0-Year Students and Mentors

Research interests: • theoretical neuroscience • machine learning • graph theory • random matrices

Research interests: • learning and decision making under uncertainty • development and application of computational cognitive models

Research interests: • Janus-faced role of the endogenous cannabinoid system in fear, reward regulation and cognition • mouse models combined with molecular assays, pharmacological tools and sophisticated behavioral tests • consequences of selective alterations in endocannabinoid levels

Research interests: • fundamental and clinical research in the fields of memory and executive functions • neural plasticity and neurodegeneration towards translational medicine

Research interests: • investigating the resemblance between expert and machine driven biomedical image segmentation • structural and functional properties of the human visual system • high-resolution cytoarchitectonic brain mapping in big data sets • machine learning applications for biomedical image segmentation

Research interests: • combination of computer science, mathematics and statistics to interpret biological data • development, implementation and application of artificial intelligence and machine learning techniques • analysis of sequential data, specifically genetic and transcriptional data

Research interests: • interplay of sleep and memory in the aging brain • mechanisms causing normal age-related and pathological memory decline • different neuroimaging methods like EEG, polysomnography (PSG), and MRI with behavioral memory paradigms

Research interests: • machine learning and cognitive neuroscience • utilizing deep learning methods to analyze neuroimaging data

Research interests: • consciousness • social cognition • psychiatry with a focus on psychosis

Research interests: • developing and validating new and emerging MRI methods for patients with cerebrovascular diseases • use of new technologies in clinical practice • development of novel frameworks for making statistical decisions • promoting principles of good scientific practice

Research interests: • brain plasticity due to physical exercise and sensory deprivation • vestibular contributions to cognition

Research interests: • pain perception in humans using fMRI • cognitive modulation of pain perception and its representation in the entire central nervous system