognitive Science
• Computational Neuroscience
• Robotics
• +۴ مورد دیگر

Pierre Klintefors is a Researcher at the Department of Philosophy, Lund University, affiliated with the Joint Faculties of Humanities and Theology. His work bridges theoretical neuroscience, cognitive science, and robotics. Room: LUX:B476 Visiting Address: Helgonavägen 3, Lund Email: pierre.klintefors@lucs.lu.se Research Focus: Pierre investigates computational aspects of the body schema —an agent’s internal representation of its body. He employs frameworks like predictive processing and active inference , which hypothesize that the brain minimizes sensory prediction errors via hierarchical Bayesian inference. His models are implemented on humanoid platforms to explore embodied robotics and theoretical neuroscience . Publications: His work spans robotics , Bayesian statistics in psychology, and pattern processing in social cognition. Current projects include his dissertation on Action-Oriented Body Perception (2023–2027), and participation in public robotics events like Robotveckan 2024 . Contact: Mobile: +46 70 942 84 58 | Postal Address: Box 192, 221 00 Lund | Internal Post Code: 30

Jan Drugowitschمشاهده پروفایل

دانشیار

• Computational Neuroscience
• Cognitive Neuroscience
• Neural Networks
• +۶ مورد دیگر

Jan Drugowitsch is an Associate Professor at Harvard Medical School's Department of Neurobiology, focusing on computational neuroscience and neural implementation of reasoning under uncertainty . His lab explores how the nervous system processes ambiguous information through decision-making and navigation studies. Harvard Medical School affiliation Member of academic networks in neurobiology and cognitive science Research interests include neural network dynamics , Bayesian inference , and cognitive modeling of uncertainty. His work combines machine learning , physics , and neuroscience to develop theories of neural information processing. Recent trends in his publications emphasize reinforcement learning , heterogeneous neural tuning , and navigation under uncertainty using closed-loop collaborations with experimentalists. Key sub-fields include hippocampal spatial tuning , distributional reinforcement learning , and neural population dynamics . His lab, located in the Boston Longwood Medical Area, maintains affiliations with both MIT and Harvard Cambridge campus researchers. The theoretical focus is complemented by NIH funding acknowledgments in his social media activity.

• Chronic Pain Management
• Clinical Psychology
• Occupational Health
• +۳ مورد دیگر

Professor Michael Nicholas is a Clinical Psychologist with over 40 years of experience in chronic pain research and management. He holds a conjoint Professor position at the Pain Management Research Institute within the Northern Clinical School, University of Sydney , and directs multidisciplinary pain management programs at the MJC Pain Management & Research Centre , Royal North Shore Hospital. He established the first Multidisciplinary Back Pain Program at Westmead Hospital (1988) and developed the globally used Pain Self-Efficacy Questionnaire (PSEQ) . With a PhD from the University of Otago (1988) and an MSc(Hons), he has held leadership roles at St Thomas's Hospital (London), University of NSW (1991), and since 1994 at University of Sydney. PhD, University of Otago MPsychol (Clin) MSc(Hons), University of Sydney His research focuses on psychosocial contributors to chronic pain , early intervention protocols, and workplace disability prevention. He co-developed the Örebro Musculoskeletal Pain Screening Questionnaire with Sweden's Steve Linton, influencing WHO's ICD-11 pain classification. His work on the WISE study (2013–2022) demonstrated cost-effective interventions for injured workers, adopted by NSW Health. Recent publications (2020–2024) emphasize telehealth pain care , cross-cultural pain assessment tools , and workplace pain management . His 15 most recent articles address low back pain interventions, predictive modeling, and economic analyses of multidisciplinary programs. IASP John D Loeser Lifetime Achievement Prize (2022) Honorary Doctorate, Örebro University (2015) Australia's Research Field Leader for Pain (2020–2023) NSW Agency for Clinical Innovation Pain Network Co-Chair (2016–2022) He has trained over 400 ADAPT Pain Management Programs since 1994 and leads the internationally recognized online Masters Degree in Pain Management at University of Sydney. His work extends to opioid deprescribing , rehabilitation psychology , and low-resource setting adaptations . As Associate Editor for PAIN , Journal of Occupational Rehabilitation , and Scandinavian Journal of Pain , he shapes global pain scholarship. His grants exceed $12 million, including $4 million in recent years for rural pain training and CALD community programs.

