PERSONAL INFORMATION

Name	Leonard Elia van Dyck
Current position	Labmanager of the Method Unit EEG, Centre for Cognitive Neuroscience (CCNS), University of Salzburg
Address	Hellbrunnerstraße 34 5020 Salzburg Austria leonard.vandyck[at]plus.ac.at
Web page	www.sleepscience.at
Date of birth	9th October 1997
Nationality	German

EDUCATION

since October 2020	Master of Science in Psychology (Specialization Cognitive Neuroscience), University of Salzburg (Thesis: “Unraveling Top-Down and Bottom-Up Processes in Theory of Mind with Layer fMRI”, PIs: Prof. Dr. Mario Braun & Ass.-Prof. Dr. Martin Kronbichler)
October 2017 – July 2020	Bachelor of Science in Psychology, University of Salzburg (Thesis: “Seeing Eye-to-Eye? A Comparison of Object Recognition Performance in Humans and Deep Convolutional Neural Networks under Image Manipulation”, PI: Dipl.-Ing. Dr. Walter Gruber)
June 2016	High School Diploma (with Distinction), Chiemgau-Gymnasium Traunstein, Germany

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

since October 2020	Labmanager of the Method Unit EEG, Centre for Cognitive Neuroscience (CCNS), University of Salzburg
since March 2021	Teaching Assistant, Bachelor’s seminar Artificial Intelligence, Department of Psychology, University of Salzburg (Project: „Comparing Humans and Deep Convolutional Neural Networks in Object Recognition“, PI: Dipl.-Ing. Dr. Walter Roland Gruber)
since January 2021	Researcher, Comparative Vision Group, Department of Psychology, University of Salzburg
March 2020 – July 2020	Research Assistant, Laboratory for Sleep and Consciousness Research, Department of Psychology, University of Salzburg (Project: „How SMART is it to go to bed with a PHONE?“, PI: Ass.-Prof. Dr. Kerstin Hödlmoser)

INTERNSHIPS & SUMMER SCHOOLS

July 2020	Neuromatch Academy – online summer school for computational neuroscience (observer track)
April 2019 – July 2019	Research Internship with Prof. Dr. Katherine Hertlein (University of Nevada, Las Vegas), Department of Psychology, University of Salzburg

GRANTS & AWARDS

June 2022	ECVP22 Grant, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition, and Behaviour
June 2016	Biology Future Prize, Stiftung Natur Mensch Kultur

PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS

2021	van Dyck, L. E., Kwitt, R., Denzler, S. J., & Gruber, W. R. (2021). Comparing Object Recognition in Humans and Deep Convolutional Neural Networks – An Eye Tracking Study, Frontiers in Neuroscience, 15. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2021.750639
2020	Hertlein, K. M., & van Dyck, L. E. (2020). Predicting engagement in electronic surveillance in romantic relationships. Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking, 23(9), 604-610. https://doi.org/10.1089/cyber.2019.0424

PREPRINTS

2022	van Dyck, L. E., Denzler, S. J., & Gruber, W. R. (2022). Guiding Visual Attention in Deep Convolutional Neural Networks Based on Human Eye Movements. arXiv preprint (In Review at Frontiers in Neuroscience). https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2206.10587
2020	van Dyck, L. E. & Gruber, W. R. (2020). Seeing Eye-to-Eye? A Comparison of Object Recognition Performance in Humans and Deep Convolutional Neural Networks under Image Manipulation. arXiv preprint. (Bachelor’s thesis). https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2007.06294

POSTER PRESENTATIONS (ACCEPTED)

2022	van Dyck, L. E., Denzler, S. J., & Gruber, W. R. (2022). Analyzing and Increasing the Similarity of Humans and Deep Convolutional Neural Networks in Object Recognition. Poster presentation at the European Conference on Visual Perception (ECVP), Nijmegen, The Netherlands, August 28th – September 1st 2022.
2022	van Dyck, L. E., Denzler, S. J., Schöllkopf, C. P., & Gruber, W. R. (2022). Spatial Similarities between Human Eye Movements and Deep Convolutional Neural Network Saliency Maps across Time. Poster presentation at the Salzburg Annual Mind and Brain Conference (SAMBA), Salzburg, Austria, July 14th – 15th 2022.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

– Visual perception in the human brain and deep neural networks
– Neural processes of social cognition and theory of mind
– Oscillatory brain activity