Resume
Experience
Sep. 2021 - current
Post-doctoral Fellow
University of Minnesota, MN, USA
Masonic Institute for the Developing Brain of the University of Minnesota
Advisor: Prof. Damien Fair
Nov 2017 - Aug 2021
PhD Candidate
University of Tübingen, Germany
fMEG Center/Institute for Diabetes Research and Metabolic Diseases (IDM) of the Helmholtz Center Munich at the University of Tübingen
Advisor: Prof. Hubert Preißl
Feb 2016 - Oct 2017
Student Research assistant
University of Tübingen, Germany
fMEG Center/Institute for Diabetes Research and Metabolic Diseases (IDM) of the Helmholtz Center Munich at the University of Tübingen
Advisor: Prof. Hubert Preißl
Dec 2011 - Jun 2015
Student Research assistant
University of Konstanz, Germany
Faculty of General- and Biopschology, University of Konstanz
Advisor: Prof. Harald Schupp
Sep 2013 - Mar 2014
Intern
University of Florida, FL, USA
Center for the Study of Emotion and Attention, University of Florida, USA
Advisor: Dr. Margaret Bradley
Education
Oct 2021
University of Tübingen
PhD
Summa Cum Laude
Tübingen, Germany
PhD in Neural and Behavioural Sciences
Thesis: "Magnetoencephalographic Signatures of Complex Cognitive Abilities in Fetuses and Newborns"
Advisor: Prof. Hubert Preißl
Sep 2017
University of Tübingen
M. Sc.
Final Grade: 1.2
Tübingen, Germany
M.Sc. in Neural and Behavioral Sciences, University of Tübingen Thesis: “Quantifying Information in the Developing Brain - A fMEG study”
Advisor: Prof. Hubert Preißl
Jul 2015
University of Konstanz
B.Sc.
Final Grade: 1.2
Konstanz, Germany
B.Sc. in Psychology
Thesis: "Processing of Emotional Sciences – A psychophysiological Study"
Advisor: Prof. Harald Schupp
Awards and Scholarships
2022 FIT’NG Young Investigator Award (Fetal, Infant, & Toddler Neuroimaging Group)
2022 – Walter Benjamin Fellowship awarded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) - 24 months full stipend for conducting a research project at the University of Minnesota
2021 – JSPS International Fellowships for Research in Japan at the Institute of Development, Aging and Cancer (IDAC), Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan – resigned due to COVID-19 travel restrictions
2020 – Poster prize of Flux pre-congress workshop: “FIT’NG together with NIH HBCD and ABCD: Important Considerations in the Age of Multisite Early Childhood Imaging Studies” (100$)
2020 – DAAD short term scholarship for doctoral students for conducting re- search project at Yale Magnetic Resonance Research Center in New Haven, USA. – resigned due to COVID-19 situation
2019 – Jacob’s Foundation Science of Learning Symposium travel award (1000$) for presenting at Flux conference in New York City, USA.
2019 – DAAD “Kongressreisen” scholarship for attending Flux conference in New York City, USA.
2016 – Placement on the Dean’s list of the Graduate Training Center of Neuroscience
2013/2014 – DAAD PROMOS travel scholarship for internship at University of Florida Gainesville, Florida, USA