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Hanna Dettki

Critic · DISC type C
Research Associate at Simons Foundation
📍 New York, New York, United States

Hanna Dettki is an applied machine learning researcher and cognitive scientist focused on bridging human and artificial intelligence. At the Simons Foundations Flatiron Institute, she develops open-source frameworks for modeling human perception. She holds dual masters degrees from New York University and the University of Tübingen and created a toolkit for benchmarking causal reasoning in LLMs.

Outside of her academic work, Hanna enjoys engaging in various sports and playing board games.

Hanna is a Fulbright Scholar, a prestigious award that funded her masters studies at New York University.

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Experience
5 Years
Current Role
Research Associate
Location
New York, New York, United States
Personality Overview

How Hanna shows up

Negotiator
Objective Thinker
Critic

They are quite likely to negotiate on pricing or other key terms. They like to do things independently and don’t look for support from others. They choose to analyze logically and value facts to emotions.

Priorities

Topics Hanna cares about

Human-AI Alignment
Her research investigates human-AI alignment through the lens of causal reasoning to create AI systems that are cooperative and trustworthy.
Causal Reasoning
Developed "causAlign", an open-source benchmark for comparing the causal reasoning abilities of large language models against human performance.
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Career

Work history

8-2025
Research Associate
Simons Foundation
5-2025 - 8-2025
Summer Research Associate
Simons Foundation
8-2024 - 5-2025
Guest Researcher
Simons Foundation
10-2023
Graduate Student Researcher
New York University
10-2020 - 3-2021
Research Assistant
University of Tuebingen
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Media appearances

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Education
8-2023 - 5-2025
Masters
New York University
Master's degree
University of Tübingen
Social presence
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Behavioral profile

DISC profile (public)

C

Calculativeness (C)

Calculativeness (C) reflects the degree to which a person is likely to be cautious, systematic and analytical. Those scoring high tend to emphasise quality and accuracy.

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