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Prof Ori Ossmy

Positions held:
  • Professor in Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, School of Psychological Sciences
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  • Overview

    Overview

    Biography

    I am a developmental psychologist, cognitive neuroscientist, and software engineer. I earned my BSc in Computer Science/Software Engineering from Ben-Gurion University in 2010 and spent a decade developing state-of-the-art technologies at Intel and Microsoft, while completing a PhD in Neuroscience at Tel Aviv University. I then moved to New York University, where I investigated motor, perceptual, and cognitive development from infancy to adulthood. Since 2021, I have been based in London, where I founded the within the . From 2024, I'm also part of the ÌÇÐÄlogoÈë¿Ú-UCL .

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    Administrative responsibilities

    • Head of the MSc programme in Developmental Science and Neurodiversity
    • Head of the MSc Dissertation Programme

    Honours and awards

    • Best Supervisor Award ÌÇÐÄlogoÈë¿Ú Student Union, July 2023
    • Teaching & Learning Award ÌÇÐÄlogoÈë¿Ú, University of London, August 2026
    • Innovative Methods Award British Psychology Society (BPS) - Developmental Section, July 2022
    • Distinguished Early Career Award International Congress of Infants Studies (ICIS), July 2022
    • David Kucharski Young Investigator Award International Society for Developmental Psychobiology (ISDP), July 2022
    • Elsevier/Vision Research Virtual Award Vision Sciences Society, July 2021
    • Postdoctoral Award NYU Faculty of Arts & Sciences, July 2019
    • Early Career Travel Award Society for Research in Child Development, July 2019
    • Trainee Professional Development Award Society for Neuroscience, July 2017
    • Honor Scholarship of Scientific Research President of the State of Israel, July 2013

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  • Research

    Research

    Research overview

    I study how humans' physical and embodied experiences shape their cognition and behaviour across the lifespan. My work is funded by the Leverhulme Trust, UKRI Economic and Social Research Council, British Academy, Simmons Foundation, Waterloo Foundation and Wellcome Trust.
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    I take an integrative, interdisciplinary approach by combining perspectives (human behaviour, child development, cognitive neuroscience, artificial intelligence, and motor control), recording methods (virtual reality, eye tracking, motion tracking, EEG, fMRI, fNIRS, EMG, and video), analytic techniques (time-series analyses, computational modeling, machine learning, robotics), populations (newborns to older adults, patients, and neurodiverse populations), settings (lab, home, school), and tasks (manual or locomotor).

