Education and professional history

Since 08.2017: Postdoc at the Department of Basic Psychological Research and Research Methods, Vienna, Austria (PI: Prof. Ulrich Ansorge)

2015-2017:       Postdoc at the Auditory Cognitive Neuroscience Lab, UCL Ear Institute, London, UK (PI: Prof. Maria Chait)

2009-2014:       PhD student at the Multisensory Integration Group (PI: Prof. Daniel Senkowski; graduated with magna cum laude)

2011-2014:       Department of Psychiatry, Charité Berlin, Germany

2009-2011:       Department of Neurophysiology, UKE Hamburg, Germany

2007-2008:       9-month stay at the Lab of Prof. Canan Basar-Eroglu, University of Bremen, Germany

2003-2009:       Study of Psychology (Diploma, graduation w. honors), University of Vienna, Austria

Grants and Travel Awards                                                                                                                                                                    

2016:                Association for Research in Otolaryngology (ARO) travel grant 

2016:                Action on Hearing Loss travel grant

2015:                Organization for Computational Neuroscience travel grant, fully funding a 3-week

workshop in the USA

2008:                Research scholarship from the University of Vienna (support for conducting my diploma thesis abroad)

2007 + 2008:    Erasmus stipend

Additional Training                                                                                                                                                                    

2016:                4-day workshop on advanced data analysis and source modelling of EEG and MEG data, Nijmegen, Netherlands

2015:                3-week workshop on Neuromorphic Engineering and Machine Learning, Telluride,                      USA

2012:                3-day transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) workshop, Jena, Germany

2008:                7-day workshop on fMRI (study design, recording, analysis), Bremen, Germany

2007, 2009:      1 week interdisciplinary spring school on Cognitive Science, Günne, Germany

Teaching and Supervision                                                                                                                                                                    

2017:                MSc Seminar ‘Mind and Brain: Neural Oscillations’, University of Vienna, Austria

2017:                Supervision of a MSc student (Robert Jagiello, UCL, MSc in Advanced Neuroimaging. Thesis title: ‘Music familiarity and preference, measured with EEG and pupilometry’)

2016, 2017:      Journal club for MSc in Neuroscience students, UCL

2016:                Supervision of 2 highschool students during their 2-week placement at university (in2science program)

2016:                Supervision of a MSc student (Zaira Curetti, UCL, MSc in Advanced Neuroimaging.

Thesis title: ‘Encoding, maintenance, and retrieval of auditory scenes’)

2014:                Supervision of a MSc student (Jana Brinker, FU Berlin, Social, Cognitive and

Affective Neuroscience. Thesis title: ‘Multisensory processing of naturalistic stimuli –

investigating the redundant target effect with a smartphone’)

2012-2013:       Seminar on Learning and Memory, Medical University, Berlin, Germany

2009-2010:       EEG hands-on training, Medical University, Hamburg, Germany

2007-2008:       Tutor at the Department of Psychology, University of Bremen, Germany

2006-2007:       Tutor at the Department of Philosophy, University of Vienna, Austria

Additional Experience                                                                                                                                                                     

2017:                Public engagement via the BBCs ‘Science in Action’ radio program (link)

2017:                Public engagement via InsightTVs  ‘Secrets of the Brain’ TV show: Measuring and

discussing the emotional effect of music on the brain (to be aired in late 2017 link)

2016:                Public engagement via The Guardian’s ‘Brain Waves’ video series: Measuring and discussing the emotional effect of music on the brain in professional musicians (link)

2011-2012:       Support of Prof. Senkowski in setting up a state-of-the-art EEG laboratory at the Charité, Berlin (including a 128-channel EEG system, a soundproof electrically shielded recording booth, a TMS, an eyetracker and a piezoelectric tactile stimulator)

Research Interests                                                                                                                                                                     

Attention, multisensory processing and integration, perception (auditory, visual and somatosensory), temporal orienting

Peer Reviewing Activities                                                                                                                                                                    

Neuroimage

Journal of Neurophysiology

European Journal of Neuroscience

BMC Neuroscience

Attention, multisensory processing and integration, perception (auditory, visual and somatosensory), temporal orienting