CV

  • Since 2022: Postdoctoral Researcher in the Social Cognitive Systems Group, led by Prof. Dr.-Ing. Stefan Kopp at Bielefeld University
  • 2019-2022: Research Assistant in the project "Computational cognitive modeling of the predictive active self in situated action (COMPAS)" of the DFG Priority Programme 2134 "The Active Self"
  • 2015-2020: PhD (Dr.-Ing.) Thesis: "Social Motorics - a predictive processing model for efficient embodied communication", supervised by Prof. Dr.-Ing. Stefan Kopp, as a member of the Social Cognitive Systems Group, CITEC, Bielefeld University
  • 2015-2018: Research Assistant in the small scale high risk project SP-05 "Social Motorics" at CITEC, Social Cognitive Systems Group, Bielefeld University
  • 2014: Research Assistant at the Excellence Cluster Cognitive Interaction Technology (CITEC), Sociable Agents Group, Bielefeld University
  • 2013-2015: Research Assistant at the Collaborative Research Center 673, Project B1 "Speech-gesture Alignment", Bielefeld University
  • 2013: Master Thesis "Detecting semantic incongruity in human-machine interaction using low-cost EEG" in the laboratory of Prof. Dr.-Ing. Stefan Kopp, Sociable Agents Group, Bielefeld University
  • 2012-2013: Student Assistant at the Collaborative Research Center 673, Project B1 "Speech-gesture Alignment", Bielefeld University
  • 2010-2013: Master of Science in Intelligent Systems at Bielefeld University
  • 2010: Bachelor Thesis "Multimodal Scene Generation" in the laboratory of Prof. Dr. Peter König, Neurobiopsychology, University of Osnabrück
  • 2009: Internship at the Human Media Interaction group at University of Twente (Netherlands)
  • 2006-2010: Bachelor of Science in Cognitive Science at University of Osnabrück
  • 2005-2006: Civilian Service
  • 2002-2005: University Qualification

Memberships

Awards

  • Best Paper Award: 2nd Place - KogWis 2014: How is information distributed across speech and gesture? A cognitive modeling approach. Bergmann K, Kahl S, Kopp S (2014)
  • Best Paper Award - IVA 2013: Modeling the semantic coordination of speech and gesture under cognitive and linguistic constraints. Bergmann K, Kahl S, Kopp S (2013)