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TransAIR workshop
This week, the TransAIR workshop on cognitive architectures with the purpose to create new and exciting research collaborations is taking place. The organisers asked me to participate as a moderator to some of the invited speakers’ Q&A sessions as well … Continue reading
GSoC21
Invited by prof. Mark Turner to be a mentor at Red Hen Google Summer of Code 2021.
Post-doc position in Bremen
It has now been confirmed that in February I will be joining Prof. Beetz’s cognitive robotics group at Bremen University working in the EASE collaborative research centre and the Horizon 2020 project MUHAI.
Presentations and the (potential) revival of my academic career
A week ago I was invited to hold a talk at the Horizon 2020 project MUHAI’s kick-off meeting in Venice. My talk was called “What’s the meaning of this?” and concerned the role image schemas play in meaning formation for … Continue reading
Covid-19 and its consequences for junior academics
The Covid-19 pandemic is hitting hard in many layers of society with people losing their jobs and their income. For junior academics, the pandemic is hitting particularly hard despite these individuals having high-levels of education and unique expertise. Already under … Continue reading
It is now possible to order physical copies of my book: “Image Schemas and Concept Invention: Cognitive, Logical, and Linguistic Investigations” LINK
Springer publication
Happy to announce that my PhD thesis has been published in a polished form in Springer’s Cognitive Technologies series. https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783030473280
Abstract accepted to IACS4-2020
Our abstract: “The ontology of image schemas and the artificial mind” has been accepted for presentation at the IACS4-2020 held at the RWTH Aachen University, Germany, from July 2–4, 2020 (https://iacs4.signges.de/).
Presenting work at CONTEXT and TriCoLore
The paper Conceptual Puzzle Pieces is presented both at Context 2019, Trento, and at TriCoLore 2019, Bolzano.
Paper accepted at CONTEXT 19
Part of my disertation “Conceptual Puzzle Pieces: An image schema experiment on object conceptualisation” written together with Oliver Kutz, is to be presented and published in the proceedings at CONTEXT 2019, Trento, November 2019.