Johannes J. Mohn

Doctoral Candidate

Johannes.J.Mohn@maxplanckschools.de

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

2019–2020  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

Fundamentals of Psychology: Motivation. Lecture and Seminar, Module 1, B.Sc. Applied Midwife Sciences and Module 2, B.Sc. Health Sciences, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Winter 22/23

Communication and Motivation in Midwifery. Seminar, Modul 1, B.Sc. Applied Midwife Sciences, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Winter 23/24

Fundamentals of Social Sciences: Communication. Lecture and Seminar, Module 2, B.Sc. Health Sciences, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Winter 22/23, Winter 23/24

Cognition I. Lecture and Seminar, Module 2, B.Sc. Health Sciences, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Winter 22/23

Pain from a Psychological Perspective. Seminar, Module 3, B.Sc. Nursing, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Winter 23/24

Subjective Theories of Illness. Seminar, Module 3, B.Sc. Nursing, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Winter 23/24

Stress from a Biological and Psychological Perspective. Seminar, Module 6, Medical Curriculum, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Winter 22/23, Summer 23, Winter 23/24

Pawlow’s Heirs. Seminar, Module 6, Medical Curriculum, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Winter 22/23, Summer 23, Winter 23/24

Publications

Falck, J., Zhang, L., Raffington, L., Mohn, J. J., Triesch, J., Heim, C., & Shing, Y. L. (2023). Longitudinal changes in value-based learning in middle childhood: Distinct contributions of hippocampus and striatum. eLife, 12:RP89483. https://doi.org/10.7554/elife.89483.1

Raffington, L., Czamara, D., Mohn, J. J., Falck, J., Schmoll, V., Heim, C., Binder, E., & 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, 40:100720. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dcn.2019.100720

Poster presentations and talks

Mohn, J. J. (2023). Neural signatures of statistical learning and their links with episodic memory across the first year of life [Talk]. CuttingEEG Gardens, Regensburg, Germany.

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., 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. (2019). Testing the longitudinal links between brain morphology and executive functions in middle childhood: Effects of poverty [Talk]. 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, Germany.

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