James Elderمشاهده پروفایل

استاد

• Computer Vision
• Human Vision
• Artificial Intelligence
• +۴ مورد دیگر

James Elder is a Professor at York University, holding a joint Lassonde School of Engineering/Faculty of Health Tier I Chair. He is affiliated with the Centre for Vision Research, the VISTA program, and the Centre for AI & Society. Electrical Engineering & Computer Science Psychology His research integrates computer vision and biological vision studies, focusing on developing algorithms through understanding human visual processing. Key areas include computer vision , 3D shape perception , and AI applications in urban mobility . He leads projects like AttentiveVision and Agile AI-Powered Robotics . Recent publications reveal critical differences between human and AI visual processing, including Monocular Depth Estimation and Shape Frequency Analysis studies. His work has been recognized with the Premier’s Research Excellence Award and Young Investigator Award from the Canadian Image Processing and Pattern Recognition Society. York Research Chair CFI Exceptional Opportunities Grant recipient ORF Research Excellence Grant recipient Professor Elder supervises graduate students including Maria Koshkina, Kumar Vaibhav Jha, and Nizwa Javed. His lab collaborates with institutions like Justus Liebig University Giessen and the Vector Institute for AI, with applications in hockey analytics and autonomous systems .

Knut Drewingمشاهده پروفایل

استاد

• Haptic Perception
• Multisensory Integration
• Sensorimotor Coordination
• +۴ مورد دیگر

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.

Wolfgang Einhäuser-Treyerمشاهده پروفایل

استاد

• Attention
• Eye movements
• Binocular rivalry
• +۷ مورد دیگر

Wolfgang Einhäuser-Treyer is a Full Professor of Physics of Cognition at the Chemnitz University of Technology , Germany, since 2015. His research focuses on understanding how the human brain extracts behaviorally relevant information from complex, ambiguous signals through studies on attention, eye movements, binocular rivalry, and their interactions with motivational and cognitive processes in naturalistic settings. Key research areas: Attentional selection in natural scenes Perceptual decision-making and binocular rivalry Age-related changes in visual processing Motivational salience and gaze control Current projects: B1: Interaction of visual and motivational salience B4: Information value effects in associative learning B5: Value-based perception-action modulation during aging He contributes to software development for ethics review boards and serves on multiple academic committees including the CRC1410 Hybrid Societies and Center for Sensing and Cognition (CeSeCo) . His work involves psychophysics, eye-tracking, neural imaging, and pharmacological interventions. As an Editorial Board member of the Journal of Vision (since 2018) and Academic Editor for PLoS Computational Biology (since 2022), he actively participates in academic publishing. His research has been funded by collaborative research centers and grants targeting cognition, perception, and aging. Collaborations span institutions like Justus Liebig University Giessen , Philipps-University Marburg , and international teams in Switzerland, USA, and Israel. Students and employees in his group include Sabine Grimm, Patricia Müller, and others working on cognitive neuroscience and perception.

Mathias Hegeleمشاهده پروفایل

استاد

• Motor Learning
• Cognitive Neuroscience
• Error Prediction
• +۵ مورد دیگر

Mathias Hegele is a Professor at the Faculty of Psychology and Sports Science, Justus-Liebig Universität Gießen. His research focuses on motor learning, predictive error processing, and the neural mechanisms underlying human agency and sports performance. Project B6: Investigates predictive error perception in natural environments Project C5: Explores animate-inanimate distinctions in action and language perception His work combines neurophysiological methods with behavioral experiments, spanning studies on elite basketball players, schizophrenia patients, and general motor adaptation. Collaborators include Prof. Dr. Hermann Müller and Dr. Lisa Maurer. Recent publications analyze: Mechanisms of outcome prediction in sports Neural correlates of error valuation Agency perception in biological motion tracking Sensory signal integration in motor tasks He advises PhD students Theresa Brand and Lea Junge-Bornholt, with email contact mathias.hegele@sport.uni-giessen.de.

Dimitris Voudourisمشاهده پروفایل

پژوهشگر

• Sensorimotor Control
• Somatosensory Perception
• Human Movement
• +۴ مورد دیگر

Dimitris Voudouris is a Postdoctoral Researcher and Commissioner for the Promotion of Young Scientists at the Department of Psychology and Sports Science, Justus Liebig University Giessen. His work focuses on sensorimotor control, somatosensory perception, and gaze mechanisms in human movement, employing techniques like motion tracking, psychophysics, and VR studies. PhD in Human Movement Sciences (2013), Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam MSc (2007) and BSc (2005) in Physical Education & Sports Sciences, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Research explores how sensorimotor predictions interact with sensory feedback during complex movements, particularly in aging populations. Key projects include Predictive somatosensory processing during voluntary movements (CRC project A4) and tactile suppression dynamics across bimanual grasping to whole-body balance tasks. Teaching portfolio includes master's seminars on Programming S1/S2 , Body Movement Analysis , and bachelor's courses on Perception & Action . Supervises bachelor's and master's theses in sensorimotor research.