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.

Robert Geirhos

Postdoc @ NIP jointly with Wieland Brendel from 11/2021 to 06/2022. Continued as a scientist at Google Brain, Toronto, Canada.

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.

David-Elias Künstle

PhD student @ NIP from 2020 to 2024
Thesis title Machine Learning for Psychophysical Scaling with Ordinal Comparisons, University of Tübingen. Left academia and continued to work in industry.

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.

Jannik Reichert

Project student @ NIP from 10/2023 to 01/2024

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.

Franziska Kreis

MSc student @ NIP from 10/2023 to 04/2024
Thesis title Exploring Dynamic Effects in Distortion Perception: An Analysis of the Influence of Spectacle Lens Distorions on Perception using a Virtual Reality Simulation, University of Tübingen.

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.

Barbara Mühlbauer

MSc student @ NIP from 01/2024 to 07/2024
Thesis title The effect of stimulus frequency and range on category differentiation, University of Tübingen. Continued as a PhD student @ Research Group Evolutionary Cognition, University of Tübingen.

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.

Maren Reiber

MSc student @ NIP from 03/2024 to 09/2024
Thesis title Simulation-based power analysis for psychometric functions, University of Tübingen.

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.

Jonas Schmiegel

MSc student @ NIP from 05/2023 to 12/2023
Thesis title Characterisation of a high luminance resolution display for psychophysical experiments, University of Tübingen.

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.

Line Abele

BSc student @ NIP from 04/2022 to 09/2022
Thesis title Luminance Sensitivity in Realistic Context: Realism Can Affect Thresholds, University of Tübingen.

Jannis Ahlert

BSc student @ NIP from 01/2024 to 06/2024
Thesis title Alignment of Alignment Benchmarks, University of Tübingen.

Regina Barsukov

BSc student @ NIP from 04/2022 to 09/2022
Thesis title Human judgment at the discrimination of similarity of lightness and brightness in a realistic context using the method of triads, University of Tübingen.

Edward Beach

BSc student @ NIP from 11/2022 to 04/2023
Thesis title Lightness and Brightness Scaling and the Effect of Stimulus Realism, 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.

Tanja Huber

BSc student @ NIP from 04/2022 to 09/2022
Thesis title Does realistic context affect human similarity judgements regarding lightness and brightness in matching and rating tasks?, 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.

Nik Novik

BSc student @ NIP from 07/2023 to 12/2023
Thesis title Investigating the effect of network pruning on filter interpretability, 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.

Abbas Sabouni

BSc student @ NIP from 11/2022 to 07/2023
Thesis title Effects of realism on luminance sensitivity thresholds, 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.

Tizian Thieringer

BSc student @ NIP from 02/2021 to 04/2022
Thesis title Benchmarking the latest machine vision developments against human categorization performance, 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

Franziska Kreis 04/2023 to 09/2023

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

Mila Quiñonero Candela Intern 06/2022 to 07/2022

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

Genc Ahmeti 04/2023 to 06/2023

Regina Barsukov 10/2021 to 09/2022

Anja Barth 11/2022 to 05/2023

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

Barbara Mühlbauer 11/2022 to 03/2024

Long Nguyen 10/2021 to 07/2022

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

Inés Schönmann 09/2021 to 08/2022

Luca Schulze Buschoff 05/2021 to 12/2021

Madhavi Sen 07/2023 to 08/2023

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