Project Team

We are an interdisciplinary, scientific team with diverse backgrounds in the psychology of human movement, social cognitive neuroscience and human movement science/biomechanics as well as computer science. In addition, our team is supported by student assistants from sports science and psychology.

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Univ.-Prof. Dr. Rouwen Cañal Bruland  

Rouwen Cañal Bruland

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Project Leader

Email: rouwen.canal.bruland@uni-jena.de

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"It is a privilege and immensely enjoyable to work together with international and interdisciplinary team members who all enthusiastically share the joint goal to navigate anticipation research to new frontiers."

Johannes Keck 

Johannes Keck

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(Almost) Postdoc

Email: johannes.keck@uni-jena.de

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"Social interactions drive our species, yet their complexity makes them challenging to study. This project fascinates me for its methodological and conceptual challenges—understanding human-to-human interactions and translating them into real-time, immersive human-to-avatar interactions. By leveraging machine learning, VR, and AR, we can explore, test, and shape social dynamics, advancing human-robot interaction, education, therapy and many more, and generally, deepening our understanding of what it means to be in a social interaction."

  

Dr. Kazuyuki Sato 

Kazuyuki Sato

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Postdoc

Email: kazuyuki.sato@uni-jena.de

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"This project aims to overcome the critical challenges highlighted by many previous studies, propelling Human Movement Science into a new stage. As a researcher, I am excited about the opportunity to make significant academic and practical contributions!"

Vicenzo Abichequer Sangalli

Vincenzo

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Researcher/ Computer Scientist

 

Sabine Sorge

Sabine Sorge

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 Lukas Kanter

Lukas Kanter

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Student Research Assistant

Email: lukas.kanter@uni-jena.de

 

"In addition to researching the kinematic information that people use to predict the behaviour of others in social interactions and the scientific exchange in an interdisciplinary and international team, I am particularly enthusiastic about the methodical approach in the project."

Georg Lindenberger 

Georg Lindenberger

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Student Research Assistant

Email: georg.lindenberger@uni-jena.de

 

"What excites me about the project is working together with a young and dedicated team, taking the time to explore and play around with different ideas, and finding innovative ways to use the new technology to enhance ecological validity in cognitive psychology."

Miriam Meuser 

Miriam Meuser

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Research Assistant

Email: miriam.meuser@uni-jena.de

 

"What excites me about the project is the interplay of interdisciplinary research, innovative VR technology and experimental methodology, and the resulting (new) perspectives on anticipatory processes in social interactions."