Institute Faculty

Alessandro Duranti, UCLA

I study agency, intentionality and intersubjectivity in verbal and visual communication in political arenas, everyday life, and during music performance and rehearsals.

Andrew Whiten, University of St Andrews

My research focuses on the evolution of social learning, traditions and culture, which I study in human and non-human primates, especially chimpanzees.

Catherine Hobaiter, University of St Andrews

I study the evolution of communication, language, and social behavior through long-term, comparative field studies of wild apes.

Cristine Legare, University of Texas at Austin

I examine the interplay of the universal human mind and the variations of human culture to address fundamental questions about cognitive and cultural evolution.

David Krakauer, Santa Fe Institute

My research focuses on the evolutionary history of information processing mechanisms in biology and culture, including genetic, neural, linguistic and cultural mechanisms.

Elinor Ochs, UCLA

Primary among my many research interests is the role of language and culture in life span human development and learning across social groups.

Eörs Szathmáry, Eötvös Loránd University

I focus on the common principles of the major steps in evolution, such as the origin of life, the emergence of cells, the origin of animal societies, and the appearance of human language.

Erica Cartmill, UCLA

I study the acquisition and evolution of human language. My work bridges anthropology and psychology and involves both comparative and developmental approaches to communication.

Frans de Waal, Emory University

I draw parallels between primate and human behavior. My latest research concerns empathy and cooperation, inequity aversion and social cognition in chimpanzees, bonobos, and other species.

Hoifung Poon, Microsoft

My research interest can be summed up as developing "AI for Precision Medicine" to overcome bottlenecks in deciphering cancer and other complex diseases.

Jacob Foster, UCLA

I am interested in the birth, life, and death of ideas. Fundamentally, I aim to understand the social world as constituted by, and constitutive of, ideas, beliefs, and practices.

Jessica Flack, Santa Fe Institute

My particular interests are in the role of collective computation/intelligence in the origin of space and time scales and in the emergence of robust structure and function in nature and society.

Josep Call, University of St Andrews

My research focuses on technical and social problem solving in animals with a special emphasis on the great apes. Ultimately, my goal is to elucidate how cognition evolves.

Josh Tenenbaum, MIT

My colleagues and I seek to understand the everyday inductive leaps humans make in computational terms, which we apply to building powerful learning machines.

Mike Osborne, University of Oxford

I work to develop machine intelligence in sympathy with societal needs. I have deep interests in the broader societal consequences of machine learning and robotics.

Richard Byrne, University of St Andrews

I study the evolution of cognitive and social behaviour, particularly the origins of distinctively human characteristics.

Ronjon Nag, Stanford University

My interests are in the computational modeling of intelligence and ways to accelerate entrepreneurial translation of these concepts into products.

Steven Vaisey, Duke University

The main goal of my research is to understand moral and political beliefs: what they are, where they come from, and what they do.

Sue Healy, University of St Andrews

I investigate cognitive abilities in non-model organisms such as hummingbirds, zebra finches and bowerbirds and I am especially interested in 'animal cognition in the wild.’

Susan Goldin-Meadow, University of Chicago

My research identifies the fundamental properties of language and explores how gesture and spoken language shapes thought and cognitive development.

Vincent Janik, University of St Andrews

I investigate environmental constraints that influence the design of vocal communication systems and study the underlying cognitive skills required to overcome or circumvent such constraints.

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