Tobii user workshop at Leiden University

Speakers

Francesco Walker, PhD.

Assistant Professor Institute of Cognitive Psychology, Leiden University

Francesco Walker, born in Rome, Italy, has a bachelor’s degree in psychology from Rome University, and a Research Master degree in cognitive psychology from VU Amsterdam. Francesco took his PhD at University of Twente (NL). During his thesis work, he investigated human interactions with self-driving cars, focusing on issues of trust. Francesco has always been interested in applying objective scientific methods to real-life problems, and in explaining his findings to a broad range of audiences. In 2021 he won a position as Assistant Professor at Leiden University (NL), where he continues to investigate critical Human Factors challenges for automated driving technology and to perform research in art perception and neuroaesthetics, a topic which has always interested him. He is currently collaborating with one of the largest museums in the Netherlands to study and improve the experience of children and adults visiting the museum.



Joris van der Voet, PhD.

Associate professor at the Institute of Public Administration, Leiden University

Joris van der Voet is an Associate professor at the Institute of Public Administration, Leiden University. He studies how public managers bring about change to enhance effectiveness, adaptivity, and resilience of the public sector amidst a myriad of societal challenges, adverse performance, and declining financial resources. His research agenda informs public administration research and theory about managerial behavior in organizational change, cutback management, and innovation. His research agenda is also tightly coupled to prominent developments in public administration practice, including strategic reorientations to improve organizational performance, fiscal retrenchment following economic downturn, and large-scale governance decentralizations. Joris studies the behaviors of public managers that advance such reforms, mitigate negative effects, and make the intended benefits materialize in organizational practice



Amandine Lerusse, PhD.

Assistant Professor Institute Governance and Global Affairs, Leiden University

Amandine Lerusse is an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Public Administration, Leiden University. Her research examines, through experimental approaches, public officials’ (including politicians and public managers) decision-making behavior and preferences with regard to external service providers. Her research also focuses on public officials’ decision-making amidst negative performance.



Szilvia Biro, PhD.

Assistant Professor Institute for Education and Child Studies and Leiden Institute for Brain and Cognition, Leiden University

Szilvia Biro investigates how infants make sense of the complex social and physical world. She is doing research on the infants’ emerging ability to interpret others’ actions in terms of goals. In a large international collaboration, she investigates the origins of "Theory of mind”. Her current projects also explore how specialization in the infant brain develops for processing social information and she tries to uncover individual differences in neural and cognitive mechanisms underlying the evaluation of prosocial behaviors.



Giulia Vigna

Master of Education, Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, Leiden University

Giulia Vigna is a Research Master’s student in Education and Child Studies. She studied Primary Education (Teacher Training program) in Italy and she is now in the Netherlands to further investigate human development from a psychological and neuroscientific point of view.



Heleen de Lange

Student Assistant at Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, Leiden University

Heleen de Lange is a Research Master’s student in Child and Education Studies with “Applied Neuroscience” as profile. She is mostly interested in research about children’s development in the social and (neuro)cognitive domain.



Tom Roth, MSc.

Lecturer Environmental Biology and Animal Behaviour and Cognition, Utrecht University

Tom S. Roth is an expert in orangutan cognition, with a particular interest in mating and how it shapes cognition.



Niilo Valtakari

PhD. candidate, Experimental Psychology, Utrecht University

Niilo is a PhD candidate currently finishing up his dissertation at Experimental Psychology, Utrecht University. The focus of his research is on gaze and other nonverbal behavior in parent-infant interaction, using novel methods such as dual eye tracking and appearance-based gaze estimation.



Christine van Nooijen

PhD. candidate, Department of Psychology, Education and Child Studies at the Erasmus University

Christine van Nooijen is a PhD candidate in educational psychology in the Department of Psychology, Education and Child Studies at the Erasmus University in Rotterdam. Her research is centered on understanding and improving how experts teach visual problem-solving to novices in the social sciences. Methodologically, this involves capturing one-on-one learning interactions through dual eye-tracking, using wearable eye-tracking glasses.



Zsofia Pilz

Account Manager Medical and Scientific Research Segment, Tobii

Graduated in Linguistic and Literary Computing from the Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany. Also studied at Pannon Egyetem in Hungary and Åbo Akademi University in Finland. Worked with Eye Tracking and EEG as a researcher at TU Darmstadt. Now working as an Account Manager for Medical and Scientific Research at Tobii. 



Carsten Gondorf

Global Product Manager Software, Tobii

Graduated in Psychology, Linguistics, and Philosophy from the University of Freiburg, Germany. Several research posts at renowned institutes, e.g., MPI CBS, Leipzig, Germany, international research clusters at the University of Bremen, and TU Kaiserslautern, Germany, on Cognitive Psychology and Spatial Cognition. In total, more than 12 years of experience in research, application, sales, and software development in eye tracking and behavioral research in general.



Kirill Novikov

Research Scientist, Tobii

Research Scientist and member of the Multimodal Group at Tobii, where he supports researchers in their eye tracking journey by providing expert trainings and consultations on eye tracking methodology and analysis with a primary focus on Medical and Scientific research. He has a degree in Medical Physics with a specialization in Tomography and Radiologic imaging, with 11 years of experience in the Medical field. In total, over 15 years of experience in education, consultancy and engineering including several years of experience in eye tracking.



Iris Spruit

Event organizer

Iris Spruit is research technician at Leiden University, Faculty of Social and Behavioral Sciences. She supports Psychology and Child Studies researchers with experimental task building and the use of research equipment.