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Tobias Hauser
Principal Investigator | Tübingen & UCL
Tobias is a full Professor of Computational Psychiatry at the University of Tübingen and an Honoray Professor at University College London (UCL). As the head of the Developmental Computational Psychiatry group, he wants to understand how neurocognitive mechanisms can go awry and lead to mental health problems.


Meng Gao
lab manager | Tübingen
Meng is currently training to become a psychotherapist. Meng holds a PhD in cognitive neuroscience and is deeply fascinated by the complexities of the brain, particularly its functions and malfunctions in psychiatric conditions. Meng is excited to see new scientific advancements that bridge the gap between research and clinical practice, which contribute to a deeper understanding of the brain, and can lead to more effective interventions and treatments for those affected by mental health disorders.


Susan Fischer
Research coordinator | Tübingen
Susan runs both the DevComPsy lab and Peter Dayan’s group at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics and the University of Tübingen administratively, focussing on people, finance, operations, grants and strategy. She has previously worked in different research and higher education institutions both in Germany and United Kingdom (Max Planck UCL Centre, London; Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, London; MRC Centre for Developmental Neurobiology at King’s College London; German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases, Dresden) and has gained a vast knowledge and invaluable experience of the workings of large undertakings. Susan is passionate about new work concepts and diversity, equity and inclusion and is heavily involved in the coordination of the CaCTüS Internship programme and a campus-wide Diversity Seminar Series.


Floor Burghoorn
Postdoc | Tübingen
Floor is broadly interested in reinforcement learning, decision-making, and their role in mental health. She has previously studied the role of Pavlovian biases in impatient intertemporal choice, revolving around the Pavlovian approach response elicited by immediate rewards, and its implication for mental health problems characterized by impatience. In the DCP lab, Floor will study cognitive profiles of depression, using various learning and decision-making tasks from the Brain Explorer App. Moreover, she will study fluctuations in depressive cognition using Ecological Momentary Assessment (EMA).


Ben Jonathan Wagner
Postdoc | Tübingen
Ben has worked on the role of dopamine in intertemporal choice, reinforcement learning, and the interplay between habitual and goal-directed behaviour in mental health and disease. He is broadly interested in how the brain interprets the world under uncertainty, drawing on concepts from the Bayesian brain and active inference. In the DCP lab, Ben will focus on joint computational modelling of large datasets from different behavioural tasks and questionnaire data.