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Contributori pronti ad affrontare un ambito definito di ricerca, educativa o applicata e condividerlo pubblicamente su base regolare.

Borsa di studio

Un percorso di contributo continuo per ricercatori e professionisti impegnati nello sviluppo di lavori pubblici allineati con l'Active Inference.

I colleghi sviluppano ricerche, applicazioni o risorse pubbliche allineate con l'Istituto e l'Ecosistema, forniscono rapporti di avanzamento regolari e producono output che fanno progredire il campo rimanendo accessibili al pubblico.

Cosa fanno i Fellow

Fellows work on a defined project or area of focus — research, software, educational materials, ontology, applications, or ecosystem support — and report on their progress at regular intervals. Reporting is public: fellows share updates through the community newsletter, project meetings, or public posts.

These outputs accumulate into a body of work that is available to the entire Active Inference community and beyond.

Cosa richiede una fellowship

Fellowship requires a meaningful time commitment and a clear scope. Fellows are expected to make progress on their defined work, communicate regularly about that progress, and deliver results that are useful to others.

The specific requirements — reporting cadence, deliverables — are established between the fellow and the Institute at the start of the fellowship. The Research Fellow role is an unpaid, non-employee position with a default term of two years, possibly renewable.

Borsei di Ricerca Attuali

Il presente Research Fellows degli istituti, la data di inizio del loro incarico, il focus del progetto, ORCID iD e la loro descrizione della ricerca sono elencati nella tabella sottostante. L'elenco è generato dal registro dei membri dell'istituto, quindi riflette gli incarichi attuali piuttosto che uno stato fotografico fissato in forma scritta.

Chi dovrebbe candidarsi

Fellowship is suited for people who have already engaged with the Institute through volunteering, internship, or independent research and are ready to take on a larger, more sustained commitment. Prior experience with Active Inference is expected — fellows are contributors who can work with significant autonomy on a defined problem.

If you are new to the Institute, starting through volunteering or internship is the recommended path to fellowship.

Requisiti dell'applicazione

Un pacchetto di domanda completo per ricercatore prevede la conferma che il candidato ha letto e accettato i termini del programma Fellows; una proposta di ricerca da una a sei pagine (escluse le citazioni) con un abstract di 300 parole o meno, domande e obiettivi di ricerca, rilevanza, approccio, allineamento con la missione dell'Istituto, risultati attesi e cronologia; un CV aggiornato; da una a tre lettere di raccomandazione; e fino a cinque pubblicazioni o prodotti rappresentativi. I pacchetti completi e le domande vanno a blanket@activeinference.institute con [RICERCATORI] nell'oggetto.

Output e Registro Pubblico

Fellowship outputs are intended to be publicly useful. Papers, software repositories, educational course materials, ontology contributions, datasets, and project documentation all count as fellowship outputs.

The Institute supports fellows in making their work findable, citable, and reusable by the broader community. Published outputs are part of the permanent public record of the Institute's research and educational work.

Come diventare un Fellow

Fellowship begins with a conversation about your proposed work and how it aligns with Institute and Ecosystem goals. The fellows pathway page describes the current process for expressing interest and proposing a fellowship scope.

Most fellowships develop from existing participation — active contributors who want to formalize and deepen their engagement.

Termi di Fellowship

The Research Fellow role is unpaid and non-employee, governed by a signed offer letter and a set of program terms. Fellows provide regular (e.g. quarterly) progress reports describing their research activities, achievements, and challenges, and participate in an annual evaluation.

The Institute does not claim any access to a Fellow's private work, and a Fellow's participation in Institute programs does not affect the Fellow's or the Institute's IP rights. Fellows are encouraged, though not required, to list "Research Fellow, Active Inference Institute" as a professional affiliation on related outputs.

Borsei di Ricerca Attuali

9 correnti Research Fellows

Ogni ricercatore lavora su un ambito di ricerca definito e ne presenta i risultati pubblicamente. Le righe provengono dall'elenco Research Fellows dell'Istituto.

Current Research Fellows at the Active Inference Institute.
CollegaPosizioneFellow sinceConcentratiK0Ricerca
Alexander HemmingResearch Fellow3/2026Foundations of IdeologyCross-disciplinary framework rooted in political neuroscience offering a normative account of how ideologies form, update, and interact, grounded in the Free Energy Principle.
Jake HooperResearch Fellow3/2026
Mahault AlbarracinResearch Fellow3/2026AI2C: Active Inference Alignment Coalition0000-0003-0916-4645Proposal for the Active Inference Alignment Coalition, a multi-institution consortium producing large-scale proposals for AI alignment grounded in the Free Energy Principle and Active Inference, with a standardized governance framework, reusable proposal modules, and shared infrastructure for evidence synthesis, benchmarking, and stakeholder engagement.
Hongju PaeResearch Fellow11/2025Perspective Architectures for Coherent and Attuned Artificial Agency0000-0002-5174-8858Develops computational and theoretical frameworks for modeling how artificial agents form perspective, maintain coherent affect, and achieve developmental alignment, integrating Active Inference with phenomenological insights. Builds simulation prototypes toward testable architectures of sentience for safe, ecologically grounded machine minds.
Sheila MacrineResearch Fellow11/2025Multi-dimensional taxonomy of agency0000-0002-8600-0938Extends the framework from the forthcoming book 'Embodied Intelligence: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Natural, Artificial, and Hybrid Systems' (MIT Press, 2026). Proposes a multi-dimensional taxonomy of agency formalizing nine qualitative dimensions — intentionality, autonomy, reflexivity, and others — as tunable Active Inference parameters, distinguishing agency (the driver) from intelligence (the engine).
Shagor RahmanResearch Fellow8/2025Myth of Objectivity0009-0004-0460-0078Investigates how morality and symbolic thought co-evolved (the Myth of Objectivity Hypothesis): the capacity to model shared cultural expectations enabled humans to transcend individual perspectives. Uses multi-agent active inference simulations and transcendental model selection, and offers a perspective on AI and AGI alignment.
Robert WordenResearch Fellow10/2024Wave Hypothesis0000-0001-7304-2752Two main research interests: 3-D spatial cognition, proposing wave-based rather than pure neural-firing models of consciousness in the thalamus and insect central body; and language, covering its evolution, learning, and brain mechanisms.
Jean-François CloutierResearch Fellow5/2024Symbolic Cognitive Robotics0009-0001-1841-2279I seek to find out what it takes, at a minimum, for a robot to learn, on its own, how to survive in a world it knows initially almost nothing about. Continuation of a project of many years programming simple autonomous robots to develop and ground understanding of cognition. Drawn into Active Inference, Kantian epistemology, map vs territory, biosemiotics, mortal computing, collective intelligence, autopoiesis and constraint closure.
John BoikResearch Fellow5/2024Cognitive Narrative Ecosystem (CogNarr)0000-0003-1289-7997Continuation of work described in a book and two series of concept papers exploring science-driven de novo development of new cognitive architectures fit for purpose. First series: new societal (economic and governance) systems as components of a society's cognitive architecture. Second series: an online ecosystem facilitating cognition in the large-group setting.

Superfici chiave

Borsa di studio in breve

Definizione di ambito

Una chiara focalizzazione del progetto — ricerca, software, educazione o lavoro applicato — concordata all'inizio.

Reportistica regolare

I colleghi condividono i loro progressi pubblicamente su base regolare, contribuendo al registro della comunità.

Output pubblici

Articoli, software, materiali didattici e set di dati che rimangono accessibili pubblicamente.

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