Recap 2023: New Network Associates

30.01.2024

In 2023, the Vienna CogSciHub welcomed four new Network Associates: Barbara Klump, Theresa Matzinger, Blanka Misic, and Stefan Schulreich.

Ass.-Prof. Barbara Klump, PhD

Barbara Klump joined the Department of Behavioral and Cognitive Biology in 2023. She is the leader of WWTF Vienna Research Group "The interplay between cognition and ecology in extractive foraging behaviours", investigating the cognition and ecology of extractive foraging without tools in carrion crows, hooded crows, and sulphur-crested cockatoos.

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Mag. Theresa Matzinger, BSc MSc PhD

Theresa Matzinger is a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of English and American Studies. Her work focuses on the biological and cultural evolution of language(s), language learning, historical language change, and non-human animal communication and cognition. In her research, she combines methods from the fields of psycholinguistics, evolutionary linguistics, historical linguistics, corpus linguistics, sociolinguistics, behavioral economics, and behavioral biology.

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Blanka Misic, BA MA PhD

Blanka Misic is currently a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute of Classical Archaeology, working under the supervision of Prof. Günther Schörner. Her project, titled Cognitive Aspects of Mithraic Rituals in Pannonia (CAMRIP) aims to "shed light on how ritual practices were learned, performed, remembered, diffused, and transformed among different Mithraic communities in Pannonia".

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Ass.-Prof. Dr. Stefan Schulreich

Stefan Schulreich joined the Department of Nutritional Science in 2023 as an Assistant Professor (Tenure Track) of Nutritional Neuroscience. Stefan is the head of the Nutrition and Decision Neuroscience Laboratory, which investigates the relationship between nutrition and cognition, with a special emphasis on the underlying (neuro)biological and neurocomputational processes.

 

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