Berlin School of Mind and Brain

30/11/2022

*CALL FOR APPLICATIONS*

Applications for the M&B Doctoral Program 2023 will open on Thursday 1 December 2022!
Application Deadline: 15 January 2023.
More information: http://www.mind-and-brain.de/doctoral-program/application

16/10/2022

Two open student RA positions on the topic of the self at the interface between cognitive neuroscience and psychiatry, working in a collegial and interdisciplinary team with methods as diverse as eye tracking, ECG, EEG and VR. Ideally you have a background in experimental psychology and prior statistical training.
Application deadline: 19 October 2022
Please contact Laura.Kaltwasser(at) hu-berlin.de

15/06/2022

Autismus und die Pandemie: Betroffene berichten, wie sie sich fühlen. | HU Berlin

Dr. Mareike Bayer und Silke Lipinski (MA) erforschen in ihrer Forschungsgruppe an der Humboldt - Universität zu Berlin die bio-psycho-sozialen Mechanismen sozialer Interaktion und deren Störungen. Sie verwenden Methoden der experimentellen Psychologie und der Neurowissenschaften, um kognitive und emotionale Prozesse zu untersuchen, die unserer Interaktion und Kommunikation mit Anderen zugrunde liegen. Insbesondere geht es dabei auch um die mentale Gesundheit von Menschen im Autismus-Spektrum sowie bei nicht-autistischen Personen in der COVID-19-Pandemie.

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17/05/2022

The M&B Alumni Talks are back!

Kick-off: Thursday 23 June 2022, 18.00 – 19.30 with Lyudmyla Kovalenko (Cohort 2012) and Christian Ebbesen (Cohort 2013)

Venue: Berlin School of Mind and Brain, Luisenstraße 56, Haus 1, Room 144 (ground floor)

Program
18.00-18:30 Lyudmyla Kovalenko
18:30-19:00 Christian Ebbesen
19:00-19:30 Joint Q&A and discussion
19:30 - open end Drinks at Café Flora on our campus (House 19)

At this event, Lyudmyla Kovalenko and Christian Ebbesen will share with you their experience after the doctorate and, in both cases, of moving from academia into the private sector.

They will also touch upon topics such as, what to consider when building your CV or building a network, how to deal with (self)doubt when you set out to pursue a career outside academia ("how can I apply my skills from the PhD in "the real world") and, finally, what training or transferable skills were most helpful once they left M&B.

Lyudmyla Kovalenko (Cohort 2012)
Doctoral project: "The temporal interplay of vision and eye movements"

Lyudmyla Kovalenko did her PhD in visual cognition, using EEG and eye tracking. After her PhD, Lyudmyla worked as a strategy consultant at Siemens Management Consulting and Strategy& (PwC), where she helped pharma, big tech, chipmakers, utilities companies and other clients develop strategy, build new businesses and optimize organizations.
Since 2022, Lyudmyla is the founder and CEO of a "smart food" startup and is currently working on building her team, scaling production and preparing for a market launch.

Christian L. Ebbesen (Cohort 2013)
Doctoral Project: "Cortical circuits underlying social and spatial exploration in rats"

Christian Ebbesen is a Deep Learning Specialist in Data Science at Lundbeck A/S. In his work, he uses artificial intelligence to discover and develop new ways to support and restore brain health.
After his PhD, Christian was a postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Robert Froemke at the NYU Neuroscience Institute and the Skirball Institute of Biomolecular Medicine, where he worked on the oxytocin system and used a combination of experimental and computational methods to map complex, cortical receptive fields during social behavior in mice.

After the talk, we will move to a student café on our campus for a more informal exchange. Please pay for you own (inexpensive) drinks.
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16/05/2022

Still a few days left to apply! 3yr DAAD PhD Scholarship for the doctoral program at the Berlin School of Mind and Brain!

***Call for applications - one 3-year DAAD PhD Scholarship***

One three-year DAAD doctoral scholarship is available for international candidates wishing to participate in the doctoral program of the Berlin School of Mind and Brain. (An extension of 2 x 6 months may be possible.)

Please note:
Eligibility rules for the DAAD-funded doctoral scholarship:

At the time when the DAAD receives the nomination letter from the Berlin School of Mind and Brain (30 June 2022), the last final exam (Master's degree or equivalent) of the student must not have taken place longer than six years ago.

At the time when DAAD receives the nomination letter from the Berlin School of Mind and Brain (30 June 2022), applicants must not have resided in Germany for more than 15 months (i.e., not before April 2021).

The total value of the scholarship comes to:
- scholarship payments of monthly € 1,200 per month, for three years;
- travel allowance to and from Germany;
- payments towards health, accident and personal liability insurance cover;
- a research allowance of € 460 resp. € 230 (from developed countries) per year;
under certain circumstances, grant holders may receive the following additional benefits such as monthly rent subsidy, monthly allowance for accompanying family members (about € 200 child allowance per child and about € 275 marriage allowance);
- a German language course (if desired and possible with respect to the starting date of the scholarship);
- a material resource and supervision allowance of currently € 1,000 per year, which is paid upon application to the host institution/supervisors.

