About me

I did my PhD at the intersection of Theoretical Computer Science and the Computational Cognitive Sciences at the University of Bristol. I am now a research scientist at the Ernst-Strüngmann Institute for Neuroscience, Max-Planck Society.

My research takes an interdisciplinary approach to problems at the intersection of artificial intelligence, psychology, linguistics, neuroscience, and philosophy of science. Part of my work focuses on developing and evaluating computational cognitive models as explanations for natural and artificial cognition, and uses tools from theoretical computer science to expose their computational properties. Another aspect of my work centers on how we come up with these explanations, how we can describe progress in developing them, and what stands in the way. For both of these research lines, I combine formal, conceptual, and empirical methods drawing on the strengths of each discipline.