Team

Implementation of the cICMs project involves an interdisciplinary team of researchers with diffferent backgrounds and expertise. All team members contribute outstanding skills in important specialized areas and have proven capable of interdisciplinary work, creating high synergy for the success of the project.

Principal investigator

Andreas K. Engel
Head of Department
Professor of Neurophysiology
MD, Doctorate in Medicine

Expertise: EEG/MEG studies, in-vivo neurophysiology, cognitive neuroscience

Involvement: all studies of the project

Team members

Friederike Axmann – until 09/26
PhD student
MSc in Behavioral and Cognitive Neurosciences

Expertise:
in-vivo neurophysiology, optogenetics

Involvement:
recording and analysis of ferret data, optogenetic studies

Rebecca Burke
PhD student
MSc in Psychology

Expertise:
EEG/MEG studies, tACS studies

Involvement:
recording and analysis of EEG/MEG data, tACS studies

Yuchuan Dai
Postdoctoral researcher
PhD in Engineering

Expertise:
in-vivo neurophysiology

Involvement:
recording and analysis of ferret data, optogenetic studies

Edgar Galindo-Leon
Postdoctoral researcher
PhD in Physics

Expertise:
in-vivo neurophysiology, modeling

Involvement:
coupling analyses and information-theoretic analyses of ferret data

Marina Gollmer — until 06/26
Postdoctoral researcher
PhD in Psychology

Expertise:
EEG studies, tACS studies

Involvement:
recording and analysis of EEG/MEG data, tACS studies

Loren Kocillari
Postdoctoral researcher
PhD in Physics

Expertise:
information theory

Involvement:
information-theoretic analysis of ferret datasets

Alexander Maye
Research group leader
PhD in Informatics

Expertise:
analysis and modeling of electrophysiological data

Involvement:
scale-bridging modeling of ferret datasets

Jonas Misselhorn
Postdoctoral researcher
PhD in Neuroscience

Expertise:
EEG studies, tACS studies

Involvement:
recording and analysis of EEG/MEG data, tACS studies

Guido Nolte
Research group leader
PhD in Physics

Expertise:
methods for connectivity analyses in EEG/MEG data

Involvement:
development of novel methods for coupling analysis

Florian Pieper
Postdoctoral researcher
PhD in Biology

Expertise:
in-vivo neurophysiology, optogenetics

Involvement:
recording of ferret data, optogenetic studies

Mahmoud Rezaei 
Postdoctoral researcher
PhD in Physiology

Expertise:
in-vivo neurophysiology

Involvement:
recording of ferret data, optogenetic studies

Marcus Siems
Postdoctoral researcher
PhD in Neuroscience

Expertise:
EEG/MEG studies, connectivity analysis

Involvement:
recording and analysis of EEG/MEG data, tACS studies

Till Schneider
Research group leader
PhD in Psychology

Expertise:
EEG/MEG studies, source space analysis

Involvement:
EEG/MEG studies, tACS studies

Malte Sengelmann
Biomedical engineer
M.Sc. in Engineering

Expertise:
programming, electronics, circuit development

Involvement:
approaches for neurostimulation

Cooperation partners

The project involves close cooperation with two renowned scientists who contribute specific expertise: Prof. Stefano Panzeri from the ZMNH at UKE, who is an expert in information-theoretic approaches and computational modeling of neural network dynamics, and Prof. Simon Wiegert from University of Heidelberg, who is an expert in the development and application of optogenetic tools.

Stefano Panzeri
Professor of Neural Information Processing

Head of Department of Excellence for Neural Information Processing
Center for Molecular Neurobiology Hamburg (ZMNH)

Simon Wiegert
Professor of Neurophysiology

Head of Department of Neurophysiology
Medical Faculty Mannheim of the University Heidelberg