Prof. Constantin A. Rothkopf, PhD

Simons Collaboration on Ecological Neuroscience

Constantin Rothkopf is a full professor (W3) at the Institute of Psychology in the Department of Human Sciences with a secondary appointment in the Department of Computer Science at the Technical University of Darmstadt. He is the founding director of the Center for Cognitive Science and a founding member as well as a member of the executive board of the Hessian Center for Artificial Intelligence (hessian.AI). He is also a member of the board of directors of the Center for Mind, Brain and Behavior (CMBB). He is a member of the European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems (ELLIS), a faculty member of the ELLIS Unit Darmstadt, and a member of the DAAD Konrad Zuse Schools of Excellence in Artificial Intelligence (ELIZA). He is currently a co-speaker of the collaborative projects The Adaptive Mind and Whitebox. After obtaining a joint PhD in Brain & Cognitive Sciences and Computer Science at the Center for Visual Science at the University of Rochester, NY in 2009, he started a postdoc at the Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies (FIAS) working in the theoretical neuroscience group. In 2009 he started as a lecturer at the Goethe University, Frankfurt and from 2010 to 2012 he was the principal investigator of the “beliefs, representations, and actions group” at FIAS. After a year as a substitute professor at the Institute of Cognitive Science at the University Osnabrück, he started as an associate professor for “psychology of information processing” at the Institute of Psychology at the Technical University of Darmstadt in 2013. During the winter semester 2017 he was a visiting professor at the Department of Cognitive Science at the Central European University, Budapest. In 2022 he received an ERC Consolidator Grant from the European Research Council for his project ‘ACTOR’. During the summer semester 2023 he was a visiting professor at the Zuckerman Institute, Columbia University, New York, USA. In 2025 the collaborative project ‘Simons Collaboration on Ecological Neuroscience‘ and the two DFG Excellence Clusters “Reasonable Aritificial Intelligence” (RAI) and “The Adaptive Mind” (TAM), for which he is the TU Darmstadt speaker, have been approved for funding.