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Curriculum vitae
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 duties
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
Research interests
Data Science, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
Neuroimaging, Neurofeedback, Brain-Computer-Interfaces, Neurotechnology
Mental Health, Digital Health, Computational Psychiatry
Coaffiliations
Lab Homepage: https://meth-psy.univie.ac.at/
Special qualifications and skills
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:
Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
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Hyperfeedback: Syncing brains to improve human interaction
1/04/23 → 31/03/26
Project: Research funding
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KI-Expositionstherapeut*in für Angststörungen
Melinšcak, F. & Scharnowski, F.
1/03/23 → 28/02/26
Project: Research funding
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Jointly Optimized Allocation of Functionality in Systems of Systems
Scharnowski, F., Steyrl, D. & Melinšcak, F.
1/11/21 → 31/10/24
Project: Research cooperation
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Cross-Cultural Comparison of Beauty Judgments in Visual Art Using Machine Learning Analysis of Art Attribute Predictors Among Japanese and German Speakers
Mikuni, J., Spee, B. T. M., Forlani, G., Leder, H., Scharnowski, F., Nakamura, K., Watanabe, K., Kawabata, H., Pelowski, M. & Steyrl, D., 10 Jul 2024, In: Scientific Reports. 14, 1, 14 p., 15948.Publications: Contribution to journal › Article › Peer Reviewed
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Enhanced attention-related alertness following right anterior insular cortex neurofeedback training
Popovova, J., Mazloum, R., Macauda, G., Stämpfli, P., Vuilleumier, P., Frühholz, S., Scharnowski, F., Menon, V. & Michels, L., 16 Feb 2024, In: Iscience. 27, 2, p. 108915 108915.Publications: Contribution to journal › Article › Peer Reviewed
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SpiDa-MRI, behavioral and (f)MRI data of adults with fear of spiders
Zhang, M., Karner, A., Kostorz, K., Shea, S., Steyrl, D., Melinšcak, F., Sladky, R., Lor, C. & Scharnowski, F., 7 Feb 2024, bioRxiv.Publications: Working paper › Preprint
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Interpretable machine learning for hypothesis
David Steyrl (Speaker), Alexander Karner (Speaker), Blanca Thea Maria Spee (Speaker) & Frank Scharnowski (Speaker)
16 Sept 2024 → 24 Sept 2024Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
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Enhancing Hypothesis Testing via Interpretable Machine Learning Frameworks
David Steyrl (Speaker), Alexander Karner (Speaker), Blanca Thea Maria Spee (Speaker) & Frank Scharnowski (Speaker)
25 Jun 2024 → 29 Jun 2024Activity: Talks and presentations › Poster presentation › Science to Science
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Using multidimensional scaling and convolutional neural networks to probe mental representations of complex images
Mengfan Zhang (Selected presenter), Dominik Pegler (Contributor), Frank Scharnowski (Contributor) & Filip Melinšcak (Contributor)
19 Jul 2023Activity: Talks and presentations › Poster presentation › Science to Science
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