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Conrad Blau

Doctoral Candidate

Academic Education

Since 2025 Doctoral candidate, Max Planck School of Cognition, Leipzig, Germany Lab rotations in the orientation phase: Christian Doeller, Ralph Hertwig, Carsten Finke.
2022 - 2025 Master of Science in Mind & Brain, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany.
2018 - 2021 Bachelor of Science in Cognitive Science, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA, United States.
2018 - 2021 Bachelor of Arts in Intensive Psychology, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA, United States.

Research Experience

2024 - 2025 Graduate Lab Intern, Cognitive Neurology Lab (Prof. Carsten Finke) Charité Universitätsmedizin, Berlin, Germany.
2024 - 2025 Graduate Research Roaming Assistant, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Adaptive Rationality Center (Prof. Ralph Hertwig), Berlin, Germany.
2023 - 2024 Graduate Lab Intern, Active Perception and Cognition (Prof. Martin Rolfs), Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany.
2022 - 2024 Graduate Research Assistant, Cluster of Excellence Science of Intelligence (Project 01), Technische Universität Berlin (TUB), Germany. 

Scholarships

2019 - 2021 Symons, Williams Scholarship for Academic Excellence, University of California, Santa Cruz. 
2018 Students with an Impact Scholarship, University of California, Santa Cruz.

Publications

Eagle, T., Blau, C., Bales, S., Desai, N., Li, V., & Whittaker, S. (2022). “I don’t know what you mean by I am anxious'”: a new method for evaluating conversational agent responses to standardized mental health inputs for anxiety and depression. ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems (TiiS), 12(2), 1-23.

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