About this course
You participate in research activities focusing on the psychological, behavioral, and cognitive components of consciousness and perception. Classwork consists of supervision of your research activities and selected topics are reviewed relative to research (e.g., ethics, methods, and methodologies) in consciousness studies.
Syllabus
Faculty
Ginevra Sperandio
M.Sc., Cognitive Neuroscience, Sapienza Università di Roma (IT) (2019 – 2021). PhD Candidate, Neuroscience (Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow – Horizon 2020) Universität Heidelberg (DE) & Université Paris-Saclay (FR) 2021 – present. With DIS since 2025.
Xinyu Lai
B.Sc, Applied Psychology, Beijing Sport University, 2018 M.Sc., Neuroscience and Neuroimaging, Aarhus University, 2021 PhD Cand. in Cognitive Systems, Dept. of Applied Math & Comp. Sci, Technical University of Denmark, 2022. PhD fellow, Cognitive Systems, Dept. of Applied Math & Comp. Sci, Technical University of Denmark, 2022-present. With DIS since 2025.
Nicola Menale
Studied Business Economics in Vanvitelli University (Italy) in 2011 (with Thesys focused in Game Theory & Microeconomics). MSc in Economics and Social Sciences in Bocconi University (Italy) in 2013 with Thesys focused in Game theory & Decision Making. Master in Data Science at Nicoló Cusano University (Italy) in 2020 with Thesys focused in Deep Neural Network. Since 2013 he is working in Copenhagen in the data analysis field. He worked for International companies as Oticon A/S, Hollister inc., Radiometer A/S and he is currently working in Danske Bank as Senior Business Intelligence Analyst. Nicola’s motto is “In God we trust, all the rest must bring data”.” With DIS since 2019.
Dan-Anders Jirenhed
MSc in Cognitive Science from Linköping University (2001) and PhD in Neurophysiology from Lund University (2007). Prior to DIS, Dan worked as a Postdoctoral research fellow at Stanford University in the US (2009-2011) and as a researcher and teacher at Lund University (2011-2021). With DIS since 2024.