I. Şafak Erener
Doctoral CandidateResearch interests: • sensorimotor integration • neurobiology of human experience and
consciousness • linear classification and dimensionality reduction • ultra-high field and laminar fMRI • manifold learning • neural subspaces • embodied cognition
Academic education
| since 2023 | Doctoral candidate, Max Planck School of Cognition, Leipzig, Germany Lab rotations in the orientation phase: John-Dylan Haynes, Peter König and Patrick Haggard |
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| 2021–2023 | Master of Science in Mind and Brain – Track Brain, Berlin School of Mind & Brain, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany |
| 2018–2021 | Bachelor of Science in Psychology, Universiteit Maastricht, the Netherlands |
Research experiences
| 2020–2023 | Research internship on Multivoxel Pattern Analysis (MVPA) of human-AI interactions in fMRI (Prof. Dr. John-Dylan Haynes & Dr. Doris Pischedda), Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany |
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| 2020–2023 | Research internship on Representation Similarity Analysis (RSA) of semantic categorization in aging in fMRI (Prof. Dr. Roberto Cabeza & Dr. Loris Naspi), Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany |
| 2020–2021 | MaRBLe Internship Programme – Research internship on psychophysics of procedural memory consolidation, Perception Attention Learning and Memory (PALM) group (Prof. Dr. Peter de Weerd & Dr. Amanda Kaas), Maastricht University, the Netherlands |
Teaching
| 2019–2021 | Tutor in Statistics, Methods in Research, Consciousness, Learning and Memory, Social Cognition, and Critical Thinking, (Bachelor’s level) Universiteit Maastricht, the Netherlands |
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Scholarships
| 2021 | Deutschlandstipendium, German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) |
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| 2020 | Deutschlandstipendium, German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) |
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