Alumni
Simon Barthelmé
Postdoc @ TU Berlin from 2010 to 2012. Continued as postdoc in Daphne Bavelier's lab at the University of Geneva, CH.
Ingo Fründ
Postdoc @ TU Berlin from 2009 to 2012. Continued as postdoc in James Elder's lab at the University of York, CA.
Frank Jäkel
Postdoc @ TU Berlin from 2007 to 2008. Continued as postdoc in Josh Tenenbaum's lab at MIT, USA.
Marianne Maertens
Postdoc @ TU Berlin from 2008 to 2011. Continued as group leader of an independent DFG-Emmy-Noether Group at the TU Berlin.
Kristof Meding
Postdoc @ NIP from 06/2021 to 03/2022. Continued as a consultant for IT security and data protection at "Der Landesbeauftragte für Datenschutz und Informationsfreiheit Baden-Württemberg".
Thomas Wallis
Postdoc @ NIP from 2013 to 2016. Continued at the Bethge lab
Tiziano Zito
Postdoc @ TU Berlin from 2009 to 2011. Continued at the Institute for Theoretical Biology at the Humboldt University of Berlin.
Postdoc @ NIP from 01/2018 to 03/2018
Hannah Dold
PhD student @ TU Berlin from 2008 to 2012
Thesis title On modeling data from visual psychophysics: A Bayesian graphical model approach, Technische Universität Berlin. Left academia and continued to work in industry.
Robert Geirhos
PhD student @ NIP from 2018 to 2021
Thesis title To err is human? A functional comparison of human and machine decision-making., University of Tübingen. Continued as a postdoc @ NIP.
Robbe Goris
Co-supervised PhD student @ MPI for Biological Cybernetics and TU Berlin from 2005 to 2009
Thesis title Early Stages in Spatial Vision: Data and Models, University of Leuven. Continued as postdoc in Tony Movshon & Eero Simoncelli's labs at NYU, USA.
Arnulf Graf
Co-supervised PhD student @ MPI for Biological Cybernetics from 2000 to 2004
Thesis title Classification and Feature Extraction in Man and Machine, University of Tübingen. Continued as postdoc in Tony Movshon's lab at NYU,USA.
Frank Jäkel
PhD student @ MPI for Biological Cybernetics from 2004 to 2007
Thesis title Some Theoretical Aspects of Human Categorization Behavior: Similarity and Generalization, MPI for Biological Cybernetics. Continued as a postdoc @TU Berlin.
David Janssen
PhD student @ NIP from 2012 to 2017
Left academia before completion of his thesis.
Bernhard Lang
PhD student @ NIP from 2018 to 2021
Left academia before completion of his thesis.
Kristof Meding
PhD student @ NIP from 2018 to 2021
Thesis title Causal Inference in Vision, University of Tübingen. Continued as a postdoc @ NIP.
Pedro Rosas
Co-supervised PhD student @ MPI for Biological Cybernetics and KU Leuven from 1999 to 2004
Thesis title Reliability-sensitive depth-cue combination: Texture, motion, and haptic cues in slant discrimination, University of Leuven. Continued as research scientist in the Center for Integrated Neurosciences and the Department of Mathematical Engineering of the University of Chile, CL.
Vinzenz Schönfelder
PhD student @ TU Berlin from 2007 to 2012
Thesis title Identification of Stimulus Cues in Tone-in-Noise Detection with Sparse Logistic Regression, Technische Universität Berlin. Continued as a postdoc in Mathew Diamond’s laboratory at the SISSA in Trieste, Italy.
Heiko Schütt
PhD student @ NIP from 2014 to 2018
Thesis title Modelling Early Spatial Vision and its Influence on Eye Movements in Natural Scenes, University of Tübingen. Continued as a postdoc in Wei Ji Ma's lab at NYU and Nikolaus Kriegeskorte's lab at Columbia University.
Valentin Hänel
MSc student @ TU Berlin from 10/2010 to 06/2011
Thesis title A Large-Scale Comparison of Classical Bootstrap Confidence Intervals to Bayesian Credible Intervals for Psychometric Functions, TU and HU Berlin. Continued as software engineer at the Blue Brain Project of the EPFL in Lausanne, CH.
Lukas Huber
MSc student @ NIP from 10/2020 to 07/2021
Thesis title The Developmental Trajectory of Object Recognition Robustness: Comparing Children, Adults, and CNNs, University of Tübingen.
Frank Jäkel
MSc student @ MPI for Biological Cybernetics from 10/2002 to 04/2003
Thesis title m-Alternative Forced Choice: Exploring the Usefulness of Touch-Screens and the Efficiency of m-AFC Tasks in the Measurement of Contrast-Sensitivity, MPI for Biological Cybernetics. Continued as a PhD student @ MPI for Biological Cybernetics.
Bernhard Lang
MSc student @ NIP from 02/2017 to 09/2017
Thesis title Examining Lightness Perception with Photorealistically Rendered Scenes, University of Tübingen. Continued @NIP within the IMPRS Bridging fund for doctoral position at the GTC.
Shaohan Li
MSc student @ NIP from 06/2018 to 05/2019
Thesis title Comparison of partition scaling and MLDS in lightness perception, University of Tübingen.
Kristof Meding
MSc student @ NIP from 04/2017 to 10/2017
Thesis title Retinal image quality of the human eye across the visual field, University of Tübingen, co-supervised with Michael Hirsch, MPI-IS Tübingen. Continued as a PhD student @ NIP.
Patrick Putzky
MSc student @ NIP from 02/2013 to 08/2013
Thesis title Statistical framework for molecular psychophysics, co-supervised with Jakob Macke, University of Tübingen. Continued as a PhD student at the Intelligent Systems Lab Amsterdam under the supervision of Max Welling.
