Stefan Herzog
Senior Research Scientist At Max Planck Institute For Human Development at Max Planck Institute for Human Development
Berlin, Germany
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Top SchoolStefan Herzog is a senior research scientist and head of the “Boosting Decision Making” research area at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development, combining psychology, AI, and computational social science to improve human and hybrid human–AI decision making. With a PhD in psychology from the University of Basel and over a decade of research experience, he studies interventions to strengthen resilience against misinformation, manipulation, and risks from generative AI. He bridges basic and applied work—publishing in top journals, advising policy, delivering international keynotes, and translating insights into practical systems for organizations and citizens. Known for interdisciplinary rigor and open, reproducible science, he leads efforts to ensure AI supports rather than erodes human competences. An underappreciated strength is his sustained focus on collective intelligence: designing team-level boosts that scale individual judgment gains to organizational and societal impact.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Psychologie, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Psychologie at Universität Basel
German, English, French
Github Skills (46)
r-package9
stan8
multilevel8
knitr8
statistical-models8
brms7
bayesian7
rmarkdown6
bayesian-inference6
jags5
markov5
development-environment5
mcmc5
rstudio5
sports-data5
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
stefanherzog/blogdown
Sep 2015 - Dec 2022
Contributions:117 commits, 4 PRs, 136 pushes in 7 years 4 months
stefanherzog/microtargeting_inoculation
Nov 2020 - Jun 2021
Contributions:1 release, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
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