Dr. Paul Vogt has joined the Artificial Intelligence department of the Bernoulli Institute in June 2023 as a lecturer in Robotics. 
He was among the very first students in Technische Cognitiewetenschap (Cognitive Science and Engineering, renamed into Artificial Intelligence), starting in 1993 at the University of Groningen. After finishing this study in 1997, he obtained a PhD at the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Belgium) in 2000 on 'Lexicon grounding in mobile robots'. He held several postdoc positions at Universiteit Maastricht, Tilburg University and University of Edinburgh, before obtaining a permanent position at Tilburg University. 

His research focuses on understanding the cultural, social and cognitive mechanisms that underly the evolution and acquisition of language and communication. Vogt is particularly interested in investigating how humans and machines can ground the meaning of linguistic utterances in the real world and in communication. To study this, he has used a variety of techniques, ranging from agent-based modelling, child-robot interaction and psycholinguistic experiments to ethnographic research of children's language acquisition in different cultures. Currently, he is setting up a social robotics lab to study how social robots can communicate effectively with humans.