Johanna Salu
MSc student @ NIP from 02/2016 to 10/2016
Thesis title Perception of Chord Components in Consonant and Dissonant Pure Tone and Piano Chords, University of Tübingen. Continued @NIP within the IMPRS Bridging fund for doctoral position at the GTC.
Heiko Schütt
MSc student @ NIP from 03/2014 to 08/2014
Thesis title Painless Bayesian inference for psychometric functions, University of Tübingen. Continued as a PhD student @ NIP
Saskia Tobias
MSc student @ NIP from 04/2014 to 08/2014
Thesis title Human sensitivity to spatial distortions in peripheral vision, University of Tübingen.
Nils-Ole Breuer
BSc student @ NIP from 03/2021 to 07/2021
Thesis title Investigating the Arrow of Time in Predictive Neural Networks, University of Tübingen.
Robert Geirhos
BSc student @ NIP from 04/2016 to 08/2016
Thesis title Object Recognition in Man and Deep Neural Networks, University of Tübingen.
Anna Giron
BSc student @ NIP from 09/2017 to 03/2018
Thesis title Modeling classification images using generalized linear models, University of Tübingen.
Konstantin Helmsauer
BSc student @ NIP from 03/2014 to 08/2014
Thesis title Causal Inference and Noise Distributions in Early Vision, University of Tübingen.
Britta Lewke
BSc student @ NIP from 05/2015 to 12/2015
Thesis title Semantic and contextual influences on peripheral visual sensitivity, University of Tübingen.
Carlos Medina
BSc student @ NIP from 03/2017 to 08/2017
Thesis title Comparing deep neural networks against humans: resilience against image manipulations in natural image classification, University of Tübingen.
Wiebke Ringels
BSc student @ NIP from 09/2017 to 03/2018
Thesis title Measuring scene appearance - comparison of three psychophysical tasks, University of Tübingen.
Inés Schönmann
BSc student @ NIP from 04/2021 to 07/2021
Thesis title Similarity Judgements of Natural Images: Instructions Affect Observers' Decision Criteria and Consistency, University of Tübingen.
Freya Thießen
BSc student @ NIP from 04/2018 to 09/2018
Thesis title Distinguishing perceptual from decisional processes using confidence, University of Tübingen.
Lab rotation students
Sebastian Bruijns 10/2018 to 01/2019
Nicole Eichert 09/2015 to 11/2015
Tobias Feuerecker 04/2019 to 10/2019
Nathasja Franke 9/2016 to 02/2017
Markus Frey 04/2014 to 08/2014
Robert Geirhos 01/2016 to 03/2016
Marius Görner 03/2015 to 10/2015
Peter Kraemer 12/2015 to 03/2016
Dörte Kuhrt 04/2014 to 08/2014
Bernhard Lang 10/2016 to 02/2017
Jan Lause 09/2017 to 11/2017
Peiyue Liu 12/2019 to 04/2020
Miriam Marthaler 03/2018 to 07/2018
Noemi Martin 09/2013 to 02/2014
Kristof Meding 02/2017 to 04/2017
Jonathan Oesterle 10/2017 to 02/2018
Harald Papp 01/2016 to 04/2016
Niclas Renner 05/2015 to 12/2016
Luca Schulze Buschoff 11/2020 to 03/2021
Heiko Schütt 09/2013 to 02/2014
Michaela Socher 09/2013 to 02/2014
Raffael Veser 10/2019 to 02/2020
Patrick Weis 02/2013 to 04/2013
Marlene Weller 04/2018 to 09/2018
Ole-Jonas Wenzel 10/2019 to 02/2020
Shuchen Wu 03/2019 to 06/2019
Essay rotation students
David Hoffmann 09/2017 to 10/2017
Sophie Laturnus 09/2015 to 10/2015
Azadeh Nazemorroaya 09/2016 to 10/2016
Theresa Stadler 09/2015 to 10/2015
Student research assistants
Nikita Agarwal 02/2020 to 01/2021
Sebastian Bruijns 02/2019 to 06/2019
Mirza Canovic 11/2017 to 07/2018
Tobias Feuerecker 04/2019 to 08/2019
Ole Fortmann 11/2015 to 04/2016
Robert Geirhos 02/2016 to 03/2016, 10/2016 to 09/2017 and 02/2018 to 04/2018
Valentin Hänel 01/2007 to 12/2011
Konstantin Helmsauer 10/2014 to 01/2015
Lukas Huber 10/2020 to 03/2022
Bernhard Lang 10/2017 to 12/2017
Jan Lause 01/2018 to 07/2018 and in 11/2018
Carlos Medina 05/2018 to 07/2018 and in 10/2018
Benjamin Mitzkus 10/2020 to 12/2020
Oliwia Oles 11/2019 to 03/2020
Vincent Plikat 11/2018 to 01/2019 and 04/2019 to 12/2019
Patrick Putzky 01/2013 to 07/2013
Alina Renz 10/2017 to 05/2018
Wiebke Ringels 11/2018 to 08/2019
Patricia Rubisch 12/2015 to 09/2018
Johanna Salu 04/2016 to 09/2016, 05/2017 to 09/2017, 06/2018 to 07/2018, 01/2019 to 06/2019 and 08/2019 to 11/2019
Lasse Schlör 10/2020 to 09/2021
Luca Schulze Buschoff 05/2021 to 12/2021
Raffael Veser 07/2020 to 10/2020
Markus Wallner 10/2018 to 02/2019
Ole Jonas Wenzel 05/2020 to 10/2020
Tiziano Zito 07/2017 to 12/2017