Adjunct Faculty Members

Carsten Finke
Research interests: • cognitive deficits and advanced MRI studies in antibody-mediated neuropsychiatric diseases such as autoimmune encephalitis, multiple sclerosis and neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorders • clinical and cognitive neuroscience of memory and memory disorders, especially memory deficits in patients with transient and persistent hippocampal dysfunction • development of digital cognitive assessment and rehabilitation tools with a focus on the application of Virtual and Augmented Reality setups in clinical settings

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

Lucia Melloni
Research interests: • neural mechanisms of consciousness • structure of subjective experience • interplay between perception and memory • neural mechanisms by which the brain predictively controls perception and cognition

Monika Schönauer
Research interests: • memory consolidation • learning-induced neural plasticity • sleep • memory reactivation • dreaming

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

Sofie L. Valk
Research interests: • gene-environment interactions • brain organisation • social cognition • transdiagnostic models • lifespan

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
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External Adjunct Faculty Members

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