    Research clusters and groups

    Post doctoral staff

    • Tommaso Ghilardi
    • Giulia Serino
  • Supervision and teaching

    Supervision and teaching

    Teaching

    Teaching modules

    • Developmental Science
    • MSc Psychology Dissertation
  • Publications

    Publications

    Article

    • Golmakani, S. and Kaplan, B.E. and Adolph, K.E and Ossmy, Ori (2025) . Journal of Experimental Child Psychology 250, pp. 106124. ISSN 0022-0965.
    • Grandchamp Des Raux, Helene and Ghilardi, Tommaso and Ossmy, Ori (2025) . International Journal of Behavioral Development ISSN 0165-0254.
    • Minxin, C. and Danyang, H. and Haq, Maryam and Ossmy, Ori (2025) . iScience ISSN 2589-0042.
    • Ossmy, Ori and Donati, Georgina and Kaur, A. and Sotoodeh, S. and Forrester, Gillian (2025) . Brain Research Bulletin 224 (111311), ISSN 0361-9230.
    • Hascher, Sophie and Ossmy, Ori and Pontes, Halley (2025) . International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction ISSN 1557-1874.
    • Ossmy, Ori and Han, D. and MacAlpine, P. and Hoch, J. and Stone, P. and Adolph, K. (2024) . Developmental Science 27 (2), pp. e13449. ISSN 1363-755x.
    • Grandchamp Des Raux, Helene and Ghilardi, T. and Soderberg, Christina and Ossmy, Ori (2024) . Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 379 (1911), ISSN 0962-8436.
    • CHERRY, Lauren and Soderberg, Christina and Haertter, J. and Ossmy, Ori (2024) . Journal of Human Centered Technology 3 (2), pp. 10-20. ISSN 2821-3467.
    • Hascher, S. and Shuster, Anastasia and Mukamel, R. and Ossmy, Ori (2023) . Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 17, ISSN 1662-5161.
    • Dexter, Melissa and Ossmy, Ori (2023) . Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience 15, ISSN 1663-4365.
    • Ossmy, Ori and Kaplan, B. and Han, D. and Xu, M. and Bianco, C. and Mukamel, R. and Adolph, K. (2022) . Current Biology 32 (1), pp. 190-199.e3. ISSN 0960-9822.
    • Ossmy, Ori and Mansano, L. and Frenkel-Toledo, S. and Kagan, E. and Koren, S. and Gilron, R. and Reznik, D. and Soroker, N. and Mukamel, R. (2022) . Disability and Rehabilitation: Assistive Technology 17 (3), pp. 349-361. ISSN 1748-3107.
    • Shuster, Anastasia and Inzelberg, L. and Ossmy, Ori and Izakson, L. and Hanein, Y. and Levy, D. (2021) . Brain and Behavior 11 (2), pp. e2386. ISSN 2162-3279.
    • Hoch, J. and Ossmy, Ori and Cole, W. and Hasan, S. and Adolph, K. (2021) . Child Development 92 (4), pp. 1337-1353. ISSN 0009-3920.
    • Ossmy, Ori and Han, D. and Kaplan, B. and Xu, M. and Bianco, C. and Mukamel, R. and Adolph, K. (2021) . Scientific Reports 11 (18106), ISSN 2045-2322.
    • Lakertz, Y. and Ossmy, Ori and Friedmann, N. and Mukamel, R. and Fried, I. (2021) . NeuroImage 226 (117499), ISSN 1053-8119.
    • Ossmy, Ori and Adolph, K. (2020) . Current Biology 30 (23), pp. 4553-4562.e4. ISSN 0960-9822.
    • Ossmy, Ori and Han, D. and Cheng, M. and Kaplan, B. and Adolph, K. (2019) . Journal of Experimental Child Psychology 189 (104696), ISSN 0022-0965.
    • Karasik, L. and Tamis-Lemonda, C. and Ossmy, Ori and Adolph, K. (2018) . PLoS One 13 (10), pp. e0204428. ISSN 1932-6203.
    • Ossmy, Ori and Hoch, J. and MacAlpine, P. and Hasan, S. and Stone, P. and Adolph, K. (2018) . Frontiers in Neurorobotics 12, ISSN 1662-5218.
    • Ossmy, Ori and Mukamel, R. (2018) . Neuroscience 382, pp. 144-153. ISSN 0306-4522.
    • Aridan, N. and Ossmy, Ori and Buaron, B. and Reznik, D. and Mukamel, R. (2018) . Brain Research 1691, pp. 55-63. ISSN 0006-8993.
    • Ossmy, Ori and Mukamel, R. (2018) . NeuroImage 172, pp. 864-873. ISSN 1053-8119.
    • Ossmy, Ori and Mukamel, R. (2017) . Journal of Visualized Experiments ISSN 1940-087X.
    • Ossmy, Ori and Mukamel, R. (2017) . PLoS One 12 (1), pp. e0168520. ISSN 1932-6203.
    • Ossmy, Ori and Mukamel, R. (2016) . Cell Reports 17 (11), pp. 2891-2900. ISSN 2211-1247.
    • Ossmy, Ori and Mukamel, R. (2016) . Scientific Reports 6 (32133), ISSN 2045-2322.
    • Ossmy, Ori and Fried, I. and Mukamel, R. (2015) . NeuroImage 117, pp. 151-159. ISSN 1053-8119.
    • Reznik, D. and Ossmy, Ori and Mukamel, R. (2015) . The Journal of Neuroscience 35 (5), pp. 2173-2180. ISSN 0270-6474.
    • Ossmy, Ori and Ben-Shachar, M. and Mukamel, R. (2014) . Cortex 59, pp. 74-83. ISSN 0010-9452.
    • Ossmy, Ori and Moran, R. and Pfeffer, T. and Tsetsos, Konstantinos and Usher, Marius and Donner, T.H. (2013) . Current Biology 23 (11), pp. 981-986. ISSN 0960-9822.

