ORCID ID: 0000-0001-8308-8906
Web of Science ResearcherID: HKE-3072-2023
https://researchid.co/mariahedblom
Short biography
Originally a cognitive scientist, in 2018, I got a Dr. of Engineering in Theoretical Computer Science from Otto-von-Guericke University, Magdeburg (DE). My PhD research was an interdisciplinary investigation of cognitive micro-patterns called image schemas and the role they play in creative thinking. More than half of my doctoral studies were spent at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano (IT), where I also continued with a one-year postdoc focused on conceptual modelling. Between 2019 and 2020, I was engaged in a technology start-up project in Vienna on computational creativity for intelligent image manipulation. However, since I was missing the curious environment in academia, in 2021, I returned to a postdoctoral position at the Institute for Artificial Intelligence at Bremen University (DE), working on commonsense reasoning for cognitive robotics. Later the same year, I got a position as a tenured Assistant Professor at Jönköping AI Lab at Jönköping University (SE).
My main research interests concern the interdisciplinary aspect of cognitive building blocks that humans use to structure their experiences into meaningful compositions and how this can be formally modelled and simulated for the advancement of intelligent systems and cognitive robotics.
If you are interested, please get in touch! I am always open to new collaboration opportunities!
Download my CV
Hedblom_CV_2023
Awards and recognition
Spring 2024 – Nominated for JTH’s Pedagogical Development Group’s award in Excellence in Pedagogical Profession. Diploma