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Curriculum vitae Prof. Constantin A. Rothkopf, PhD

  • Education

    2009 Joint PhD in Brain & Cognitive Sciences and Computer Science, University of Rochester, USA
    2003 Bachelor of Science in Imaging Science, Rochester Institute of Technology, USA

  • Academic and Professional Career

    2021- W3 professor, Institute of Psychology at Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany
    2017 Visiting Professor, Cognitive Science Department, Central European University (CEU), Budapest, Hungary
    2016 Founding director, Centre for Cognitive Science, Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany
    2013-21 W2 professor (associate professor equivalent), 'Psychology of Information Processing', Institute of Psychology at Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany
    2013 Adjunct Fellow, Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, Frankfurt, Germany
    2013-14 Substitute Professor ('Vertretungsprofessur'), Institute of Cognitive Science at the University of Osnabrück, Osnabrück, Germany
    2010-13 Principal Investigator of the 'Beliefs, representations, and actions group', Bernstein Focus Neurotechnology, Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, Germany
    2009-12 Lecturer, Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany
    2008-10 Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, Germany

  • Institutional Responsibilities

    2017-18 Head of committee for the development of first BSc and MSc 'Cognitive Science' at TU Darmstadt
    2016 – Director of the Centre for Cognitive Science, TU Darmstadt
    2013-15 Head of committee for the development of new MSc 'Psychology in Information Technology' at TU Darmstadt
    2013 Member in 13 faculty hiring committees at TU Darmstadt

  • Commissions of trust

    2020- Member of the Governing Board of the German Society for Cognitive Science (GK)
    2020- Editorial board member Cognitive Systems Research
    2020- Member of the ELLIS (European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems) Unit Darmstadt
    2019 Editorial member Scientific Reports
    2018 – 2020 Member of the Advisory Board of the German Society for Cognitive Science (GK)
    2016-18 Member of the Governing Board of the German Society for Cognitive Science (GK)

  • Fellowships, Awards and Third Party Funding

    2022 ERC Consolidator 'ACTOR - Towards a computational account of natural sequential behavior'
    2021 HMWK Cluster 'The adaptive Mind'
    2021 HMWK Cluster 'The third Wave of AI'
    2020 HMWK LOEWE 'Whitebox - Explainable models for human and artificial intelligence'
    2020 BMBF 'KOMPAKI - Competence center for work and AI'
    2020 BMBF 'IKIDA - Interactive Artificial Intelligence for Domain-experts and Every-day users'
    2020 BMBF 'PlexPlain - Explainable AI for complex linear programs'
    2019 DFG 'Sachbeihilfe', 'Active vision: control of eye-movements and probabilistic planning'
    2018 BMBF 'KOBO 34 - 'intuitive interaction with cooperative assistive robots for the 3rd and 4th age'
    2022 John I. Yellott Travel Award for Vision Science to my PhD student Dominik Straub for 'An analysis method for continuous psychophysics based on Bayesian inverse optimal control' by the Vision Sciences Society
    2020 Best Ph.D. thesis in the department of human sciences for the year 2019 to my student David Hoppe, Technical University of Darmstadt
    2018 Best paper award (2016-2018) to my PhD student David Hoppe for 'Learning rational temporal eye movement strategies', PNAS (2016) by the German Society for Cognitive Science
    2017 Best Poster Award, 2nd Place, Ben-Gurion University 2017, Catching Heuristics Are Optimal Control Policies; Belousov, B., Neumann, G., Rothkopf, C. A., & Peters, 13th Karniel Computational Motor Control Workshop, Israel
    2012 Paper of excellence award, Zhao, Y., Rothkopf, C. A., Triesch, J., & Shi, B. E., IEEE 8th International Conference on Development and Learning
    2011 Sloan Swartz Annual Meeting travel fellowship, Janelia Farm, the Bernstein Network
    2011 Cosyne Travel Grant, The Gatsby Charitable Foundation, USA
    2008 Student Travel Award, Vision Science Society, USA

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