I have a Bachelor's degree in Physics from Goethe University Frankfurt am Main and a Bachelor's degree in Psychology from Justus Liebig University Giessen. I completed my Master's degree in integrative neuroscience at Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg. In my master's thesis, I worked in the Multimodal Neuroimaging Lab to investigate the extent to which functional MRI signal fluctuations differ across the Alzheimer's spectrum in the resting state. I am currently a PhD student in the SynAGE doctoral program and am gaining my first experience with a working memory experiment in EEG. In general, I am interested in multimodal applications in ageing and Alzheimer's research and the extent to which physiological processes complement neuronal activity. In my free time I do a lot of sport (mainly running) and enjoy playing board or computer games with my friends.

I am a PhD student in the research training group 2413 SynAGE, which conducts interdisciplinary research on healthy neurocognitive ageing. I use task-based and resting-state fMRI to study how brain activation and connectivity change with aging and early Alzheimer's pathology. My research focuses on the medial temporal lobe and the posteromedial cortex, key regions for episodic memory that are particularly vulnerable to early pathology. In collaboration with Jenna Adams and Mike Yassa at the University of California, Irvine, I am currently exploring the impact of early tau burden on hippocampal subfield connectivity.

In autumn 2022, I received my master's degree in psychology with distinction in the field of cognitive neuroscience from Otto von Guericke University of Magdeburg. During my studies, I gained experience with MR-based memory experiments at the department of behavioural neurology at the Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology in Magdeburg and during a research stay at the University of Cambridge. I am a volunteer paramedic and enjoy giving first aid trainings, I also love to eat blueberry ice cream.

Did someone say Nuclear Medicine? As a physician working both in the clinic and in research, being formally in love with neuroplasticity, I gladly provide radioactive-based in vivo brain imaging. My current work takes place at the DZNE Magdeburg as well as in the Clinic for Radiology & Nuclear Medicine at the Universitätsklinikum, and mainly consists of performing PET/MR or PET/CT studies with different radiotracers to investigate the normal course of neurodegenerative diseases, what healthy aging means, as well as the functional effects of potential disease-modifying strategies.

I am studying human medicine at the OvGU Magdeburg. During my studies, I developed a great fascination for the complexity of the brain. That's why I've been part of the working group as a medical doctoral student since October 2024 and a member of the Research Training Group 2413 SynAGE. In my project, I use resting-state MR imaging to investigate functional connectivity patterns in the human brain. My focus is on the influence of pathological changes typical for Alzheimer's disease in old age and how these are related to memory performance.

In spring 2025, I received my Master's degree in Philosophy, Neuroscience and Cognition at the Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg, where I worked on the comparison of representational properties between artificial and biologically inspired neural networks.

Since April 2025 I am a PhD student in the subproject B04 of the CRC 1436 “Neural Resources of Cognition”. Here I am working on the relationship between vascularization, synaptic density and structural integrity in the hippocampus, which I will investigate using imaging techniques such as resting-state MRI and PET-MRI. The aim is to better understand how these factors interact to support the maintenance of cognitive performance in old age.

I am Ph.D. Student at the University Clinic of Magdeburg since September 2021, after completing my M.Sc. studies in Cognitive Neuroscience at the LMU Munich University with a focus on neuroimaging, episodic memory, and cognitive control. I am intrigued by how our brain supports memory, including brain areas in the medial temporal lobe and beyond, and how this changes due to aging, disease, and interventions such as cognitive training.

A key aim of my Ph.D. is to investigate the neural resources of mnemonic discrimination and its potential for plasticity due to cognitive training, with the ultimate goal to promote interventions that could enhance cognitive performance. In this context, I work on the SFB1436 B02 project focused on web-based mnemonic discrimination training and its effect on cognition, neural function and structure. In my freetime, I like to do sports, play basketball and read.

After my bachelor’s in psychology at the Frei Universität Berlin, I decided to expand my special interest in cognitive neuroscience in a corresponding master’s program at the Friedrich-Schiller University Jena. Due to my great passion for neuroscience research, I have been doing my PhD in the CRC "Neural Resources of Cognition" in project B04 since May 2021. The main focus of my work is to develop a training study aimed at improving spatial navigation in the real world. Brain areas that are first affected by neurodegenerative changes in the context of Alzheimer's disease are also involved in spatial navigation ability, rendering it a promising cognitive ability to investigate or protect against early neurodegenerative changes.

My scientific and clinical research has so far focused on investigating the regenerative capacity of the nervous system in the axolotl as well as the analysis of molecular mechanisms of malignant brain tumors and alternative approaches to their treatment. I have also worked on multimodal, label-free imaging of aneurysms and their application in the surgical setting for the detection of brain tumors. I have gained experience in the supervision of clinical studies and my work in the neuroendocrinology routine laboratory, which I contribute to the central project “Creation and investigation of a biomarker-based age cohort” of the CRC “Neuronal Resources of Cognition”. In my free time, I am passionate about personal development and holistic health.

With a background in mathematical and computational modeling of biological processes and systems I joined the lab in August 2019 to learn more about the arguably most fascinating organ: the brain. Nowadays, I generally investigate reserve (e.g. cognitive reserve, resistance, resilience) in the context of aging and brain disease with multimodal neuroimaging techniques. For the most part my focus lies on the relationship between hippocampal vascularization and behavioral measures as well as structural and functional brain measures. In my free time I like to spend time in nature and am a sports and (board) game enthusiast.