People who were PhD students at the ACES
| Mia Karabegović got her PhD in 2021 with a thesis on reputation management. She then went to Paris as a post-doctoral researcher at the Institut Jean Nicod, ENS/PSL, and then at Sciences Po. |  |
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Helena Miton got her PhD in 2019 with a thesis on cultural evolution. She then went to the Santa Fe Institute as a postdoctoral fellow. She is currently an Assistant Professor at Stanford Graduate School of Business. As a PhD student, she won both the CEU award for Advanced Doctoral Students and the Best Dissertation Award (three awards annually). |
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Francesca Bonalumi got her PhD in 2022 with a thesis on commitment, that included work in developmental psychology and experimental philosophy. She is now collaborating with ACES and also working on deliberate ignorance at the iSearch lab at the Technical University in Munich as a post-doctoral researcher. Francesca won the Best Dissertation Award (three awards annually) |
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Angarika Deb got her PhD in 2025 with a thesis on fairness judgments, gender inequalities and distribution of labour in the household. She was a SMASH doctoral researcher. She is now a post-doc at the University of Graz and member of the Network Inequality and Fairness Group. |
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| Andras Molnár worked at CEU as a PhD student between 2012 and 2014. He then went to Carnegie Mellon University as a Fullbright fellow and obtained his PhD there. He then went on for a postdoc at the University of Chicago. He is an assistant professor at the University of Michigan. |  |
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Ákos Szegőfi got his PhD in 2025 with a thesis on epistemic trust and the spread of misinformation. He is now a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Pittsburgh. As a PhD student, Akos won the Award for Advanced Doctoral Students. |
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People who did a post-doc at the ACES
| Francesca Giardini was an early member of the research group and largely contributed to its establishement. She is now an Associate Professor in Sociology at the University of Groningen, The Netherlands. |  |
People who did their Master thesis at the ACES
| Tajda Hančič wrote her thesis on causal cognition and victim blaiming. She submitted her thesis in 2025. |  |
| Kutlay Usta wrote his thesis on motivated memory and bookkeeping. He completed a Master at Mei:CogSci in 2023. |  |
| Ženja Eremić completed a Master on Ecomic Policy in Global Markets at CEU and is now a Policy Assistant at Eurodiaconia. At the ACES, she worked on moral cognition and reciprocity. |
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| Liuba Voronina worked on coordination and Schelling salience. She completed a Master at Mei:CogSci, Ljubljana in 2023. |  |
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Aleksandra Knezevic is a philosopher and social anthropologist. She works on the relationship between science and society, science and values, science and democracy, academic/scientific freedom and social engagement and responsibilities of scientists and scientific communities – from an anthropological (descriptive) and philosophical (normative) perspective. She was a CEU master student, then a doctoral visiting students at the ACES. |
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| Tamás Gomori wrote his master thesis on the social ontology of Searle, Guala and one developped within the framework of the Free Energy Principle. He is completing his Master at Mei:Cogsci, University of Vienna. |  |
| Feride Belma Bumin completed her MA in Economics in 2021. She worked on commitment attribution. After the MA, she registered to the MA program in Psychology at ELTE. |  |
| Julius Tacha was a student at MeiCogSci (2017-2019), University of Vienna. He worked on plausible deniability. | 
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