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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
    1999-2003 Bachelor of Science in Imaging Science, Rochester Institute of Technology, USA

  • Academic and Professional Career

    2021-current Professor of Psychology of information processing, Institute of Psychology, Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany
    2023 Visiting Professor, Zuckerman Institute, Columbia University, NYC, USA
    2017 Visiting Professor, Department of Cognitive Science , Central European University (CEU), Budapest, Hungary
    2013-current Adjunct Fellow, Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany
    2013-2021 W2 professor (associate professor equivalent), 'Psychology of Information Processing', Institute of Psychology, Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany
    2012-2013 Substitute Professor, Institute of Cognitive Science, University of Osnabrück, Germany
    2010-2013 Principal Investigator of the 'Beliefs, representations, and actions group', Bernstein Focus Neurotechnology, Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, Germany
    2009-2012 Lecturer, Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany
    2008-2010 Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, Germany

  • Institutional Responsibilities

    2021-current Speaker of the Cluster project ‘The Adaptive Mind’ funded by the Hessian Ministry of Higher Education, Research, Science and the Arts (HMWK)
    2020-current Founding member and member of the executive board of the Hessian Center for Artificial Intelligence, hessian.ai, Darmstadt
    2018 General chair of the 14th Biannual Conference of the German Cognitive Science Society, KOGWIS2018, Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany
    2017-2018 Head of committee for the development of first BSc and MSc 'Cognitive Science' at Technical University of Darmstadt
    2016-current Founding Director, Centre for Cognitive Science, Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany

  • Commissions of Trust

    2022-current Faculty member of the DAAD Konrad Zuse School of Excellence in Learning and Intelligent Systems” (ELIZA)
    2020-current Member of the Governing Board of the German Society for Cognitive Science (GK)
    2020-current Editorial board member Cognitive Systems Research, Elsevier
    2020-current Member of the ELLIS (European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems) Unit Darmstadt
    2019-current Editorial member Scientific Reports, Nature Research
    2018 – 2020 Member of the Advisory Board of the German Society for Cognitive Science (GK)
    2017 Faculty at the first Spring School on Intelligence and Cognition, The Joint Exploratory Society for Interdisciplinary and Cognitive Studies, Cairo, Egypt
    2016-2018 Member of the Governing Board of the German Society for Cognitive Science (GK)

  • Fellowships, Awards and Third Party Funding

    2022-2026 ERC Consolidator 'ACTOR - Towards a computational account of natural sequential behavior'
    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
    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'
    2020 Best Ph.D. thesis in the department of human sciences for the year 2019 to my student David Hoppe, Technical University of Darmstadt
    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'
    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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