Dominik Straub
I am a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow in the Computational and Biological Learning lab at the University of Cambridge, working with Máté Lengyel. Prior to that, I completed my PhD with Constantin Rothkopf at the Centre for Cognitive Science, TU Darmstadt.
My work is focused on probabilistic models of perception and action in sequential tasks. I am interested in understanding how perceptual uncertainty, task goals, and the learning of subjective internal models interact. To this end, I develop and apply computational modeling techniques including inverse optimal control and Bayesian inference.
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| Mar 12, 2026 | I will be at Cosyne 2026 next week presenting some new work on “Simultaneous sensorimotor and contextual inference”. Looking forward to seeing many familiar and new faces in Lisbon and Cascais! |
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| Feb 26, 2026 | New preprint “Tactile suppression during movement as optimal integration of somatosensory feedback across time” on bioRxiv! |
| May 01, 2025 | I just joined the Computational and Biological Learning Lab at the University of Cambridge. |
| Mar 06, 2025 | I successfully defended my PhD thesis Inverse normative modeling of continuous perception and action with distinction! |
| Oct 31, 2024 | My shared first-author paper with Tobias Niehues “Inverse decision-making using neural amortized Bayesian actors” has been accepted at the International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) 2025. Preprint available! |