Improving intelligence assessment processes with decision science
Start date
06 September 2018End date
31 March 2020Funder
Team
Principal investigator

Dr Jonathan Nelson
Lecturer in Experimental Cognitive Psychology
Biography
I completed my PhD (2005) Cognitive Science at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), with a dissertation on Optimal Experimental Design as a Theory of Perceptual and Cognitive Information Acquisition [].
I did a postdoc (2005-2008) at the Salk Institute's Center for Neural Computation [http://cnl.salk.edu/] and UCSD's Computer Science and Engineering Department [].
I worked from 2008-2017 as a research scientist at the Center for Adaptive Behavior and Cognition, at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development [].
I am an affiliated researcher with the Berlin School of Mind and Brain [] at Humboldt University, where I occasionally teach PhD students about Cognitive Science.
I am also a guest researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development [].