Guillermo Hidalgo Gadea

Guillermo Hidalgo Gadea

PhD Student in Psychology

Ruhr-University Bochum

About

Guillermo Hidalgo Gadea is a doctoral researcher of embodied cognition and animal behavior working with pigeons at the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience in Bochum. His research interests include comparative psychology, computational neuroethology and machine learning. He attained a M.Sc. at the University of Stirling working on numerical cognition with Chimpanzees, Lemurs and Psychology Students. He first moved from Spain to Germany to study Physics at the Technical University Dortmund and then changed his area of studies to Psychology at the University of Wuppertal were he attained his B.Sc. training machine learning models for microsleep detection in fatigued car drivers.

He has successfully applied frequentist and bayesian analysis methods as well as machine learning approaches, and now shares his acquired taste for exploratory data analysis as an independent Scientific and Statistical Consultant for businesses and students of all backgrounds.

Guillermo’s PhD project is currently funded by the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, DFG) Research Training Group Situated Cognition - grant number GRK-2185.

He is engaged to Simone Becker.

Interests
  • Embodied Cognition
  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Computational Neuroethology
  • Machine Learning
Education
  • PhD in Psychology, since 2020

    Ruhr-University Bochum

  • MSc in Psychological Research Methods, 2019

    University of Stirling

  • BSc in Psychology, 2017

    University of Wuppertal

  • Abitur German/Spanish, 2011

    Deutsche Schule Barcelona

Professional Development

Computational Neuroscience
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Rat Tickling Certification Course
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Deep Learning (Python)
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Python for Research
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Machine Learning (Matlab)
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Fundamentals in Neuroscience
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Probability and Statistics
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Philosophy of Cognitive Sciences
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Fitness Instructor B Certification
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