Research Team 2023–2025/26
Last update: September 2026
Researchers
Simon Ciranka, Marwa El Zein (until 12/2023), Nadine Fleischhut (as of 04/2026: Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany), Ralph Hertwig, Stefan M. Herzog, Anastasia Kozyreva, Ralf H. J. M. Kurvers, Philipp Lorenz-Spreen (as of 09/2024: TUD Dresden University of Technology, Germany), Mehdi Moussaïd (until 09/2023), David Pietraszewski (as of 02/2024: University of California, Santa Barbara, USA), Zoe Rahwan, Christin Schulze (as of 07/2023: UNSW Sydney, Australia), Mika Toyota, Dirk U. Wulff (as of 09/2026: WU Vienna (Vienna University of Economics and Business), Austria), Nikolas Zöller
Postdoctoral Fellows
Jinan N. Allan (as of 08/2023: Clemson University, USA), Julian Berger (as of 03/2026: Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain), Florian Bolenz (until 09/2024), Maria Almudena Claassen, Dominik Deffner (as of 09/2024: Marburg University, Germany), Félicie Dhellemmes, Kamil Fuławka (as of 10/2024: TUD Dresden University of Technology, Germany), Nur Givon-Benjio, David Grüning, Lou M. Haux, Marwa M. Kavelaars (as of 12/2024: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany), Pietro L. Nickl, Lisa Oswald (as of 01/2026: Goethe University Frankfurt/Main, Germany), Alexander Schakowski, Mubashir Sultan, Shweta Suran, Anna I. Thoma, Kevin E. Tiede (as of 01/2024: University of Erfurt, Germany), Alan N. Tump (as of 01/2024: Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany), Xinyi Zhao, Carolin-Theresa Ziemer
Predoctoral Fellows
Samuel Aeschbach (as of 10/2024: University of Basel, Switzerland), Michael Geers (LIFE; as of 03/2024: University College Dublin, Ireland), Marlene Hecht (LIFE; until 11/2025), Shahar Hechtlinger, Linda Kerbl (LIFE), Valentin Kriegmair, Ezequiel López López (as of 06/2025: TUD Dresden University of Technology, Germany), Konstantin Offer (MPSCog; until 08/2025), Caedyn Stinson (MPSCog; until 07/2025), Sarah Swanke (LIFE; until 10/2024), Taisiia Tikhomirova, Yujia Yang
Associate Research Scientists
Jason Burton (Copenhagen Business School (CBS), Denmark), Nadine Fleischhut (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany), Anton Gollwitzer (Norwegian Business School (BI), Oslo, Norwegian), Niklas Keller (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany), Tomás Lejarraga (University of the Balearic Islands, Palma, Spain), Stephan Lewandowsky (University of Bristol, UK), Philipp Lorenz-Spreen (TUD Dresden University of Technology, Germany), Jutta Mata (University of Mannheim, Germany), Lisa Oswald (Goethe University Frankfurt/Main, Germany), Thorsten Pachur (Technical University of Munich, Germany), Christin Schulze (UNSW Sydney, Australia), Leonidas Spiliopoulos, Wouter van den Bos (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands), Dirk U. Wulff (WU Vienna (Vienna University of Economics and Business), Austria)
Visiting Researchers
Christoph Abels (University of Potsdam, Germany), Elisa Altgassen (Ulm University, Germany), Shalya Anand (Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands), Conrad Blau (MPI for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany), Jason Burton (Copenhagen Business School (CBS), Denmark), Xiaohong Cai (The University of Kansas, Lawrence, USA), Valerii Chirkov (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany), Nina Ehmann (University of Konstanz, Germany), Nur Givon-Benjio (University of Haifa, Israel), Guy Grinfeld (Tel Aviv University, Israel), John Gubernath (Freie Universität Berlin, Germany), Lin Hanzhe (Wageningen University & Research, Netherlands), James Harris (University of Luxembourg, Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg), Zakir Hussain (University of Basel, Switzerland), Monika Keller (Freie Universität Berlin, Germany), Martin Kohlrausch (KU Leuven, Belgium), Fleur Korzilius (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands), Lothar Krappmann, Kiri Kuroda (JSPS – Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Tokyo, Japan), Julieta Laurino (Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina), Tomás Lejarraga (University of the Balearic Islands, Palma, Spain), Stephan Lewandowsky (University of Bristol, UK), Anna Sofia Lippolis (Università di Bologna, Italy), Quentin Loisel (Glasgow Caledonian University, UK), Shenghua Luan (Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China), Jonathan Marienhagen (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany), Jelena Meyer (University of Konstanz, Germany), Ikuno Ochi (Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan), Marina Papadopoulou, Ilse Pit (University of Oxford, UK), Kavitha Ranganathan (T A Pai Management Institute (TAPMI), Manipal, India), Carlos Rey Romero (University of the Balearic Islands, Palma, Spain), Gwenolé Richard (ESPCI Paris (École Supérieure de Physique et de Chimie Industrielles), France), Piero Ronzani (Università Vita-Salute San Raffaele, Milan, Italy), Fabian Rüsenberg (Freie Universität Berlin, Germany), Christian Schmauder (MPI for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany), Alina Schneider (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany), Berber Siersma (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands), Tobia Spampatti (Swiss National Science Foundation, Bern, Switzerland), Friederike Stock (Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes e.V., Bonn, Germany), Anushari Wathiyage Don (Technical University of Munich, Germany), Justin Yeung Wang Ngai (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands), Wanxin Zhong (Duke University, Durham, USA)
A current list of the Center's staff with links to their web profiles can be found on the Center's website.