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.
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.
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
Ivana Konvalinka, Denmarks Technical University (DTU), Copenhagen, Denmark
Günther Knoblich, Central European University, Hungary
Natalie Sebanz, Department of Cognitive Science, Central European University, Hungary
Janeen Loehr, University of Saskatchewan, Canada
Laura Schmitz, Institut für Sportwissenschaft, Leibniz Universität Hannover