Guided by the aim to improve health care for over 75 mio. people covered by public (statutory) health insurance in Germany: - Medical senior policy advisor for evidence based medicine and innovations- Methods evaluation in the Federal Joint Committee (Gemeinsamer Bundesausschuss)

I have founded the Applied Computational Neuroscience (ACN) research group and led the group full-time until June 2024. Since July 2024, I still lead the group part-time and supervise Ph.D. and M.D. (Dr. med.) students. We focus on neurotechnology and algorithmic approaches that aim to predict disease trajectories in mental health and neurology. We develop protocols for brain-computer interfaces (neurofeedback training) and explore the clinical potential of mobile and digital health tools in mental health.

Independent and collaborative investigation of multimodal, longitudinal data sets in affective disorders.

OHBM is the primary organization for neuroimaging in humans. As part of the Media team I blog about neuroimaging research and also conduct interviews. Posts appear on Medium, the blogs of OHBM and the Scientific American.

Scientific R&D consulting for Neurotechnology companies.

Associate Editor in Clinical Psychology and Neuroimaging.

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My PhD focused on clinical applications of real-time fMRI neurofeedback training in Depression, as well as for motor rehabilitation (stroke and Parkinson's disease). Recently, we have published one of the first randomised controlled trials (RCT) in the field: https://goo.gl/69pQRYThe trial was highlighted on the blog of the National Centre for Mental Health: https://goo.gl/u4RzFj. More information about the background, clinical implications and future directions can be found in this interview with the Cognitive Neuroscience Society: https://goo.gl/CekVFH. Besides depression, I am also interested in motor rehabilitation. Recently, we have compared different target areas in healthy participants, using a new paradigm (graded fMRI neurofeedback training): https://goo.gl/HMiohe These results have been translated into a protocol for ischemic stroke patients, which has been preregistered one the Open Science Framework: https://osf.io/y69jc/ For an overview of psychiatric applications, see also attached paper "Neurofeedback: One of today's techniques in Psychiatry".

Simultaneous EEG-fMRI in motor neurofeedback training.

The project involved the calibration of a new 3DOF robotic manipulandum, a pilot study to characterize natural movements of participants, and studies on learning mechanisms (use-dependent learning and reinforcement learning). We were able to show that the motor system is sensitive to its output variability and can optimize joint-space solutions that minimize task-relevant output variability. We also discuss applications for stroke motor rehabilitation.

Assisted in the data acquisition and analysis of a series of Magnetencephalography (MEG) studies about neurogenic dysphagia, working with stroke, multiple system atrophy, and Parkinson's disease patients.

This internship was on brain systems of associative learning processes supervised by Prof Peter Holland. The project involved a behavioural study on Pavlonian-instrumental transfer in rats and immunohistological processing of brain slices to determine the expression levels of immediate early genes as a marker of neuroplasticity.

Seasonal neurogenesis in canary birds - neurohormonal control mechanisms and histological correlates