Alumni

Jinan Allan was a postdoc at ARC and with the Science of Intelligence Cluster of Excellence (2021-2023). She is now an Assistant Professor of Psychology at Clemson University in South Carolina.

Junyi Dai was a Postdoc in the cognitive modeling project between 2014 and 2017. He then returned to China as an Assistant Professor at the Department of Psychology and Behavioral Sciences in Zhejiang University.

Renato Frey was a postdoctoral researcher during the first two years of ARC (2012-2014). He is now an SNSF Eccellenza professor and head of Cognitive and Behavioral Decision Research at the Department of Psychology, University of Zurich.

Philipp Gerlach joined ARC in 2013 as a doctoral student. After completing his dissertation he stayed as a postdoc until 2017. Philipp then became a Full Professor for Experimental and Social Psychology at Fresenius University, Hamburg, Germany.

Anton Gollwitzer was a Postdoc at ARC between 2021 and 2022. He now serves as an Assistant Professor at BI Norwegian Business School and as an Associate Research Scientist at the MPIB. He earned his PhD at Yale University, following degrees in Computer Science and Psychology at New York University. His research spans across psychology, decision making, motivation, and human behavior.

Sebastian Horn was a Postdoc/Researcher Scientist at ARC from 2012 to 2017. He investigated motivated cognition across the lifespan (with a focus on developmental differences in decision and memory processes) using cognitive modeling tools. He is now a Senior Researcher (independent Research Group Leader) at the University of Zurich in Switzerland.

Bertrand Jayles was a Postdoc at ARC ( 2018-2020) where he studied collective decision-making in human groups with Dr. Ralf Kurvers. He then moved on to study social resilience as a Research Fellow at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, and now joined the EDHEC Infrastructure Institute as a Senior Sustainability Data Scientist.

Liza Konovalova was a Postdoc until August 2020 working with Thorsten Pachur. She is now an Associated Professor of Behavioural Science at Warwick Business School at the University of Warwick. 

Tomás Lejarraga was a research scientist at the Center for Adaptive Rationality from 2013 to 2016. He studied on human risk taking and rationality. He continues to be an Associate Scientist and to visit the institute regularly. He is now an Associate Professor at the Universitat de les Illes Balears.

Ying Li was a postdoc at ARC from 2019 to 2022. He is now an associate professor at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing.

Jutta Mata was a Research Scientist at ARC from 2012-2014. Her research focuses on individual, social, and other environmental influences on health behaviors, particularly related to eating, physical activity, and obesity. She is now a Full Professor of Health Psychology at the University of Mannheim, Germany and also an Associate Scientist at ARC.

Rui Mata was a Senior Research Scientist at ARC from 2012 to 2014 and worked on understanding the development of economic preferences across the life span. He is now an Associate Professor at the University of Basel, Switzerland.

Lucas Molleman came to ARC as a postdoc in 2016. In 2018, he moved on to another postdoc at the University of Amsterdam in The Netherlands, where he is now an Assistant Professor.

Christin Schulze was a Senior Research Scientist and head of the research area Lifespan Development of Decision Making until 2023. She is now a Lecturer in Computational Cognitive Science at the University of New South Wales, Australia.

Dries Trippas was a postdoc at ARC from 2014 – 2017, applying mathematical modeling techniques to better understand decision making under uncertainty.
He is now Data Science Manager at Red Bull HQ in Salzburg, Austria.

Jan K. Woike was a Research Scientist at the Center from 2012. In June 2020, he started as a Lecturer (assistant Professor) at the University of Plymouth.

Charley Wu completed his PhD and then became a Postdoc at ARC. He left in 2019 for a postdoc at Harvard University. Since 2020, he has been an Independent Group Leader at the University of Tübingen, where he runs the Human and Machine Cognition Lab, with support from the Machine Learning Excellence Cluster and the Tübingen AI center.