Bio

I am a postdoctoral research associate at the Artificial and Natural Intelligence Toulouse Institute and the Research Center for Brain and Cognition, where I work with Rufin VanRullen’s team. My research focuses on developing machine learning architectures that integrate global workspace theory with deep learning, aiming to understand how multimodal sensorimotor representations contribute to cognition, AI, and consciousness.

I was visiting scholar at the New York University Center for Mind, Brain and Consciousness. Under the supervision of David Chalmers, together with Luke Roelofs we explored the ethical and existential implications if consciousness science were to discover that consciousness extends beyond the biological realm. 

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My previous postdoctoral work with Fred Hamker’s group at the Technical University of Chemnitz involved neurocomputational modeling of reinforcement learning and cognitive control in spatial cognition and attention, as well as projects in embodied AI. I also served as a research coordinator for Chemnitz’s Computer Science faculty, leading interdisciplinary collaboration efforts for faculty wide grant application.

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During my doctorate at the Institute of Cognitive Science at Osnabrück University in Peter König's lab, I investigated the role of embodiment in spatial cognition, designing and implementing a large-scale VR study to explore egocentric and allocentric memory processing. My early academic background in physics at Munich and Bonn centered on synaptic plasticity in memory formation and particle detection with machine learning, grounding my interdisciplinary approach to cognition and intelligence research.