Cordula Vesper

Cordula is an associate professor in Cognitive Semiotics and Cognitive Science at the School of Communication and Culture at Aarhus University and a member of the Interacting Minds Center in Aarhus. Her background is in Cognitive Science and Neuro-cognitive Psychology, which she studied at the University of Osnabrück and Ludwigs-Maximilians-University Munich in her home country Germany. She received a PhD from Radboud University Nijmegen (Netherlands) for her thesis "Acting Together: Mechanisms of Intentional Coordination" supervised by Natalie Sebanz and Günther Knoblich. Afterwards she worked as a postdoc at Central European University in Budapest, Hungary, where she was involved in, among other things, the ERC Synergy project "Constructing Social Minds: Coordination, Communication, and Cultural Transmission" (SOMICS). Until summer 2019, she was also a young fellow at the Center for Advanced Studies in Bielefeld, Germany. Cordula joined the Department of Linguistics, Cognitive Science and Semiotics at Aarhus University in summer 2017. Since Spring 2019, she is a member of the Carlsberg-funded project "Experimenting, Experiencing, Reflecting" with PI Andreas Roepstorff and artist Olafur Eliasson.

Cordula's AU website

Curriculum Vitae

Martin Dockendorff

Martin is currently a PhD student at the Cognitive Science Department at Central European University in Vienna, Austria. He is working under the supervision of Günther Knoblich and Cordula Vesper. Previously, he graduated at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris with an MA in Cognitive Science. His research focuses on verbal and non-verbal forms of communication, and how they contribute to joint action.

Martin's CEU website

Local collaborators

  • Kristian Tylén, Department of Linguistics, Cognitive Science and Semiotics, Aarhus University, Denmark

  • Roberta Rocca, Department of Linguistics, Cognitive Science and Semiotics, Aarhus University, Denmark

  • Mikkel Wallentin, Department of Linguistics, Cognitive Science and Semiotics, Aarhus University, Denmark

  • Andreas Roepstorff, Interacting Minds Centre, Aarhus University, Denmark

International collaborators