Szymon Wichary Principal Investigator Institute of Psychology, Jagiellonian University Google Scholar Profile
I received my M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in psychology from the Jagiellonian University. During my doctoral studies, I completed an internship at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin, and a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Basel. From 2006 to 2020, I worked at SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities, and between 2018 and 2020, as a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow, I conducted research at Leiden University. My research focuses on the role of personality, emotion, and stress in decision making, as well as on the biological bases of individual differences. In my work, I use computerized cognitive tasks, psychophysiological methods, and computational modeling of decision-making processes.
Krzysztof Bielski PhD student Doctoral School in the Social Sciences, Jagiellonian University
I am a PhD candidate at the International PhD Research Programme in Cognitive Neuroscience “Cognes”, supervised by dr. Szymon Wichary and dr. Magdalena Senderecka. My research concerns how changes in decision environment (urgency, delay in signaling) influence process of strategy selection and error monitoring in multi-attribute decision-making and cognitive control-related tasks. In my studies I use methods of functional magnetic resonance imaging.
Jakub Cacek PhD student Doctoral School in the Social Sciences, Jagiellonian University
I am a PhD student at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow. My research mainly focuses on cognitive flexibility and adaptability in decision-making.Additionally, I work as a research assistant in a project on radicalization and disinformation in Central Europe in the Cognitive Security Lab at the Charles University in Prague. Besides psychology, I am interested in data science.
I am a PhD researcher focusing on computational models of human decision-making and emotional arousal. My work combines methods from cognitive neuroscience, machine learning, and digital signal processing, with a background in the analysis of medical signals such as cardiac activity and eye-tracking data. In my research, I apply the Neural Engineering Framework (NEF) to build biologically inspired neural models that bridge cognitive theory and machine learning. Moreover, I am professionally involved in designing machine learning systems for drug discovery and in developing cloud-based solutions for automation and optimization of AI model development workflows.
Christiana Nika PhD student Doctoral School in the Social Sciences, Jagiellonian University
My name is Christiana Nika (MSc), and I am a PhD student at the COGNES Doctoral Programme, as well as a MSCA Doctoral Fellow at the Horizon-funded "Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Politics of Adolescence and Democracy" (IP-PAD) Project. My interests lie on the intersection of political and social psychology, focusing on political engagement and democratization effects, and utilizing both survey and computational approaches. Currently, my research project involves two research streams, both intended to study the psychology behind political engagement. One stream examines how influences like social media and age stereotypes shape adolescents' political engagement today. The other uses computational text analysis to trace psychological indicators of political engagement through cultural texts over time, particularly during periods of democratic breakdown or consolidation, when traditional survey data are unavailable.
Magdalena Witkowska PhD student Doctoral School in the Social Sciences, Jagiellonian University
I am a neurologist from the Jagiellonian University Medical College and PhD student at the Doctoral School of Social Sciences on the COGNES programme. My field of specialization is movement disorders and clinical neurology. My research focus on Parkinson’s disease, particularly studying non-motor symptoms, response inhibition and decision-making. I apply different modalities of brain stimulation such as – Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) and Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS).
Wiktor Zieliński PhD student Doctoral School in the Social Sciences, Jagiellonian University
I am a PhD student at the Doctoral School in the Social Sciences at Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland. I obtained my MA in Psychology from Jagiellonian University, where I also work as a research assistant on the project “Non-Symbolic and Symbolic Numerical Representations, Cognitive Abilities, and Mathematical Achievement in Preschoolers and Early School-Aged Children.” In my doctoral research, I investigate numerical information processing strategies using eye-tracking and pupillometry. I am also involved in research on cognitive nocebo effects related to short video app exposure. My scientific interests include numerical cognition, numerical information extraction strategies, attention, placebo and nocebo mechanisms, and the psychophysiological correlates of cognitive processes.
Collaborators
Magdalena Senderecka, PhD (Centre for Cognitive Science, Jagiellonian University)
Anna Broniec-Wójcik, PhD Engineer (Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Atomatics, Computer Science and Biomedical Engineering)
Małgorzata Dec-Ćwiek, PhD, MD (Laboratory of Nervous System Diseases Rehabilitation, Collegium Medicum JU)
Prof. Michał Wierzchoń (Institute od Psychology, Center for Brain Research, JU)
Monika Szczygieł, PhD (Institute od Psychology, Jagiellonian University)
Ewa Szumowska, PhD (Institute od Psychology, Jagiellonian University)
Wiktor Więcławski (Institute od Psychology, Jagiellonian University)
