Dr.
Brendan Balcerak Jackson
Managing Director
Brendan Balcerak Jackson is Managing Director of the Lamarr Institute at the University of Bonn.
Brendan Balcerak Jackson earned a PhD in analytic philosophy, with a focus on theoretical linguistics, from Cornell University (New York, USA). He worked for several years as a researcher and teacher in philosophy, linguistics, and logic at universities in the United States, Australia, and Germany, where he worked on topics ranging from natural language semantics and pragmatics to language comprehension and reasoning.
He is also an experienced research project manager. Before joining Lamarr, he managed interdisciplinary research projects and networks in the humanities and cognitive science, as well as in AI, robotics, and human-machine interaction.