Associate Fellows
Doctoral candidates can arange lab rotations in one of these labs during the orientation year (1st year). However, these faculty memebers can only be co-supervisors in the PhD phase together with a proper fellow of the program.
Stephen Fleming
Research interests: • metacognition • subjective experience • disorders of mental health • computational modeling • functional MRI • MEG
Klaus Gramann
Research interests: • neural basis of spatial cognition • neural basis of embodiment • brain imaging • mobile brain imaging • EEG
Nicolas Schuck
Research interests: • decision making • reinforcement learning • neural networks • functional MRI
Yee Lee Shing
Research interests: • learning and memory development across the lifespan • predictive processing • environmental impacts on cognitive and brain development
Manuel Spitschan
Research interests: • mechanisms underlying circadian photoreception in humans (non-visual effects of light) • signal integration and circadian rhythms in visual function
Mariya Toneva
Research interests: • language processing • memory • computational modeling • task-dependent processing • semantics • multimodality • neuroimaging • ecologically valid experiments
Veronica Witte
Research interests: • impact of diet and lifestyle on brain structure and function • population neuroimaging • gut-microbiome-brain axis • cognitive aging • obesity and the brain • human interventional studies • genetic factors and gene-environment interactions • (micro-)structure of the hippocampus • structural imaging, diffusion tensor imaging, functional MRI & connectivity
Copyright of Veronica Witte’s photo: Gildemeister Fotografie/Universität Leipzig
External Associate Fellows
Claudine Gauthier
Research interests: • quantitative MRI • vascular imaging • metabolic Imaging • functional MRI • aging • cardiovascular disease • stroke
Daniel Margulies
Research interests: • human cortical organization • functional connectivity • cross-species comparative connectivity • higher-order cognition
Smadar Ovadia-Caro
Research interests: • neuroplasticity and brain organization • reorganization in response to pathological states such as stroke • individual cortical adaptability • fMRI connectivity • spatial and temporal features of on-going brain signals
Christopher Steele
Research interests: • training-related neuroplasticity • electrophysiological bases of motor control • cerebellar function, structure, and connectivity • white matter connectional architecture • quantitative assessment of stroke-related white matter disconnection • quantitative and physiologically-specific MRI • functional dynamics of the brain • image segmentation and registration