Wiktor Rorot
University of Warsaw
wiktor.rorot.research@gmail.com
ORCID: 0000-0003-1867-1091

Areas of Specialization

Digital Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Cognitive Science (incl. Neuroscience), Philosophy of Biology

Areas of Competence

General Philosophy of Science, History of Cognitive Science, Philosophy of Mind, Computational Modelling of Cognitive Processes, Methodology of Psychology

Education

PhD Student, Philosophy and Psychology
Interdisciplinary Doctoral School, University of Warsaw
2020–present (expected graduation: 2025)

M.Sc., Cognitive Science
University of Warsaw, 2018–2020 (graduated 2023)

B.A., Philosophy
University of Warsaw, 2014–2018 (graduated with honours)

B.A., Cognitive Science
University of Warsaw, 2014–2017 (graduated with honours)

Academic Appointments

Assistant (Asystent)
Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences
2023–2026

Writing-Up Fellow
Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research, Austria
2024–2025

Researcher
University of Warsaw
2019–2024

Grants & Awards

Preludium Grant (Principal Investigator)
“Investigation of the use of the concept ‘communication’ in biology and cognitive sciences”
National Science Center, Poland (176,936 PLN) | 2023–2026

Diamond Grant (Principal Investigator)
“Mechanisms of space representation: A predictive processing approach”
Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education (180,000 PLN) | 2019–2024

Scholarship for Outstanding Young Researchers
Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education | 2024–2027

START Scholarship
Foundation for Polish Science | 2024

Research Visits

Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research, Austria
Writing-Up Fellow | Oct 2024–Mar 2025

Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies, CNR, Italy
Visiting Scientist (supervisors: Dr. Luca Tummolini, Dr. Francesco Mannella) | Mar 2024 & Nov 2022

The Pence Lab, Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium
Visiting Scientist (supervisor: Prof. Charles Pence) | May 2023

The Levin Lab, Tufts University, USA
Visiting Scientist (supervisor: Prof. Michael Levin) | Jun–Dec 2022

Cognitive Robotics Lab, University of Manchester, UK
Visiting Research Student (supervisor: Prof. Angelo Cangelosi) | Mar 2022

Diverse Intelligences Summer Institute, University of St Andrews, UK
Fellow | Jul 2019, Jun–Jul 2021

Teaching

Experimental Psychology (tutorial)
1st year undergraduate, Cognitive Science program, University of Warsaw | 2022–2024

Cognitive Processes Modeling I & II (lectures and tutorials)
1st year Master’s, Cognitive Science program, University of Warsaw | 2022–2024

Research Project Supervision
Bachelor’s and Master’s students, Cognitive Science program, University of Warsaw | 2023–2024

Selected Conference Presentations (Refereed)

“Looking for keys to the brain: Keying-up in neuroscience”
5th International Conference of the German Society for Philosophy of Science, Erlangen, Germany | Mar 2025

“Concepts & texts in the practice of life science” (poster)
Conference “Philosophy of Science: Past, Present & Future”, Minnesota, USA | Oct 2024

“Rethinking Material Agency: Bioelectricity as a Model of Causation” (with U. Laukaitytė)
British Society for the Philosophy of Science Annual Conference, York, UK | Jul 2024

“Distributional Semantics in Digital Philosophy of Science” (with M. Miłkowski)
International Society for the History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Biology, Toronto, Canada | Jul 2023

“Counting on the Cilia: Cybernetics, Morphological Computation, and Computational Enactivism”
4th International Conference of the German Society for Philosophy of Science, Berlin, Germany | Aug 2022

Service & Engagement

Co-organizer and Coordinator
Summer School “School of Ideas in Neuroscience”, Nencki Institute & University of Warsaw | 2022–2025

PhD Student Representative
Didactic Council for Cognitive Science Programmes, University of Warsaw | 2023–2024

Co-organizer
5th International Conference on Interactivity, Language & Cognition, University of Warsaw | Sep 2021

Professional Memberships

• Centre for Philosophical Research (Member of the Board 2021–2024, Supervision Committee 2024–2027)
• Cognitive Science Society
• British Society for Philosophy of Science
• International Society for the History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Biology
• Italian Association for Cognitive Science

Skills

Programming: Python (numpy, scipy, pytorch, pandas, matplotlib, nltk, spaCy, gensim), Bash, LaTeX; R, Matlab, HTML/CSS

Data Analysis: Machine learning, natural language processing, neural networks, statistical analysis

Languages: Polish (native), English (proficient), French (advanced, DELF B2), German (communicative, A2)