Persönliches Profil
Lebenslauf
01/2019 – present
Full Professor at the Department of Cognition, Emotion, and Methods in Psychology,
Faculty of Psychology, University of Vienna, Austria
10/2015 – 12/2018
Assistant Professor at the Psychiatric Hospital, University of Zürich, Switzerland
01/2011 – 09/2015
Senior Lecturer at the University of Geneva and the Swiss Institute of Technology, Lausanne, Switzerland
01/2008 – 01/2011
Senior Fellow at the Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging and the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, UCL University College London, UK
08/2004 – 12/2007
Brain Mind Institute, Swiss Institute of Technology Lausanne, Switzerland
PhD in Life Sciences
01/2002 – 03/2004
International Max Planck Research School in Tübingen, Germany
M.Sc. in Neural and Behavioural Sciences with honours
2000
University of Ulster, UK
School of computing and mathematics
12/1998 – 12/2001
International program Cognitive-Science in Osnabrück, Germany
B.Sc. in Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science with honours
Administrative Aufgaben
since 10/2020, Vienna, Austria
Head of the Department of Cognition, Emotion, and Methods in Psychology at the Faculty of Psychology
05/2020 - 05/2022, Vienna, Austria
Vice-Director of the Study Program at the Faculty of Psychology
04/2020 - 04/2022, Vienna, Austria
Spokesman of the Professors at the Faculty of Psychology
since 01/2020, Vienna, Austria
Member of the scientific advisory board of the outpatient unit at the Faculty of Psychology
2017 & 2018, Zürich, Switzerland
Organizer of the 1st and 2nd Brainhack Zürich: Open tools for reproducible neuroscience
03/2016 – 12/2018, Zürich, Switzerland
Head of the research domain Translational Neuroimaging Methods of the Psychiatric University Hospital Zürich
11/2015 – 12/2018, Zürich, Switzerland
Member of the Medical Board of Directors of the Psychiatric University Hospital Zürich
Forschungsinteressen
Data Science, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
Neuroimaging, Neurofeedback, Brain-Computer-Interfaces, Neurotechnology
Mental Health, Digital Health, Computational Psychiatry
Assoziierte Einrichtungen
Lab Homepage: https://meth-psy.univie.ac.at/
Besondere Qualifikationen und Kenntnisse
I heard that mobility broadens your horizons. So I moved around. I moved a lot. Since the beginning of my studies I have moved more than 20 times, lived/worked in more than 10 cities and shared flats with more than 40 flatmates, some of whom were originally from Alaska to Zimbabwe. Here is my roadmap:
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Kooperationen und Spitzenforschungsbereiche der letzten fünf Jahre
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AI-Enhanced XR Therapy: Virtual Solutions for Mental Health
Scharnowski, F. (Projektleiter*in) & Steyrl, D. (Co-Projektleiter*in)
1/12/25 → 30/11/28
Projekt: Forschungskooperation
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Hyperfeedback: Syncing brains to improve human interaction
Kostorz, K. (Projektleiter*in) & Scharnowski, F. (Mentor*in)
1/04/23 → 31/12/26
Projekt: Forschungsförderung
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KI-Expositionstherapeut*in für Angststörungen
Melinšcak, F. (Projektleiter*in) & Scharnowski, F. (Co-Projektleiter*in)
1/03/23 → 28/02/26
Projekt: Forschungsförderung
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Unpacking Interpretability: Human-Centered Criteria for Optimal Combinatorial Solutions
Pegler, D., Jäkel, F., Steyrl, D., Scharnowski, F. & Melinšcak, F., 9 März 2026.Veröffentlichungen: Working Paper › Preprint
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Contributions of the default mode and central executive networks during posterior cingulate cortex-targeted fMRI neurofeedback in PTSD
Lieberman, J. M. (Korresp. Autor*in), Lanius, R. A., Densmore, M., Théberge, J., Rabellino, D., Frewen, P. A., Scharnowski, F., Jetly, R., Frey, B. N., Hosseiny, F., Ros, T. & Nicholson, A. A. (Korresp. Autor*in), 12 Nov. 2025, in: NeuroImage: Clinical. 48, 18 S., 103891.Veröffentlichungen: Beitrag in Fachzeitschrift › Artikel › Peer Reviewed
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Investigating short windows of interbrain synchrony: A step toward fNIRS-based hyperfeedback
Kostorz, K., Nguyen, T., Pan, Y., Melinscak, F., Steyrl, D., Hu, Y., Sorger, B., Hoehl, S. & Scharnowski, F., 17 Juni 2025, in: Imaging Neuroscience. 3, IMAG.a.43.Veröffentlichungen: Beitrag in Fachzeitschrift › Artikel › Peer Reviewed
Open Access
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Similarity-Based Modeling of Exposure Stimulus Intensity
Melinšcak, F. (Selected presenter), Zhang, M. (Autor*in), Karner, A. (Autor*in) & Scharnowski, F. (Autor*in)
15 Juli 2025Aktivität: Vorträge › Posterpräsentation › Science to Science
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Cognitive and neural similarity representations of spider stimuli in arachnophobia
Zhang, M. (Selected presenter), Kostorz, K. (Autor*in), Melinšcak, F. (Autor*in) & Scharnowski, F. (Autor*in)
25 Juni 2025Aktivität: Vorträge › Posterpräsentation › Science to Science
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Interpretable machine learning for hypothesis
Steyrl, D. (Vortragende*r), Karner, A. (Vortragende*r), Spee, B. T. M. (Vortragende*r) & Scharnowski, F. (Vortragende*r)
16 Sept. 2024 → 24 Sept. 2024Aktivität: Vorträge › Vortrag › Science to Science