Dr. Dominik Deffner

Forschungsschwerpunkte:
-    Kollektive Dynamiken und kulturelle Evolution
-    Kognitive Modellierung and Bayessche Statistik
-    Kausale Inferenz
-    Kulturvergleichende Methoden
-    (Collective) Foraging

Kurzvita:
Seit 2025 Qualifizierungsprofessor für Computational Modelling of Behaviour (W1, Tenure Track W2) am Fachbereich Psychologie der Philipps-Universität Marburg
2021 – 2024 Postdoc am Max-Planck-Institut für Bildungsforschung und Exzellenzcluster Science of Intelligence in Berlin
2018 – 2021 Promotion (Dr.rer.nat.) am Max-Planck-Institut für evolutionäre Anthropologie in Leipzig
2016 – 2017 MSc, University of St Andrews, UK, Evolutionäre und Vergleichende Psychologie
2012 – 2016 BSc, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Psychologie
2012 – 2016 BA, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Vergleichende Kultur- und Religionswissenschaft, Philosophie

Top 10 Publikationen:

- Deffner, D., Fedorova, N., Andrews, J. & McElreath, R. (2024). Bridging theory and data: A computational workflow for cultural evolution. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 121(48).

- Deffner, D., Mezey, D., Kahl, B., Schakowski, A., Romanczuk, P., Wu, C.M. & Kurvers, R.H.J.M. (2024). Collective incentives reduce over-exploitation of social information in unconstrained human groups. Nature Communications, 15(1), 2683.

- Tump*, A. N., Deffner*, D., Pleskac, T.J., Romanczuk, P., & Kurvers, R.H.J.M. (2024). A cognitive computational approach to social and collective decision-making. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 19(2), 538-551.

- Breen, A.J. & Deffner, D. (2024). Leading an urban invasion: risk-sensitive learning is a winning strategy. eLife, 12, RP89315.

- Mezey, D., Deffner, D., Kurvers, R.H.J.M. & Romanczuk, P. (2024). Visual social information use in collective foraging. PLOS Computational Biology, 20(5), e1012087.

- Deffner, D., Rohrer, J.M & McElreath, R. (2022). A causal framework for cross-cultural generalizability. Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science, 5(3).

- Deffner, D., Kandler, & Fogarty, L. (2022). Effective population size for culturally evolving traits. PLOS Computational Biology, 18(4).

- Deffner, D., & McElreath, R. (2022). When does selection favor learning from the old? Social Learning in age-structured populations. PLOS One, 17(4).

- Deffner, D., Kleinow, V. & McElreath, R. (2020). Dynamic Social Learning in Temporally and Spatially Variable Environments. Royal Society Open Science, 7(12), 200734.

- Clark*, A. D., Deffner*, D., Laland, K., Odling-Smee, J., & Endler, J. (2020). Niche construction affects the variability and strength of natural selection. The American Naturalist, 195(1), 16-30.

Für alle Publikationen, siehe mein Google Scholar Profil: https://scholar.google.de/citations?user=hqddLuwAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao