Ivan Pozdniakov

Ivan Pozdniakov

About

Researcher, R developer, and statistics educator based in Kiel, Germany. MSc in Cognitive Sciences (HSE, Moscow); background in brain stimulation and neuroimaging — TMS, tACS, EEG, MEG.

My trajectory runs from experimental neuroscience toward computational modeling — a deliberate accumulation of empirical, statistical, and programming skills built over a decade of research and teaching. Looking for a PhD position at the intersection of computation, cognition, and neural dynamics.

My curiosity extends well beyond neuroscience — to philosophy of mind, digital humanities, history, and a few other rabbit holes.

Projects

Data Analysis and Statistics in R

Free textbook (Russian) on wrangling, visualization, statistics, and reproducible workflows with R and the tidyverse.

{rdracor} — CRAN package

R client for the DraCor API — programmatic access to multilingual drama corpora in TEI-XML. Play texts, metadata, character networks.

DraCor Shiny App

Interactive visualization of drama corpus data — character interaction networks, corpus statistics, text exploration.

Live-Coding Data Analysis

Unscripted streams working through real datasets in R: wrangling, modeling, visualization.

Æsthetics Ranking

A small side project: pairwise comparisons of visual aesthetics from the CARI archive — build a personal top 5, see the global ranking.