Personal profile

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

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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