Benedikt Wirth is a Senior Researcher at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence GmbH (DFKI) in Saarbrücken, Germany. He holds a master’s degree in psychology (University of Bamberg, 2014), a PhD in psychology (Saarland University, 2018) and a master’s degree in data science (Albstadt-Sigmaringen University, 2024). Before joining DFKI in 2023, Benedikt worked as a post-doctoral researcher at the Cognition & Action Lab at Saarland University.

Research Interests: Benedikt is interested in various aspects of cognition and emotion both in natural (i.e., human) and artificial (i.e., deep neural networks) intelligence such as face recognition, visual attention, and social processing.

In the group: Benedikt is responsible for projects thematically located at the intersection of AI and psychology/psychiatry. These projects include digital phenotyping of psychiatric disorders based on patient-therapist interactions, prediction and prevention of post-operative mental illness, and emotion recognition from EEG signals.

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