Vici grant for Verbrugge

The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) has awarded a Vici grant to Prof. Rineke Verbrugge (Artificial Intelligence) of the Faculty of Science and Engineering (formerly known as the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences), University of Groningen. Vici grants are intended for senior researchers who have demonstrated the ability to successfully develop their own innovative lines of research and to function as a coach to young researchers.

Prof L.C. (Rineke) Verbrugge (Artificial Intelligence) received the Vici grant for:

Reasoning about how others think
If you want to cooperate or negotiate effectively, you must think about what your partner knows and wants. But how exactly do people reason about other people’s knowledge and intentions? This is investigated by means of logic and methods of cognitive science, resulting in a decision-supporting computer system that allows people and software programs to work in collaboration.
Verbrugge was appointed University Reader in Logic and Cognition on 1 December 2008. She is team leader of the Multi-agent Systems Group of the Institute of Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Engineering.  

She studied at the University of Amsterdam, where she also gained her PhD. She then became a postdoc researcher in Prague and Gothenburg and a visiting assistant professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), US. From 1995 to 1997 she worked as a university lecturer at VU University Amsterdam, and in late 1997 she was appointed university lecturer at the University of Groningen. Her homepage: http://www.ai.rug.nl/~rineke/.