Cordula Vesper

CURRICULUM VITAE

Associate professor in Cognitive Science and Cognitive Semiotics

Department of Linguistics, Cognitive Science, and Semiotics, School of Communication and Culture

& Interacting Minds Centre, School of Culture and Society

Aarhus Universitet

Jens Chr. Skous Vej 2, Office 1485-638

8000 Aarhus C, Denmark

Email: cvesper AT cc.au.dk

Joint action such as action coordination, synchronization, musical ensembles, sense of agency
Cognitive semiotics such as sensorimotor communication, common ground, cultural transmission
Motion-tracking such as recording and analysis of real-time social interaction
Art-science interaction such as public experiments and installations in museums

2009 – 2013 PhD in Social Sciences, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands

2006 – 2008 MSc in Neuro-cognitive Psychology, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany

2003 – 2006 BSc in Cognitive Science, University of Osnabrück, Germany

Since 2020 Associate professor, Aarhus University, Denmark

2017 – 2020 Assistant professor, Aarhus University, Denmark

2013 – 2017 Postdoctoral researcher, Central European University, Hungary

2012 Visiting researcher, University of Cincinnati, Ohio, USA

2007 Visiting researcher, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

2006 – 2008 Junior researcher, German Cluster of Excellence, Munich, Germany

2006 Visiting researcher, Rutgers University, Newark, New Jersey, USA

2021 Teaching support funding (motion lab equipment), IT Vest, Denmark

2018 – 2021 Research funding, Interacting Minds Centre, Aarhus, Denmark

2018 Research workshop funding, School of Communication and Culture, Denmark

2014 – 2019 Fellowship, Center for Advanced Study (ZiF), Bielefeld, Germany

2013 – 2014 Postdoctoral scholarship, Central European University Foundation, Hungary

2008 – 2008 Research funding, German Excellence Cluster, Germany

2007 – 2007 Scholarship, Bavarian Elite Network, Germany

2006 – 2006 Scholarship, German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), Germany

2021 Workshop on EEG Hyperscanning, Aarhus, Denmark

2019 Meeting of Scandinavian Association for Language and Cognition, Aarhus, Denmark

2018 Social Cognition Workshop, Aarhus, Germany

2017 - 2020 Public events at various museums: Tate Modern London (2017, 2019); Trapholt Museum Kolding (2019); Steno Museum Aarhus (2019);

Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo (2020); Dokk 1 Aarhus (2020)

2017 & 2018 Measuring Charismatic Expression, Bielefeld, Germany

2017 Diversity in Academia, Bielefeld, Germany

2015 6th Joint Action Meeting, Budapest, Hungary

2014 – 2016 Workshop series on Social Robotics: Edinburgh (2014); Portland ( 2015); Paris (2015); Toulouse (2016); New York City (2016)

2009 3rd Joint Action Meeting, Amsterdam, The Netherlands