Max Louwerse

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About Max Louwerse

Prof. dr. Max M. Louwerse is author of the popular science books "Understanding Artificial Minds through Human Minds: The Psychology of AI"(2025) and "Keeping those Words in Mind: How Language Creates Meaning"(2021). He is Professor of Cognitive Psychology and Artificial Intelligence at Tilburg University, and Professor by Special Appointment and BISS Principal Investigator at Maastricht University, the Netherlands. He is founder and scientific director of the DAF technology Lab, a cutting-edge virtual reality lab including two CAVE systems each equipped with 44 speakers for fully immersive educational, training, and research experiences. His work focuses on human and artificial minds. Louwerse published over 200 articles in journals, proceedings, and books in cognitive science, computational linguistics, and psycholinguistics, educational psychology and educational technologies. Louwerse served as principal investigator, co-principal investigator, and senior researcher on projects acquiring over $40 million in both the United States and the Netherlands on research projects often including corporate partners. His current research projects focus on virtual reality, embodied conversational agents, learning analytics, and language statistics. He is a frequently asked speaker for both academic and non-academic audiences. For more information, please see: maxlouwerse.com