Micha Heilbron
Assistant professor. Cognitive AI; Computational cognitive (neuro)science
I am an Assistant Professor of Cognitive AI at the University of Amsterdam (UvA), based at Amsterdam Brain and Cognition (ABC). I work at the intersection of cognitive science and AI, primarily studying how brains and artificial systems understand language and make sense of the world.
Before coming to the UvA, I did a post-doc in the Predictive Brain Lab at the Donders Institute, and obtained a PhD at the Donders Institute and the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen (NL) under the supervision of Floris de Lange and Peter Hagoort, respectively. Before that I was trained in Amsterdam (UvA), London (UCL) and Paris (ENS & UPMC).
I am interested in supervising all kinds of projects. If you would like to work with me, please have a look at my Research page for directions and info.
news
| Nov 5, 2024 | I was appointed as a new member of the Amsterdam Young Academy |
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| Jul 17, 2024 | I was awarded an NWO Veni grant to study language comprehension in LLMs and humans |
| Jun 24, 2024 | I am teaching LLMs during the NeuroAI summerschool and the UvA de Groot LLM masterclass |
| Nov 6, 2023 | New general audience essay about AI out in The Dutch Review of Books (unpaywalled) |
| Oct 12, 2023 | New paper about modelling eye movements during reading out in Open Mind |
| Jun 21, 2023 | I received an Otto Hahn Medal Medal and the Otto Hahn Award from the Max Planck Society |
| May 19, 2023 | Two papers accepted to CCN 2023 – see you in Oxford! |
| Apr 4, 2023 | I accepted a position as Assistant Professor of Cognitive AI at the University of Amsterdam |
| Dec 27, 2022 | New paper on predictive processing in music perception out in eLife |
| Sep 26, 2022 | Short essay on the opportunities of AI for the study of the predictive brain out in TICS |
| Sep 13, 2022 | Article and interview about my research in national newspaper Trouw (unpaywalled) |