Brent STRICKLAND

Brent Strickland obtained his PhD from the Yale psychology department in 2013, specializing in “fundamental” cognitive representations and biases, which are universal across the human species. He obtained his HDR at the ENS-Ulm in 2019, and oversees an active research group with masters, PhD, and postdoctoral collaborators. At ABS, he focuses on applied cognitive science, and the ways in which its methods, findings, and experts can improve our rapidly changing world, particularly in phenomena of scale. His work covers topics like social media and misinformation, digital workplaces, nudges for improved decision making, and environmental behaviors and policy attitudes. He has worked as a researcher across a number of institutions at the pre- and post-doctoral levels: Yale University, Georgia Tech University, Georgia State University, The University of South Carolina, the CNRS, Paris V, and the ENS-Ulm. He founded the “Experimental Philosophy” research group at the Institut Jean Nicod and co-founded the UM6P School of Collective Intelligence. He has taught courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels in the Cogmaster Program (ENS), The American University in Paris, Yale University, and the School of Collective Intelligence, UM6P. He currently organizes a regular remote weekly seminar on “Applied Cognitive Science”.