Rate My Professor Daniel Feuerriegel

Dr Daniel Feuerriegel is a Lecturer in Psychology at the Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences within the Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences at the University of Melbourne. He serves as Principal Investigator of the Prediction and Decision-Making Laboratory, which investigates how prior knowledge and predictions guide perception and decision-making processes. The laboratory employs psychophysical experiments, electroencephalography (EEG), functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), computational modelling and machine learning techniques to examine predictive processes in the visual system, the effects of fulfilled or violated expectations, and adjustments in decision-making following surprising events.

Dr Feuerriegel completed his PhD at the University of South Australia under the supervision of Associate Professor Hannah Keage. He joined the University of Melbourne in 2017 as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow and was appointed Decision Science Research Fellow in June 2019. In 2021 he was awarded an Australian Research Council Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA) to support his research on decision-making following surprising events. His work has been published in journals including NeuroImage, Cortex, Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and Cognitive Psychology. Dr Feuerriegel leads collaborative projects on topics such as neural correlates of metacognition, perceptual change-of-mind decisions, and best practices for multivariate pattern analysis of EEG data. He contributes to the academic community through research supervision, laboratory leadership, and engagement with broader scientific discussions on perception and decision processes.