Marieke Rohde

Perception & Embodiment

Co-founder and Chief Analytics Officer (CAO) at AFFS Affective Signals GmbH, Berlin.

Postdoctoral researcher, Center of Excellence: Cognitive Interaction Technology (CITEC), University of Bielefeld. Projects: THE - The Hand Embodied (EU FP7) and GoToGoal (CITEC).

Postdoctoral researcher (principal investigator) on personal DFG project ELAPS: Embodied Latency Adaptation and the Perception of Simultaneity. Department of Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Bielefeld.

Postdoctoral researcher, Multisensory Perception and Action Group (Marc O. Ernst), Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen.

JSPS Short Term Postdoctoral Fellow, Ikegami Lab: Complex Systems and Artificial Life. University of Tokyo, Japan.

D.Phil. in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, Centre for Computational Neuroscience and Robotics (CCNR), University of Sussex, UK.

ERASMUS research stay, Groupe Suppléance Perceptive (GSP), Technical University of Compiègne (UTC), France.

M.Sc. in Evolutionary and Adaptive Systems (with distinction), University of Sussex, UK.

B.Sc. in Cognitive Science (with distinction), University of Osnabrück, Germany.

Student researcher (internship + B.Sc. project) Intelligent Dynamical Systems Group (InDy) at the Fraunhofer Institute for Autonomous Intelligent Systems (AIS) in St. Augustin, Germany.

Semester abroad, University of Costa Rica, San José, Costa Rica.

General Studies (Studium Generale). Leibniz Kolleg, Tübingen, Germany.

DFG Grant ELAPS: Embodied Latency Adaptation and the Perception of Simultaneity (Eigene Stelle)

€ 200 000

CIN project grant: Centre for Integrative Neuroscience (CIN), Tübingen (awarded but not taken up): Touching One's Own Fake Hand

€ 25 000

JSPS Short Term Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Ikegami Lab, University of Tokyo, Japan.

approx. € 10 000

Teaching Assistantship for doctorate students by the School of Science and Technology, University of Sussex.

EPSRC scholarship (study fees) for the M.Sc. Evolutionary and Adaptive Systems at the University of Sussex.

MLP-Award for Excellence in Studies, University of Osnabrück.

Competitive semester scholarship by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) for a semester abroad in Costa Rica.

Affective computing, interaction dynamics, sensory delays, temporal processing, multisensory integration, motor control, haptics, sensorimotor adaptation, sense of agency and body ownership, embodiment.

• Multisensory interfaces and Virtual Reality
• Computational modelling (statistical models, ideal observer models, agent control models, simulation models)
• Behavioural experiments (human psychophysics, multisensory perception, motor control, sensorimotor adaptation and skill-learning)
• Various programming languages and methods (e.g., neural networks, physics simulations, OpenGL, genetic algorithms, artificial intelligence, C, C++, Java, Matlab, R; getting started on python).

• Organisation of the annual retreats of the Cognitive Neuroscience Department University of Bielefeld, 2012 and 2013.
• Organising committee of the first, second, and third CNRS summer school Enaction and Cognitive Science (2006-2008, various locations in France).
• Co-organisation of the Workshop on Agency in Natural and Artificial Systems, 11.-12.07.2008 in Kyoto, Japan.
• Co-organiser of The Cyborg Experiment at the Cheltenham Festival of Science 2005.

• Since December 2014: Editorial board Timing and Time Perception Reviews.
• Special issue on Agency in Natural and Artificial Systems, Adaptive Behavior, 17(5), 2009, with Takashi Ikegami.

ACM Transactions on Applied Perception, Adaptive Behavior, Algorithms, Attention Perception & Psychophysics, Avant, Cerebral Cortex, Cognition, Consciousness and Cognition, Cortex, Developmental Science, European Journal of Neuroscience, Experimental Brain Research, Interaction Studies, Journal of Experimental Psychology: Perception and Performance, Journal of Neuroscience, Journal of Visualized Experiments, Multisensory Research, Neuropsychologia, Perception, PLoS Computational Biology, PLoS ONE, Scientific Reports.

Research Foundation Flanders (FWO)

Eurohaptics 2014, European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL) 2011 - Workshop on Artificial Autonomy, Haptics Symposium 2014 and 2016, International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2016.

German (native), English (native level), Spanish (fluent), French (fluent), Japanese (beginner).