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[Anna L. Lange](https://adapt.informatik.hu-berlin.de/vvh/) obtained her Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics with Psychology from Queen Mary University of London. She further pursued her academic journey by completing a Master of Science degree in Computational Neuroscience at the Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience Berlin. During her Master’s program, Anna actively engaged in research at Charite-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, where her work revolved around investigating Human-Robot Interactions using functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI). In parallel, she also contributed to the development of neural networks inspired by human psychology for Robot-Robot Interactions at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. She is currently a Ph.D. student in Adaptive Systems group at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Her current research revolves around enhancing adaptive learning and teaching strategies in robots during social interactions. She achieves this by creating adaptive neural networks grounded in the principles of human psychology. ![ ](./assets/kirtay.png width="210px" align=left) [Assist. Prof. Murat Kirtay](http://www.crossvalidate.me/) received a Ph.D. degree in BioRobotics from the BioRobotics Institute of the Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna (Pisa) in 2019. He was a postdoctoral researcher at Adaptive Systems Group at Humboldt-Universitat zu Berlin in Germany, where he conducted interdisciplinary research at the intersection of robotics, neuroscience, and psychology. He is currently an assistant professor at the Department of Cognitive Science and Artificial Intelligence at Tilburg University. He leads Cognitive Developmental Robotics (CoDeRs) group and co-direct AI for Robotics Laboratory (AIR-LAB). His research interests are Humanoid Robotics, Computational Neuroscience, Cognitive Systems, and Machine Learning. ![ ](./assets/erhan.png width="210px" align=left) [Prof. Erhan Oztop](https://robotics.ozyegin.edu.tr/members/erhan-oztop) earned his Ph.D. at the University of Southern California in 2002. In the same year, he joined the Computational Neuroscience Laboratories at the Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International, (ATR) in Japan. There he worked as a researcher and later a senior research and group leader where he also served as vice department head for two research groups and held visiting associate professor position at Osaka University (2002-2011). Currently, he is a specially appointed professor at Osaka University in the Symbiotic Intelligent Systems Research Center (SISREC) of the Institute for Open and Transdisciplinary Research Initiatives (OTRI). He is also affiliated with the Computer Science Department at Ozyegin University, Istanbul. His research involves computational study of intelligent behavior, human-in-the loop systems, computational neuroscience, machine learning, cognitive and developmental robotics. ![ ](./assets/verena.png width="210px" align=left)
[Prof. Verena V. Hafner](https://adapt.informatik.hu-berlin.de/vvh/) is head of the Adaptive Systems Group at Humboldt-Universitat zu Berlin in Germany. Before moving to Berlin, she worked as an associate researcher in the Developmental Robotics Group at Sony Computer Science Labs in Paris, France. She is part of the Programme Committee of the DFG Priority Programme The Active Self (SPP 2134) and PI in the DFG Cluster of Excellence “Science of Intelligence”. Her research interests include sensorimotor interaction and learning, joint attention, internal models, and exploration strategies.