Deadline: 22 May 2022, 23:59:59 CET

Requirements and application details here:
http://www.mind-and-brain.de/doctoral-program/application/daad-scholarship/

11/05/2022

Congratulations to M&B alumna Esra Al on receiving a Walter Benjamin Postdoc Fellowship from the DFG for her proposal to
investigate the impact of bodily and neural oscillations on perception using intracranial recordings! The project will be supervised by Dr. Saskia Haegens at Columbia University.

If you want to know more about Esra's work, please visit https://www.esraal.com/

More about the Walter Benjamin Program: https://www.dfg.de/en/research_funding/programmes/individual/walter_benjamin/index.html

(Photo: private)

04/05/2022

Meet M&B faculty member and founding director of BIH Quest Center Prof. Ulrich Dirnagl on board the MS Wissenschaft
tomorrow, Thursday 5 May, 6:30 PM
Read more here: !https://www.bihealth.org/de/aktuelles/das-bih-auf-der-ms-wissenschaft
and here: https://ms-wissenschaft.de/de/ausstellung/tour-2022/berlin/

MS-Wissenschaft

03/05/2022

Congratulations to M&B alumna Laurel Raffington on heading the new Max Planck Research Group “Biosocial” !

Starting in May 2022, the group will explore questions such as

- How do childhood experiences tied to social disparities get under the skin to shape the course of health and education inequalities across the life span?
- What are the behavioral cascades through which genetic differences between children get out of the skin?
- How does parenting affect child health and educational performance, controlling for genetic inheritance?
- How do systems of social inequality impose constraints on the phenotypic expression of genetic differences between people?

Read more here: https://www.mpib-berlin.mpg.de/research/research-groups/mprg-biosocial

(Photo: MPIB/private)

29/04/2022

Next Thursday: 5 May 2022, 16-17:30
PI lecture w. Michael Pauen (M&B and SCIoI faculty)

Venue: SCIoI, TU Berlin, Marchstr. 23, Room 2.057.

More information: https://scienceofintelligence.de/event/pi-lecture-with-michael-pauen/

(Photo: Felix Noak)

27/04/2022

Congratulations to M&B Associate Researcher and SFB1315 Speaker Matthew Larkum on receiving an ERC Advanced Grant for his work on Dendro-somatic coupling and global neuronal signaling!

Larkum's research group at the Institute of Biology will look at the basis of anesthesia in the brains of mammals, including humans. To that end, it will receive 2.5 million euros in funding over a five-year period.

Matthew Larkum has been a professor at Humboldt University since 2011. His research focuses on understanding the cerebral cortex. Anesthesia is arguably one of mankind's greatest discoveries. But although it has been used as a medical procedure for nearly two centuries, it is not yet fully understood how it works. Researchers still do not understand exactly how a substance can selectively turn off consciousness while leaving normal nervous system function intact. Solving this problem will not only be a tremendous help in understanding and improving anesthesia, but also promises to provide insights into consciousness itself - one of the last frontiers of neuroscience.

Link to ERC press release: https://europa.eu/!fym6VP

22/04/2022

M&B faculty member Marcel Brass is among the keynote speakers at the KogWis2022 - Understanding Minds at the Center for Cognitive Sciences , University of Freiburg from 5 to 7 September 2022.

The theme “Understanding Minds” reflects two perspectives: The conference provides a forum for all topics in the study of how minds – both human and artificial – operate. The theme also puts a specific spotlight on how cognitive systems make sense of the world, in particular in language comprehension and communication.

More information here: https://www.kogwis2022.uni-freiburg.de/

19/04/2022

***Call for applications - one 3-year DAAD PhD Scholarship***

One three-year DAAD doctoral scholarship is available for international candidates wishing to participate in the doctoral program of the Berlin School of Mind and Brain. (An extension of 2 x 6 months may be possible.)

Please note:
Eligibility rules for the DAAD-funded doctoral scholarship:

At the time when the DAAD receives the nomination letter from the Berlin School of Mind and Brain (30 June 2022), the last final exam (Master's degree or equivalent) of the student must not have taken place longer than six years ago.

At the time when DAAD receives the nomination letter from the Berlin School of Mind and Brain (30 June 2022), applicants must not have resided in Germany for more than 15 months (i.e., not before April 2021).

The total value of the scholarship comes to:
- scholarship payments of monthly € 1,200 per month, for three years;
- travel allowance to and from Germany;
- payments towards health, accident and personal liability insurance cover;
- a research allowance of € 460 resp. € 230 (from developed countries) per year;
under certain circumstances, grant holders may receive the following additional benefits such as monthly rent subsidy, monthly allowance for accompanying family members (about € 200 child allowance per child and about € 275 marriage allowance);
- a German language course (if desired and possible with respect to the starting date of the scholarship);
- a material resource and supervision allowance of currently € 1,000 per year, which is paid upon application to the host institution/supervisors.

Deadline: 22 May 2022, 23:59:59 CET

Requirements and application details here:
http://www.mind-and-brain.de/doctoral-program/application/daad-scholarship/