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Assistant Professor at University of Primorska (Faculty of Mathematics, Natural Sciences and Information Technologies)
About me
I am an Assistant Professor at University of Primorska (Faculty of Mathematics, Natural Sciences and Information Technologies), working at the intersection of cognitive science, philosophy and developmental psychology. I’m interested in a deceptively simple question: how do minds come to have structured thoughts at all? My research investigates how humans form and update mental models – how we learn concepts, infer hidden structure, and revise beliefs as evidence accumulates. I study these mechanisms across children and adults, with a growing focus on cognitively grounded comparisons between humans and AI systems.
From 2025 I am working on a three-year long grant as a PI.
Education and Research Experience
Postdoctoral Researcher (2022-2023 July), Centre for the Future of Intelligence, University of Cambridge
PhD in Cognitive Science (2017-2023), Donders Institute of Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University Nijmegen
MSc in Mind, Language and Embodied Cognition (2016-2017), University of Edinburgh
BSc in Psychology (2012-2016), University of Ljubljana
Research interests
Probabilistic Language of Thought: how people (and machines) use probabilistic grammars to generate and comprehend concepts
Cognitive Representations and Structure Learning: how humans acquire information, integrate it into mental models, and update those models as new evidence accumulates
Cognitively-Inspired Evaluation of AI: benchmarking AI systems with tasks grounded in human cognition
Cognition Across Minds: children, Adults & AI – mapping similarities and differences across developmental stages and artificial agents
Methods: computational modelling of cognition · behavioural experiments · conceptual analysis
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