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

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

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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