0-Year Students and Mentors

Research interests: • brain network analysis • linear and non-linear interactions in • electrophysiological signals • Brain Computer Interface (BCI) • (blind) source separation • multilinear methods in machine learning

Research interests: • hormonal transition states and implications for brain structure, cognition, emotional well-being • depression susceptibility and resilience • sex hormones, menstrual cycle, premenstrual dysphoric disorder • multimodal neuroimaging (MRI, PET, EEG)

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

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: • learning with deep neural networks • brain-inspired machine learning • cognitive computational neuroscience • visual perception

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: • source memory • metacognition • processing fluency • implicit-explicit distinction

Research interests: • mechanisms underlying neuronal and cognitive plasticity in the adult brain • combination of molecular and imaging techniques with behavioral data to understand the neural control of birdsong • neuronal circuits and gene networks involved in vocal learning and language acquisition

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: • ambulatory assessment • bipolar disorders • eHealth/mHealth • digital phenotyping

Research interests: • surface-based neuroanatomical brain patterns in psychiatric disorders • personalized prognostic tools using machine learning • international validation of multivariate predictive models

Research interests: • developmental psychobiology • childhood adversity • neural plasticity • plastic reorganization • sensitive periods of brain development

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: • spatial navigation and virtual reality in neuropsychology • neurorehabilitation • clinical and cognitive neuroscience

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

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

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