Johannes J. Mohn

Johannes J. Mohn

Doctoral Candidate
Research interests: • neurocognitive development • infant electroencephalography (EEG) • child-adapted magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) • statistical learning and early memory development • stress and stress-related neuropsychopathologies • neurobehavioural adaptations to early life stress and adverse childhood experiences • longitudinal data analysis • integration of animal experimentation with human cognitive neuroscience

 

Academic education

since 2020   Doctoral candidate, Max Planck School of Cognition, Leipzig, Germany
                       Doctoral research performed at Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany
                       Supervisors: Christine Heim, and Yee Lee Shing
                       Lab rotations in the orientation phase: Elisabeth Binder, Jan Born, and Pascal Fries

20192020  Research assistant, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany

2019              Master of Arts in Mind and Brain, Berlin School of Mind and Brain, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany

2016              Bachelor of Arts in English and Philosophy, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany

 

Scientific awards and memberships

2012–2019  Full academic scholarship, German Academic Scholarship Foundation
2012              Scheffel Prize, Literary Society/Scheffelbund, Karlsruhe, Germany
2011              Winner of the Baden-Württemberg regionals in the History Competition, German Federal President and Körber Foundation

 

Teaching experience

WS 2022/23  Foundations of Psychology: Motivation, Lecture and Seminar, Module 1, Bachelor of Science Applied Midwife Sciences and Module 2, Bachelor of Science Health Sciences, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany

WS 2022/23  Foundations of Social Sciences: Communication, Lecture and Seminar, Module 2, Bachelor of Science Health Sciences, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany

WS 2022/23  Foundations of Social Sciences: Cognition I, Lecture and Seminar, Modul 2, Bachelor of Science Health Sciences, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany

WS 2022/23  Stress from a biological and psychological perspective, Seminar, Module 6, Medical Curriculum, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany

WS 2022/23  Pawlow’s Heirs: Seminar, Module 6, Medical Curriculum, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany

 

Publication

Raffington, L., Czamara, D., Mohn, J. J., Falck, J., Schmoll, V., Heim, C., Binder, E. B., & Shing, Y. L. (2019). Stable longitudinal associations of family income with children’s hippocampal volume and memory persist after controlling for polygenic scores of educational attainment. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 40. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dcn.2019.100720

 

Poster presentations and talks

Mohn, J. J., Gronow, F., Pittner, K., Bauer, M., Buss, C., & Shing, Y. L. (2023). A longitudinal investigation of the ontogeny of memory consolidation [Poster]. Annual Berlin-Bochum Memory Alliance Symposium, Berlin, Germany.

Mohn, J. J., Gronow, F., Pittner, K., Bauer, M., Pittol Nercolini, V., Melnik, A., Buss, C., & Shing, Y. L. (2023). An EEG study to investigate individual differences in statistical learning in one-month-olds [Poster]. FIT'NG Annual Conference, Santa Rosa, USA.

Mohn, J. J., Byington, N., Grimsrud, G., Bauer, M., Hoffmann, F., Dammering, F., Bentz, L., Pittner, K., O'Donovan, F., Rasmussen, J., Fair, D., Binder, E., Winter, S., Entringer, S., Miranda Dominguez, O., Buss, C., & Heim, C. (2023). Leveraging large-scale brain-wide association discovery in smaller samples: A PolyNeuro Risk Score approach to Kids2Health resting state data [Poster]. Flux Congress, Santa Rosa, USA.

Mohn, J. J. (2019). Testing the longitudinal links between brain morphology and executive functions in middle childhood: Effects of poverty [Talk]. 7th Mind Brain Body Symposium, Berlin, Germany.

Mohn, J. J., Raffington, L., Keresztes, A., Heim, C., Shing, Y.L. (2018). Testing the longitudinal links between brain morphology and executive functions in middle childhood with poverty as a moderator [Poster]. Flux Congress, Berlin.

 

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