NEWS! Oliver Brock re-elected as Cluster’s spokesperson, Exec Board reconfirmed
An important part of the Scientific Networking Days 2022 was the election of the cluster's spokesperson and executive board for the next years. According to our internal regulations, the election is meant to happen after the first four years of life of the cluster. We are pleased to announce that the cluster re-elected Oliver Brock and confirmed
NEWS! Olga Wudarczyk-Market accepts professorship in Psychology
We are excited to announce that Olga Wudarczyk-Markett will be starting a professorship in Psychology at the IU -International University of Applied Sciences, starting in October 2022. The most heartfelt congratulations from the whole cluster!
INTERVIEW: Angelica Godinez on Visual Perception and Life at SCIoI
Angelica Godinez is a vision scientist and a postdoc researcher at SCIoI working in Martin Rolfs' team on Project 2. Her research aims at understanding visual perceptual processing and action in humans in order to contribute insights to AI and robotics. We spoke to her in order to better understand her project and her work, and
NEWS! What are Futures Made of? The “CollActive Materials” project has started
The month of May brings us the first event of the the experimental laboratory CollActive Materials, a joint project of the Berlin Clusters of Excellence Matters of Activity – Image Space Material and Science of Intelligence. In this project, society and science speculate together about the materials of tomorrow: What might they look like or feel like?
NEWS: SCIoI PI Thorsten Pachur received a W3 professorship at TU München
We are very proud to announce that last month, our PI Thorsten Pachur recently received a W3 Professorship at the Technische Universität München (TUM). Thorsten, who will still remain a SCIoI PI, studies the cognitive foundations of decision making, and is particularly interested in understanding how the human mind, given informational and computational constraints, can master an uncertain
NEWS: SCIoI in Antarctica! SCIoI collaborated with an Oxford University expedition to observe penguin behavior
What do penguins have to do with SCIoI? Thanks to a collaboration between SCIoI PIs Alex Kacelnik and Guillermo Gallego, SCIoI was able to send event cameras all the way to Antarctica and help researchers install them there in order to study interactions between chinstrap penguins. Can't get more remote than that, can it? Penguins spend most