Tomasz Komendziński, PhD

Tomasz Komendziński PhD
Assistant Professor

Research Areas

He focuses on interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research, integrating methods and tools for the study of the brain and mind. His work includes the theory of communication as sharing, embodied cognitive sciences, and applications of cognitive science in medicine, particularly deep and embodied medicine, and the use of machine learning to identify dementia biomarkers in collaboration with RIKEN AIP. This research explores new competencies for medicine using modern technologies, large data repositories, and artificial intelligence, illustrated by studies on disorders of consciousness and neurodegeneration within projects such as Society 5.0 (Japan), AI for Social Good (Google), and the Inclusive Society (OECD). In collaboration with RIKEN AIP, he works on dementia biomarker detection using machine learning in passive brain-computer interface (BCI) paradigms. He also promotes Inside Out Health Neuroscience, focusing on interoception, interoceptive body awareness (respiratory rhythms, emotional regulation), mind-wandering, and prospective memory, studying the weakening of mind/brain–body–environment coupling (embodiment) in older adults. Inside Out Health Neuroscience is an original approach integrating the latest scientific findings to understand body-brain interactions and their health implications.

Key Publications

  1. Rutkowski, T. M., Komendziński, T., & Otake-Matsuura, M. (2024). Mild cognitive impairment prediction and cognitive score regression in the elderly using EEG topological data analysis and machine learning with awareness assessed in affective reminiscent paradigm. Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience, 15, 1–10. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnagi.2023.1294139
  2. Matos, M., McEwan, K., Kanovský, M., et al. (2021). The role of social connection on the experience of COVID-19 related post-traumatic growth and stress. PLoS ONE, 16(12), 1–26. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0261384
  3. Osińska, A., Rynkiewicz, A., Binder, M., et al. (2022). Non-invasive vagus nerve stimulation in treatment of disorders of consciousness: Longitudinal case study. Frontiers in Neuroscience, 16, 1–14. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2022.834507

Full list of publications on: ORCID / Omega / ResearchGate / Scholar

Projects and Grants

  1. Principal Investigator: NCU – RIKEN Center for Advanced Intelligence Project Research Agreement – TK (since 2023). Cross-cultural data collection to elucidate digital neuro-biomarkers of dementia and COVID-19-related mental burnout.
  2. Researcher: International cross-cultural project – University of Coimbra (Portugal), during the COVID-19 pandemic. Compassion, social bonds and resilience to traumatic experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic (conducted in 22 countries on 5 continents).
  3. Researcher: CARES – INTERREG EUROPE Programme (8 EU countries), March 1, 2023 – February 28, 2027. Remote Healthcare for Silver Europe. Telecare for an aging Europe.
  4. Researcher: Annecy Behavioral Science Lab. Scale Development and Scale Validation of the Broadly Shared Natural Content Domain of Relationship Quality Scale (BSNCD-RQ Scale).
  5. Researcher: Emerging Field IDUB Projects (Nicolaus Copernicus University, 2021–2024): PeCoLa (Perception, Cognition, Language) and CD&We (Culture, Development & Wellbeing).

Academic Activities

  1. Member: Polish Philosophical Society (since 1984).
  2. Member: Society for Philosophy of Creativity, USA (since 1994).
  3. Member: International Association for the Study of Controversies (since 2003).
  4. Member: Polish Cognitive Science Society (since its foundation).
  5. Member: Society for Social Neuroscience, USA.
  6. Founding Member: Alfred North Whitehead Metaphysical Society (since 2005).
  7. Member: Association for Psychological Science, USA (since early 2008).
  8. Member: Society for Philosophy and Psychology.
  9. Member: Polish Stroke Society.
  10. Member: Global Initiative on Loneliness & Connection
  11. Member: iACToR – International Association of CyberPsychology, Training, and Rehabilitation, Italy.
  12. Member: Society for Mind/Brain Sciences, USA.
  1. Main organizer of the conference series Cognitivist Autumn in Toruń – International Interdisciplinary Conference (2006–2010), Nicolaus Copernicus University, Poland
  2. Main organizer, RIKEN AIP & NCU Workshops 2023 (September 25–27, 2023), Nicolaus Copernicus University, Toruń, Poland. Included: Second International Workshop on Complex Systems Science and Health Neuroscience (September 25, 2023) and Workshop on Mathematical Foundations of Machine Learning (September 26, 2023).
  3. Main organizer, RIKEN AIP & NCU Workshops 2025 – Nicolaus Copernicus University, Toruń, Poland. Nature–Neurotechnology–Olfactory–Wellbeing Workshop (May 10–11, 2025).
  4. Co-organizer, Workshop at Doshisha University, Kyoto – First International Workshop on Complex Systems Science & Health Neuroscience (November 28, 2022).
  5. Co-organizer, Workshop at RIKEN AIP, Tokyo – Japanese-German-Polish Workshop on AI Applications for Dementia: Machine Learning, Robotics, and Health Neuroscience Approaches for Aging Societies (December 2, 2022).
  6. Co-organizer, Special Session at SCIS & ISIS Conference – Neurotechnology Advances in Machine Learning Applications for Dementia Neuro-biomarker Development, Cognitive Load Elucidation, and Brain-computer Interfaces, held at Soft Computing and Intelligent Systems and 23rd International Symposium on Advanced Intelligent Systems in Ise-Shima, Mie, Japan (November 29 – December 2, 2022).
  7. Reviewer for journals: Frontiers in Neuroscience (IF 3.2), Computers in Biology and Medicine (IF 6.3, Elsevier), Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (IF 6.2, Elsevier), Neuroscience Informatics (Elsevier), Heliyon (IF 3.6, Elsevier), Advances in Cognitive Psychology, and JoVE.
  8. Scientist of the Future 2023, International Forum on Intelligent Development.
  9. Collective patent application: PL P.411648 – „System supporting perceptual-cognitive development in infants and babies”.

Contact

Email: tkomen[@]umk.pl
Office: Room 214, Institute of Psychology Nicolaus Copernicus University, ul. Gagarina 39, 87-100 Toruń, Poland