About Me

I'm interested in understanding, (neuro)cognitive interaction and adaptation to the variabilities of the environment. More specifically my work assesses and advances modelling in cognitive neuroscience and the scientific realism debate applied to the Bayesian Brain hypothesis and active inference.

My work embodies the synergies of my collaborations. I combine methods from embodied and enactive cognitive science, complexity, to the free energy principle / Active (Bayesian) inference  in the understanding and characterisation of psychological experience, development, and (neuro)cognitive functions of adaptive systems in sociocultural settings.

I conduct independent research on cultural aspects of cognition, i.e. psychological experience, development, and (neuro)cognitive functions of adaptive systems in sociocultural settings, ever more technological, artificially intelligent, and digitalised. I have just been awarded a Talent Grant by the Amsterdam Brain and Cognition (University of Amsterdam) (125k), for research on the relation between technology, AI, and mental health.
I have applied my academic skills for societal impact by co-founding and directing the European Institute for Global Well-being (registered under the Netherlands Chamber of Commerce, based in the health valley in Amersfoort). Our goal is – in line with the European Commission’s policy “make results count for society”, UNESCO’s Sustainable development policy and NWO “Science with Industry” – to serve as a hub for cooperation and expanding the notion of open science for societal outreach by connecting and informing organisations with the responsibility of making important decisions in the building of well-being societies and communities of the future on how to make science- and knowledge-based decisions.
Areas of specialisation: Philosophy of Neuroscience; Philosophy of Mind/AI; Philosophy of Science; Computational Neuroscience; Complexity.

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Affiliations
Lecturer at Berlin School of Mind and Brain 
Humboldt-Universitat zu Berlin

Fellow at Developmental Psychology 
Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences 
​University of Amsterdam

Affiliated member at
Wellcome Centre Human Neuroimaging
University College London

Co-founding Director of
​European Institute for Global Well-being
(E-Glow Institute)

Co-founder of 
International Society for the Philosophy of the Sciences of the Mind
(with Gualtiero Piccinini).
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