PhD and MSc Students

External examiner for PhD Students and habilitations

  • January 2025: Tiffany Matej Hrkalovic (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) on Understanding Partner Selection for Cooperation and Collaboration: Towards Supportive Hybrid Intelligence for Joint Undertakings.

  • December 5, 2024: Teng Li (University of Groningen) on Simulation Models of the Collective Consequences of Bounded Rationality in Opinion Formation in Networks.

  • October 1, 2024: Cor Steging (University of Groningen) on Designing Responsible Artificial Intelligence.

  • September 24, 2024: Lionel Newman (University of Groningen) on Tuning to Each Other: Interpersonal Synchronization in Brain and Behavior.

  • May 14, 2024: Lauren Seex (University of Groningen) on The Self-Organisation of Lemur Social Systems.

  • February 12, 2024: Heng Zheng (University of Groningen) on Arguments, Cases, and their Hardness.

  • December 14, 2023: Member of the committee for the Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches of Dr. Sabine Frittella, at INSA Centre Val de Loire, Laboratoire d'Informatique Fondamentale d'Orléans.

  • October 9, 2023: Ivar Kolvoort (University of Amsterdam) on Novel Perspectives on the Causal Mind: Theory, Experiments, and Modeling.

  • January 31, 2023: Bojan Simoski (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) on Untangling the Puzzle of Digital Health Interventions.

  • January 10, 2023: Teun Verstraaten (University of Groningen) on Asymptotic Behavior of Mallows Random Permutations.

  • June 2, 2022: Member of the three-person committee examining the Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches of Dr. Gabriella Pigozzi, at LAMSADE, Université Paris Dauphine.

  • May 4, 2022: Sven Storms (Tilburg University) on The Buridan-Volpin Derivation System; Properties and Justication.

  • January 20, 2022: Marijn Keijzer (University of Groningen) on Opinion Dynamics in Online Social Networks.

  • August 30, 2021: Merel Semeijn (University of Groningen) on Fiction and Common Ground.

  • June 18, 2021: Anthia Solaki (University of Amsterdam) on Logical Models for Bounded Reasoners.

  • April 30, 2021: Luka Mikec (University of Barcelona and University of Zagreb), On Logics and Semantics for Interpretability.

  • December 11, 2020: Niels Mourmans (University of Maastricht) on Beyond Belief: On Reasoning in Psychological Games.

  • September 11, 2020: Josje Lodder (Open University, Heerlen) on The Design and Use of Tools for Teaching Logic.

  • August 28, 2020: Godliver Owomugisha (University of Groningen) on Computational Intelligence and Modeling of Crop Disease Data in Africa.

  • May 4, 2020: Ot de Wiljes (University of Groningen) on From Skin to Brain: Modelling a Whole-Body Scenario of Nervous System Origin.

  • March 22, 2019: Irina Polyanskaya (University of Roskilde) on Second-Order False Belief Reasoning by Children with Autism: A Correlation and Training Study.
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  • October 4, 2018: Maria Otworowska (Radboud University Nijmegen) on Computational Demons of an Adaptive Brain.

  • December 5, 2017: Valentin Lecheval (double degree, University of Groningen and University of Toulouse) on Experimental Analysis and Modelling of the Behavioural Interactions Underlying the Coordination of Collective Motion and the Propagation of Information in Fish Schools.

  • October 5, 2017: Margreet Vogelzang (University of Groningen) on Reference and Cognition: Experimental and Computational Cognitive Modeling Studies on Reference Processing in Dutch and Italian.

  • September 21, 2017: Yanjun Li (RuG) on Knowing What to Do.

  • December 16, 2016: Paula Henk (University of Amsterdam) on Nonstandard Provability for Peano Arithmetic: A Modal Perspective

  • October 26, 2016: Carina Pals (University of Groningen / UMCG) on Listening Effort, the Hidden Costs and Benefits of Cochlear Implants

  • June 22, 2016: Member of the three-person committee examining the Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches of Dr. Emiliano Lorini, at IRIT, Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse on Cognitive Agents in Interaction: A Formal Approach

  • February 18, 2016: Franziska Köder (University of Groningen) on Between Direct and Indirect Speech: The Acquisition of Pronouns in Reported Speech

  • November 5, 2015: Mark Blokpoel (Radboud University Nijmegen) on Understanding Understanding: A Computational-level Perspective

  • October 7, 2015: Marie Devaine (Paris) on Computational Mechanisms of Theory of Mind

  • February 2, 2015: 2015: Karolina Krzyzanowska (University of Groningen) on Between “If” and “Then”: Towards an Empirically Informed Philosophy of Conditionals

  • December 11, 2014: Bouke Kuijer (University of Groningen) on Expressivity of Logics of Knowledge and Action

  • September 2, 2014: Arjen Stolk (Radboud University Nijmegen) On the Generation of Shared Symbols. Member of the ‘cum laude’ committee.

  • May 21, 2013: Eric Kok (University of Utrecht) on Multi-Agent Deliberation.

  • January 2013: Floor Sietsma (University of Amsterdam) on Logics of Communication and Knowledge. At 20 years of age, Floor Sietsma is the youngest person ever to defend a PhD thesis in the Netherlands.

  • April 20, 2012: Katja Mehlhorn (University of Groningen) on Cognitive Models of Decision Making: Why Precision Matters.

  • November 2, 2011: Maaike Harbers (Utrecht University) on Explaining Agent Behavior in Virtual Training.

  • June 20, 2011: Pablo Seban (University of Toulouse) on Who May Say What? Thoughts on Objectivity, Group Ability, and Permission in Dynamic Epistemic Logic.

  • December 17, 2010: Nina Gierasimczuk (University of Amsterdam) on Knowing one’s Limits: Logical Analysis of Inductive Inference.

  • April 27, 2010: Bas Steunebrink (Utrecht University) on The logical Structure of Emotions.

  • March, 9 2010: Jonathan Zvesper (University of Amsterdam) on Playing with Information.

  • October 29, 2009: Johan Kwisthout (Utrecht University) on The Computational Complexity of Probabilistic Networks.

  • September 17, 2007: Davide Grossi (Utrecht University) on Designing Invisible Handcuffs: Formal Investigations in Institutions and Organizations for Multi-agent Systems.

  • April 12, 2007 at University of Siena, Italy:
    - Emiliano Lorini on Variations on Intentional Themes: From the Generation of an Intention to the Execution of an Intentional Action;
    - Sara Congiu on Investigating the Early Perceptual Basis of Social Cognition: The Perception of Social and Physical Causality in Young Children with Autism;
    - Maria Garraffa on Impoverishment of Grammatical Features in a Non-fluent Aphasic Speaker: The Grammatical Nature of Minimal Structures.

  • November 30, 2006: Martin Helmhout (University of Groningen) on The Social Cognitive Actor.

  • January 12, 2004: Virginia Dignum (Utrecht University) on A Model for Organizational Interaction: Based on Agents, Founded in Logic.

  • June 19, 2003: Jan Albert van Laar (University of Groningen) on The Dialectic of Ambiguity: A Contribution to the Study of Argumentation.

  • November 8, 2002: Wieke de Vries (Utrecht University) on Agent Interaction: Abstract Approaches to Modelling, Programming and Verifying Multi-Agent Systems.

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