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02/2022 – today
Leipzig University
Post-Doctoral Researcher & Lecturer
Biological and Cognitive Psychology, Institute of Psychology – Wilhelm-Wundt
Research on adaptive plasticity within the conceptual-semantic system (fMRI, TMS)
Teaching in Biological and Cognitive Psychology (B.Sc. & M.Sc. degree programs)
02/2022 – today
Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig
Guest Researcher
Lise Meitner Research Group Cognition and Plasticity (PD Dr. Gesa Hartwigsen)
Research on adaptive plasticity within the conceptual-semantic system (fMRI, TMS)
Support of other projects of the research group (e.g. reorganization of language and domain-general brain networks after stroke, neural correlates of reading in dyslexia, improvement of TMS targeting and dosing methods using computational electrical field simulations)
03/2021 – 01/2022
Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig
Post-Doctoral Researcher
Lise Meitner Research Group Cognition and Plasticity (PD Dr. Gesa Hartwigsen)
Research on adaptive plasticity within the conceptual-semantic system (fMRI & TMS)
09/2016 – 02/2021
Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig
Doctoral researcher
Research on conceptual-semantic processing in the human brain (fMRI & TMS)
Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Angela D. Friederici, PD Dr. Gesa Hartwigsen
08/2015 – 02/2016
Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig
Research Intern
Supervisors: Dr. Gesa Hartwigsen, Dr. Lars Meyer, Prof. Dr. Angela D. Friederici
Master Thesis Research on Argument-Verb Dependency Processing in the Brain using TMS
02–06/2014
University of Trento, Italy
Research Intern
Research in Prof. Collignon’s Lab of Crossmodal Perception & Plasticity using MEG
04–07/2013, 04–07/2014
University of Osnabrück, Germany
Teaching Assistant
Teaching assistance in Prof. Bosch’s introductory course in Theoretical & Computational Linguistics
08–12/2013
Harvard University, Cambridge, USA
Research Assistant
Research in Prof. Kreiman’s Lab for Computational Neuroscience
Analysis of electrophysiological data (ECoG) of epilepsy patients watching a movie in order to discriminate speech-selective areas in the human brain
09/2016 – 07/2021
Ph.D. in Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Potsdam, Germany
Grade: Summa Cum Laude (A, highest honors)
Thesis: The Neural Basis of Conceptual Knowledge Retrieval – Insights from fMRI and TMS in the Healthy Human Brain
Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Angela D. Friederici, PD Dr. Gesa Hartwigsen
02–06/2015
University of Trento, Italy
Semester abroad
Courses in Cognitive Neuroscience, Computer Science
10/2014 – 09/2016
M.Sc. in Cognitive Science, University of Osnabrück, Germany
Grade 1.0 (A, with distinction)
Focus: Cognitive Neuroscience, Linguistics
Study project: Development of Auditory Rule Learning from Childhood to Adulthood (EEG / ERP)
Thesis: The Neural Basis of Argument-Verb Dependency Processing – A Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Study. Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Jutta L. Müller (Uni Osnabrück), PD Dr. Gesa Hartwigsen (MPI CBS Leipzig)
08–12/2013:
Harvard University, Cambridge, USA
Semester abroad
Courses in Neuroscience, Linguistics & Computer Science
10/2011 – 09/2014:
B.Sc. in Cognitive Science, University of Osnabrück, Germany
Grade 1.0 (A, with distinction)
Focus: Neuroscience, Cognitive Psychology, Computational Linguistics, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence
Thesis: The Functional Neuroanatomy of Speech Perception – Insights from Electrocorticography on an Epilepsy Patient Watching a Movie. Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Jutta L. Müller, Prof. Dr. Peter Bosch (Uni Osnabrück), Prof. Dr. Gabriel Kreiman (Harvard University)
2023 Teaching award of the Institute for Psychology, Leipzig University
2023 Poster prize of the German Society for Clinical Neurophysiology (DGKN), Tübingen, Germany
2022 Poster prize of the Transcranial Brain Stimulation in Cognitive Neuroscience Workshop at the University of Trento, Rovereto, Italy
2021 Nominated for the Otto Hahn Medal of the Max Planck Society
2021 Nominated for the PhD dissertation award of the University of Potsdam
11/2013 – 09/2016 Scholarship at Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes (German Academic Scholarship Foundation)
08/2013 – 12/2013 DAAD Promos scholarship for semester abroad at Harvard University
09/2011 – 04/2012 & 09/2014 – 04/2015 Two-time scholarship “Niedersachsenstipendium”
07/2011 – 09/2016 Scholarship at e-fellows.net