Constantin Rothkopf, Ph.D.

Constantin Rothkopf is a professor at the Institute of Psychology with a secondary appointment in the Department of Computer Science, the founding director of the Center for Cognitive Science and a founding member of the Hessian Center for Artificial Intelligence at the Technical University of Darmstadt. His research uses behavioral experiments and computational modeling to understand human goal-directed behavior in naturalistic sensorimotor tasks such as navigation and object manipulation. His work emphasizes how perception, cognition and action are intertwined in sequential behavior under the full breadth of uncertainties encountered in the natural world. Often employing probabilistic control models, his lab has developed various inverse models for understanding the factors underlying behavior.

After obtaining a joint Ph.D. in brain and cognitive sciences and computer science from the University of Rochester in 2009, Rothkopf served as a postdoctoral fellow at the Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, working in the theoretical neuroscience group. After a year at the Institute for Cognitive Science at the University of Osnabrück, he started as an associate professor at the Technical University of Darmstadt in 2013. His work has been recognized with a European Research Council Consolidator Grant.