Project Team
Team of the Momentum project
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Rouwen Cañal Bruland
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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
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Email: johannes.keck@uni-jena.de
"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."
Kazuyuki Sato
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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!"
Sabine Sorge
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Lukas Kanter
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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
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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."
Nathalie Trefz
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Email: nathalie.trefz@uni-jena.de
"What excites me about this project is the opportunity to use an innovative paradigm to advance pioneering answers to the pressing questions of our time - such as how robots can support the care of an ageing society, how inclusive assistance systems can become even more helpful and how autonomous driving can be made safer. With VR, AR and machine learning, we are creating a completely new approach for researchers to find targeted solutions to these and other challenges."
Felix Stieglbauer
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Doctoral Candidate
E-Mail: felix.stieglbauer@uni-jena.de
"When it comes to my passion for computer science/game development, I am constantly looking for opportunities to meet and overcome new challenges. Especially when doing interdisciplinary research, I enjoy combining my expertise with that of people from other fields and working together towards a solution. As part of the Momentum project, I am in an environment where-with my skill set-I can contribute towards science and support the research of the entire team. This amazing team's willingness to learn from one another allows me to fulfill my role as an important team member, while also improving my own abilities based on my colleagues' feedback."
Former staff
- Miriam Meuser
- Vicenzo Abichequer Sangalli