University of Ljubljana
ACTIVE MEMBERS:

URBAN KORDEŠ
is professor of cognitive science and frst-person research at the University of Ljubljana where he is currently heading the Middle European interdisciplinary master programme in Cognitive Science at the University of Ljubljana and the Center for Cognitive Science. He holds a bachelor’s degree in mathematical physics and a doctorate in philosophy of cognitive science. His research interests include in-depth empirical phenomenological research, neurophenomenology, second-order cybernetics, collaborative knowledge creation, as well as epistemic and methodological issues in the research of non-trivial systems. Urban believes that training in the skill of reflection and subsequent first-person reporting should become one of the essential cognitive science research techniques. Mail: urban.kordes@pef.uni-lj.si

VIKTORIJA LIPIČ
is a PhD student at the Department of Philosophy at the University of Ljubljana. She holds a MSc in Cognitive Science (The Middle European interdisciplinary master programme in Cognitive Science at the University of Ljubljana) and a bachelor’s degree in Biopsychology (Faculty of Mathematics, Natural Sciences and Information Technologies at the University of Primorska). Her current research focuses on first-person inquiry, phenomenology, and the investigation of experiential phenomena usually found on the periphery of awareness.

JAŠA ČERNE
is a cognitive scientist, working as an assistant at The Middle European interdisciplinary master's programme in Cognitive Science at the University of Ljubljana. He holds a bachelor's degree in Computer Science and a MSc in Cognitive Science. His research interests include first-person research and neurophenomenology. Currently, his focus lies on studying the neurophenomenology of memory and group dynamics. Mail: jasa.cerne@pef.uni-lj.si


MAŠA REBERNIK
is currently working on obtaining her MSc at the Middle European interdisciplinary master's programme in Cognitive Science at the University of Ljubljana. Although her background is in linguistics, her interest shifted to first-person research and phenomenology during the course of her studies. Her current research focus is the phenomenology of decision making in naturalistic settings.



TOMA STRLE
is assistant professor of philosophy and cognitive science at the University of Ljubljana where he is teaching within the Middle European interdisciplinary master programme in Cognitive Science. He holds a bachelor’s degree in philosophy and a doctorate in philosophy of cognitive science. His research interests include decision-making, particularly how we experience it and how it unfolds in everyday-life situations, neurophenomenology, embodied and enactive cognition, and self-reference within cognitive systems.



ALUMNI:

EMA DEMŠAR
is a cognitive scientist and former assistant at the the Middle European interdisciplinary master's programme in Cognitive Science at the University of Ljubljana and researcher at the Center for Cognitive Science. Her research interests span the areas of first-person research, neurophenomenology, phenomenology of psychopathology, philosophy of cognitive science, and critical neuroscience. Her current work focuses on empirical research into lived experience and the study of epistemological and methodological challenges encountered in such research within the context of cognitive science.

FLORIAN KLAUSER
has obtained a bachelor's degree in linguistics, and a MSc from the Middle European interdisciplinary master programme in Cognitive Science at the University of Ljubljana, where he continues as a PhD student at the Department of Philosophy at the University of Ljubljana and junior researcher at the Center for Cognitive Science. His research focus is on first-person research, specifically on the experience of belief and knowledge enaction.


ALEŠ OBLAK
is currently working on his master's thesis within The Middle European interdisciplinary master's programme in Cognitive Science at the University of Ljubljana. His background is in linguistics, but now he is focusing on the phenomenology of memory, specifically on the experiential structure of mnemonic representations in working memory. His main interests are neurophenomenology, epistemology, philosophy of science , and research methodologies.