
Milica
Denić
Linguistics Department at Tel Aviv University
Supervisor Prof. Roni KatzirDr. Milica Denić is an Azrieli International Postdoctoral Fellow in the Linguistics Department at Tel Aviv University under the supervision of Prof. Roni Katzir.
In her current research, Milica is working on a central question about human cognition: what are the building blocks of human thought?
To answer this question, she is developing novel approaches, combining tools from linguistics, cognitive science, and computational modelling and applying them to numerical and logical concepts.
Milica was born in Serbia and moved to Slovenia, where she studied for a BA in linguistics at the University of Ljubljana. She pursued her MSc and PhD in cognitive science at École normale supérieure in Paris under the supervision of Dr. Emmanuel Chemla and Dr. Benjamin Spector. She then held a postdoctoral position at the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation at the University of Amsterdam under the supervision of Prof. Jakub Szymanik. Besides research, Milica enjoys inline skating, films, and chess.

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