Approximately two million euros of LOEWE funding will be provided for his research over a total of six years. LOEWE Start Professorships are aimed at excellent scientists at an early stage in their careers, who are attracted to or retained in Hesse.

Charley's research will establish a further link between the twin disciplines of cognitive science and AI at TU Darmstadt. His work focuses on the question of how artificial intelligence (AI) can use human learning strategies to become more flexible, efficient and social. It uses machine learning to understand human cognitive processes and, on this basis, to develop AI systems that are more efficient, robust and fair than current variants. His approach can promote learning in educational institutions and addresses key challenges of today's AI: high data and energy requirements, limited adaptability and limited social learning. Charley is researching how humans learn efficiently from little data and use social information to flexibly handle new situations – aspects that would be beneficial for AI development. His goal is a human-centred AI that uses the mechanisms of human cognition and can learn and innovate like humans.