Name
DEROY, Ophelia
Position and Affiliated Institution
Professor, Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich, Germany
Degree
Ph.D.
Education and Academic Employment
| Education | |
| 2008 | PhD, Institut Jean Nicod, Paris, France |
| Academic Employment | |
| 2010 | Post-doctoral fellowship, NYU University |
| 2011 – 2013 | Marie Curie fellowship, UK |
| 2013 – 2017 | Reader & associate director, Institute of Philosophy, University of London, UK |
| 2017 – present | Professor of Philosophy and Neuroscience, LMU, Munich & Associate researcher, Institute of Philosophy, University of London, UK. |
Research Topic
Cognitive science ; philosophy of mind
Fields of Research Interest
Perception ; Social Cognition ; Human-AI interactions
Academic Publications
- Deroy, O., Spence, C., & Noppeney, U. (2016). Metacognition in multisensory perception. Trends in cognitive sciences, 20(10), 736-747.
- Longin, L., & Deroy, O. (2022). Augmenting perception: How artificial intelligence transforms sensory substitution. Consciousness and Cognition, 99, 103280.
- Geiselmann, R., Tsourgianni, A., Deroy, O., & Harris, L. T. (2023). Interacting with agents without a mind: the case for artificial agents. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, 51, 101282.
- Deroy, O. (2023). Olfactory abstraction: a communicative and metacognitive account. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 378(1870), 20210369.
- Deroy, O. (2023). The ethics of terminology: Can we use human terms to describe AI?. Topoi, 42(3), 881-889.
Awards
- Neuroethics Prize 2025
