Measuring BehaviorWe start each day with a plenary keynote session in which a distinguished speaker gives a talk which is of interest to all delegates with all their different research disciplines.
Prof. Felix Wichmann
Keynote Title:
Estimating internal representations
Career:
Felix Wichmann received his B.A. (1994) and DPhil (1999) in Experimental Psychology from the University of Oxford. After post-doctoral research at the University of Leuven (2000-2001), he worked as a research scientist in the Empirical Inference Department at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics in Tübingen (2001-2007). From 2007 to 2011 he was Associate Professor (W2) at the Technical University of Berlin and since 2011 he is Full Professor (W3) at the Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen. In his research, he investigates human perception combining psychophysical experiments with computational modelling, machine learning, and a strong emphasis on methods and method development.
Ahmed El Hady
Centre for the Advanced Study of Collective Behaviour.
University of Konstanz and Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior
Prof David Burr
University of Florence