About Me

I am a biologist studying individual differences in behavior and (neuro)physiology in a ubiquitous primate species - Homo sapiens. As a member of the EEGManyLabs core team I work on advancing Open Science and creating one of the largest corpora of EEG data to date. As a PhD student in the VisNA Lab (then at Max-Planck-Institute for Empirical Aesthetics) I studied how visual aesthetic preferences interact with other high-level cognitive processes such as reward processing, engagement, or creativity and insight. In previous positions I have worked on brain-computer interfaces (decoding observed errors from EEG, for my MSc at University of Freiburg) or biomimetics (morphology of functional plant surfaces, for my BSc at University of Bonn).

I collect multimodal data - behavioral reponses or observations together with EEG and eye tracking, sometimes along with other peripheral physiology (ECG, EMG etc). As I fancy research tech more generally, I also have some experience with intracranial EEG, DBS, fNIRS, fMRI, motion capturing, facial emotion tracking etc. as well as slice physiology, patch-clamp, (opto)genetics, electron/fluorescence/light microscopy etc. in the more hardcore biology realms. I am also interested in meta-science and part of the open science movement. I integrated best practice thinking, power analysis, preregistrations, replication efforts and preprints into my research workflow. I contribute to FOSS code bases, mainly in the MNE-Python ecosystem.