3 About us
3.1 Jan Derrfuss (module convenor)
Student office hour (teaching weeks only): Monday, 1-2pm in room LG43
Jan is a cognitive neuroscientist from Bamberg, Germany. He initially studied architecture in Dresden, quit after a year, then did an internship at the now closed Cotswold Community in Ashton Keynes, Wiltshire, before returning to Germany to study psychology in Landau in der Pfalz. He completed his PhD at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Leipzig and has been working at the University of Nottingham since 2013. His main research interests are cognitive control, working memory, and performance monitoring.
3.2 Jonathan Stirk
Student office hour (teaching weeks only): Tuesday, 1-2pm in room A14
Jonathan is a cognitive psychologist with interests in attention and emotion. He studied Combined Science (Psychology/Biology) at Leicester University, and after a period as a research assistant examining aspects of game theory, he completed a PhD looking at how virtual reality could be used to investigate spatial cognition. He has been an assistant professor at Nottingham for over 15 years!
3.3 The demonstrators
Demonstrators are PhD candidates with a background in Psychology. Together with the lecturers, demonstrators will answer your questions, give you feedback and mark your work. The autumn semester demonstrators are:
- Aditi Jain
- Andrew Stretton
- Aneta Dvorakova
- Hannah Wright
- Jacob Juty
- James Kennaway
- Lily Wilson
- Natasha Stevenson
- Patricia Radu
- Rebecca Flint
- Siavash Rakhtshah
- Tobias Meeks
You can find contact information for the demonstrators on Moodle in the section “Contact the lecturers and demonstrators”.