    Book section

    • Muszynska, Marianna and Ossmy, Ori (2024) . In: Plass, J.L. and Ochoa, X. (eds.) Serious Games: 10th Joint International Conference, JCSG 2024, New York City, NY, USA, November 7–8, 2024, Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer. pp. 455-462. ISBN 9783031741371.
    • Cherry, Lauren and Cheng, M. and Ghilardi, T. and Ossmy, Ori (2024) . In: 2024 IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL). IEEE. ISBN 9798350348569.
    • Krishna, A. and Kaplan, B. and Pope, J. and Todorovic, S. and Adolph, K. and Ossmy, Ori (2024) . In: 2024 IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL). IEEE. ISBN 9798350348569.
    • Han, D. and Aziere, N. and Wang, T. and Ossmy, Ori and Krishna, A. and Wang, H. and Shen, R. and Todorovic, S. and Adolph, K. (2024) . In: 2024 IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL). IEEE. ISBN 9798350348569.
    • Le, H. and Hoch, J. and Ossmy, Ori and Adolph, K. and Fern, X. and Fern, A. (2021) . In: 2021 IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL). IEEE. ISBN 9781728162430.
    • Ossmy, Ori and Mansano L, L. and Frenkel-Toledo, S. and Kagan, E. and Koren, S. and Gilron, R. and Reznik, D. and Soroker, N. and Mukamel, R. (2020) . In: 2019 International Conference on Virtual Rehabilitation (ICVR). IEEE. ISBN 9781728112862.
    • Adolph, K. and Hoch, J. and Ossmy, Ori (2019) . In: Wagman, J.B. and Blau, J.J.C. (eds.) Perception as Information Detection: Reflections on Gibson’s Ecological Approach to Visual Perception. Resources for Ecological Psychology Series. Taylor & Francis. pp. 222-236. ISBN 9780429316128.
    • Ossmy, Ori and Gilmore, R. and Adolph, K. (2019) . In: Arai, K. and Kapoor, S. (eds.) Advances in Computer Vision: Proceedings of the 2019 Computer Vision Conference (CVC). Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing. Springer. pp. 147-156. ISBN 9783030177973.
    • Ossmy, Ori and Tam, O. and Puzis, R. and Rokach, L. and Inbar, O. and Elovici, Y. (2011) . In: Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems. SciTePress. pp. 316-320. ISBN 9789898425560.

    Conference item

    • Lakner, V. and Ossmy, Ori and Mareschal, Denis (2025) . 2025 IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL), 2025, Prague, Czech Republic
    • Muszynska, Marianna and Dalton, R. and Pinti, Paola and Kumar, S. and Farran, E. and Ossmy, Ori (2025) . 2025 IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL), 2025, Prague, Czech Republic
    • Peleg, Nina and Rizvi, J. and Tolmie, A. and Ossmy, Ori (2025) . IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning, ICDL, 2025, Prague, Czech Republic
    • Ossmy, Ori and Rowan, H. and Sotoodeh, S. and Hall, Jazmine and Donati, Georgina and Forrester, Gillian (2025) . 2025 IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL), 2025, Prague, Czech Republic
    • Hascher, Sophie and Ossmy, Ori and Pontes, Halley (2024) . Serious Games - 10th Joint International Conference, JCSG 2024, 2024, New York, U.S.

    Monograph

    • Muszynska, Marianna and Varma, Reeshu and Ossmy, Ori (2025) . PsyArxiv arXiv.
    • Muszynska, Marianna and Ossmy, Ori (2025) . PsyArxiv arXiv.
    • Hancock, Lucy and Ossmy, Ori (2024) . PsyArxiv arXiv.
    • Ghilardi, T. and Ossmy, Ori (2024) . PsyArxiv arXiv.
    • Ossmy, Ori and Han, D. and Cheng, M. and Bianco, C. and Kaplan, B. and Adolph, K. (2022) . PsyArxiv arXiv.
    • Ossmy, Ori and Mukamel, R. (2020) . PsyArxiv arXiv.
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