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Veronique Ziegler, PhD

Critical Attention Systems Founder

Veronique Ziegler is a physicist and independent researcher developing Critical Attention Systems, a research studio focused on adaptive regulation, attention, and stability in artificial agents.Her scientific background is in experimental nuclear physics, detector reconstruction, and large-scale scientific software for the CLAS12 experiment at Jefferson Lab. Her current independent research explores computational models of uncertainty regulation, disturbance recovery, and adaptive control in artificial agents.Through Critical Attention Systems, she investigates how concepts such as attention, stability, noise, regulatory timing, and training can be studied using simulation-based models. The work also opens a careful bridge toward contemplative studies, asking whether computational tools can provide useful language for understanding trained attention without reducing contemplative traditions to technology.