News 2024

We congratulate Dr. Frauke Heins on successfully defending her thesis "Post-saccadic feedback signals in oculomotor learning" at the Institute of Psychology. The thesis was supervised by Prof. Dr. Markus Lappe, Dr. Christian Wolf and Prof. Dr. Annalisa Bosco (University of Bologna).

Our next speaker in the OCC Colloquium Series in the winter semester 2024-25 is Prof. Dr. Johannes Felsenberg from the Friedrich Miescher Instiute for Biomedical Research, Basel
 

• Time: November 06, 2024, 4:15 p.m.
• Location: Multiscale Imaging Centre, Röntgenstraße 16, Auditorium

Our first speaker in the OCC Colloquium Series in the winter semester 2024-25 is Prof. Dr. Rasha Abdel Rahman from the Humboldt-University Berlin
 

• Time: October 16, 2024, 4:15 p.m.
• Location: Multiscale Imaging Centre, Röntgenstraße 16, Auditorium

We congratulate Dr. Anna-Gesina Hülemeier on successfully defending her thesis "Visual perception of the optic flow and biological motion during locomotion" at the Institute of Psychology. The thesis was supervised by Prof. Dr. Markus Lappe, Prof. Dr. Niko Busch and Prof. Dr. Benjamin Risse.

Our last speaker in the OCC Colloquium Series in the summer semester 2024 is Prof. Dr. Bassem Hassan from the Paris Brain Institute
 

• Time: July 17, 2024, 4:15 p.m.
• Location: Multiscale Imaging Centre, Röntgenstraße 16, Auditorium

Our next speaker in the OCC Colloquium Series in the summer semester 2024 is Prof. Dr. Jorge Sepulcre from the Yale School of Medicine
 

• Time: July 08, 2024 (Monday!!), 4:15 p.m.
• Location: Zoom Meeting – Registration Required (occinfo@uni-muenster.de)

In our OCC PhD Program we welcome Taravat Anvari. Her research is based on the contexts "Passion for state-of-the-art technology in Pose Estimation, Virtual Reality (VR), the interaction of Vision with actions, Machine Learning, Character Animation, and Human-computer Interaction" The project is supervised by OCC members Prof. Dr. Markus Lappe and Priv. Doz. Dr. Marc H.E. de Lussanet de la Sablonière. The PhD Committee is completed by Prof. Dr. Frank Steinicke, University of Hamburg, Germany
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Our next speaker in the OCC Colloquium Series in the summer semester 2024 is Prof. Dr. Mitja Back, University Münster
 

• Time: July 03, 2024 (Wed.), 4:15 p.m.
• Location: Multiscale Imaging Centre Röntgenstraße 16 Auditorium

Our next speaker in the OCC Colloquium Series in the summer semester 2024 is Prof. Dr. Alexander Schütz, Philipps-Universität Marburg
 

• Time: June 19, 2024 (Wed.), 4:15 p.m.
• Location: Multiscale Imaging Centre Röntgenstraße 16 Auditorium

We welcome Robert Stojan from the Institute of Sport and Exercise Sciences as a new member of the Otto Creutzfeldt Center in 2024.

Robert Stopjan works on questions about

• Virtual Reality to Investigate Everyday Like Motor-Cognitive Behaviour
• Functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy (fNIRS)
• Neurocognition and Aging
• Parkinson’s Disease and Freezing of Gait

We welcome Nils Winter from the Institute for Translational Psychiatry as a new member of the Otto Creutzfeldt Center in 2024.

Nils Winter says about his work:

"I have a background in psychology, with specializations in cognitive neuroscience and clinical psychology. Early in my academic journey, I developed a fascination with computer science, machine learning, and artificial intelligence. As a researcher, I enjoy exploring the interplay between these fields, using statistical modeling and machine learning techniques to investigate and address questions related to mental disorders."

In our OCC PhD Program we welcome Martina Saltafossi. Her research is based on the contexts  "Recent research has unveiled the profound influence of respiration on behavior and neural activity, suggesting it acts as a clock mechanism aligning behavior with brain dynamics. These findings open up intriguing avenues for understanding the translational implications of fundamental research in clinical contexts." The project is supervised by OCC members Prof. Dr. Joachim Gross and Prof. Dr. Markus Lappe. The PhD Committee is completed by Dr. Daniel Kluger.

We congratulate Dr. Olga Holtmann on successfully defending her thesis "The role of the insular cortex in emotional processing: Evidence from a multi-dimensional lesion-based approach" at the Institute of Medical Psychology and Systems Neuroscience. The thesis was supervised by Prof. Dr. Thomas Straube, apl. Prof. Dr. Jens Bölte and Prof. Dr. Pienie Zwitserlood.

We welcome Thomas Kroker from the Institute of Biomagnetism and Biosignalanalysis as a new member of the Otto Creutzfeldt Center in 2024.

Thomas Kroker works on questions about

• Reward processing
• Learning
• Fear generalization

We welcome Jan Ernsting from the Institute of Geoinformatics as a new member of the Otto Creutzfeldt Center in 2024.