Teaching professor of psychology
b.sc., m.sc., ph.d., Lomonosov moscow state university, russia; Dr. Habil.
Maria Falikman earned a Ph.D. at Lomonosov Moscow State University and started her research and teaching career there. Most recently, Dr. Falikman has been Professor of Psychology at HSE University in Moscow, Russia, where she also served as Head of the School of Psychology. Under her leadership, the international reputation of the School of Psychology increased significantly.
During her early years of teaching, Dr. Falikman developed and taught the first Introduction to Cognitive Science course in Russia, and launched the first Cognitive Science Seminar series there as well. She has recorded approximately thirty popular web lectures for the Postnauka/Serious Science project, including a Cognitive Psychology course, and has been featured in two documentaries, one about the evolution of the human brain and the other about cognitive robotics. She is author of the Psychology of Attention handbook and co-editor of four Readers in Psychology in Russian—Cognitive Psychology: History and State of the Art; Horizons of Cognitive Psychology; Psychology of Thinking; Psychology of Motivation and Emotion.
Dr. Falikman was among a select number of Russian and Buddhist scholars invited to engage with the Dalai Lama on issues of consciousness and attention in a series of presentations and conversations in 2017, She has been a Visiting Scholar at Harvard University and an Erasmus+ Guest Scholar at the University of Groningen, The Netherlands. Dr. Falikman has twice been awarded the Russian National Psychological Award—in 2013 for the above-mentioned Reader in Cognitive Psychology, and in 2020 for a public workshop on anticipation and predictive coding. She was honored with the HSE University’s Best Teacher Award in 2019, 2020, and 2021.
A cognitive psychologist with broad interests, Dr. Falikman’s research topics include visual attention and top-down influences upon visual information processing, joint attention, cultural evolution and digital transformations of the human mind from a cultural-historical perspective, and the mind-body problem.
Dr. Falikman is also a member of PEN International and an award-winning literary and poetry translator. She has translated a number of British and American authors and also published two poetry collections.
