Michał Wierzchoń

Professor of Social Sciences at the Institute of Psychology, Jagiellonian University.
Founder of the C-Lab.
Head of the lab.

Professor of the Jagiellonian University, Director of the Centre for Brain Research, Jagiellonian University; Vice-Dean for the Scientific Affairs, Faculty of Philosophy, Jagiellonian University; Director of the International PhD Programme in Cognitive Neuroscience (CogNeS). Founder and the Head of Consciousness Lab (c-lab). Fellow of the Psychonomic Society. Elected member of the Committee of Psychology of the Polish Academy of Science (2020-2023). Past Director of the Institute of Psychology, Jagiellonian University (2016-2020), Past Member (2012-2017) and Past Deputy Chairman (2014-2017) of the Polish Young Academy, Polish Academy of Sciences. Past Secretary of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology Executive Committee (2010-2017) and past member of ESCoP Executive Committee (2015-2018). He worked as a visiting researcher at the CO3 Lab, Universite Libre de Bruxelles (2010-2011).

Research interest:

  • theories of consciousness,
  • visual awareness,
  • neural correlates of consciousness,
  • metacognitive awareness,
  • sensory substitution,
  • Video Quality of Experience.