We congratulate Dr. Niklas Hypki on successfully defending his thesis "How We See, Perceive and Act: Analysing Eye Movements in
Virtual Reality" at the Institute of Psychology. The thesis was supervised by Prof. Dr. Markus Lappe, Prof. Dr. Heiko Wagner and Prof. Dr. Frank Steinicke.
We congratulate Dr. Marius Boeltzig on successfully defending his thesis "Learning From The Unexpected: How Prediction Error Size
Shapes Episodic Memory" at the Institute of Psychology. The thesis was supervised by Prof.'in Dr. Ricarda Schubotz, Prof.'in Dr. Kristina Liefke and Dr. Ines Bramao.
We congratulate Dr. Falko Mecklenbrauck on successfully defending his thesis "Still Dwelling in the Rich Club? - The Role of Structural Hubs and Cortical Chronoarchitecture in the Processing of Hierarchically Nested Stimuli" at the Institute of Psychology. The thesis was supervised by Prof.'in Dr. Ricarda Schubotz, Prof. Dr. Joachim Groß and Prof. Dr. Moritz Wurm.
We congratulate Dr. Rosari Naveena Selvan on successfully defending her thesis "The Predictive Brain in Action: Multimodal Evidence for Hierarchical Predictive Processing at Action Boundaries" at the Institute of Psychology. The thesis was supervised by Prof.'in Dr. Ricarda Schubotz, Prof. Dr. Markus Lappe and Prof. Dr. Florentin Wörgötter.
In our OCC PhD Program we welcome Larissa Stähler. Her PhD project is funded by the Innovative Medical Research (IMF) of the University Hospital Münster. The project is supervised by OCC members Prof. Dr. Thomas Straube, Apl. Prof. Dr. Jens Bölte and Dr. Insa Schloßmacher.
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New OCC PhD Student - Michelle Kuhn
In our OCC PhD Program we welcome Michelle Kuhn. She works in the team at the Institute of Psychology. The project is supervised by OCC members Prof. Dr. Markus Lappe, Prof. Dr. Niko Busch and Dr. Krischan Koerfer.
We congratulate Dr. Jana Masselink on successfully defending her thesis "The Trinity of Oculomotor Learning: Recalibrating Visual Space, Motor Space, and Internal Movement Predictions" at the Institute of Psychology. The thesis was supervised by Prof. Dr. Markus Lappe, Prof. Dr. Heiko Wagner and Prof.'in Dr. Rebekka Lencer.
In our OCC PhD Program we welcome Lena Puder. She works in the team at the Institute for Biomagnetism and Biosignalanalysis. The project is supervised by OCC members Prof. Dr. Joachim Groß, Prof. Dr. Ricarda Schubotz and Dr. Ida Wessing.
From Neuromarkers to Neural Networks: Multi-Perspective Resting State EEG Approaches for Dementia Research
Our next speaker in the OCC Colloquium Series in the winter semester 2025/26 is Asst. Prof. Dr. Mesut Seker from the Dicle University, Diyarbakir, Turkey
Time: December 17, 2025, 2:15 p.m.
Location: Institute of Psychology, Fliednerstraße 21, Room Fl 35, MasterClass directly afterwards
In our OCC PhD Program we welcome Marc Dührkop. His PhD project revolves around the question: How relevant are sensory inputs and motor expertise for movement prediction? The project is supervised by OCC members Prof. Dr. Ricarda Schubotz, Prof. Dr. Claudia Voelcker-Rehage and Dr. Sophie Siestrup.
We welcome Prof. Albrecht Stroh from the Institute of Physiology I - Neurophysiology as a new member of the Otto Creutzfeldt Center in 2025.
He says of his research:
In collaboration with clinical scientists, I apply network-centered neurophysiological approaches in early-stage models of neurological diseases with the aim of defining the function of neural networks as independent pathophysiological units, thereby enabling new therapeutic strategies that focus on interventions based on the state of the brain.
We welcome Annika Lüttjohann from the Institute of Physiology as a new member of the Otto Creutzfeldt Center in 2025.
Annikas research interests are:
Cellular and network mechanisms of absence epilepsy, Electrophysiology: LFP-, multi- and single
neuron recordings in freely behaving or anaesthetized rodents, statistical analyses, brain-computer
interfaces, deep brain stimulation.
In our OCC PhD Program we welcome Theresa Rieger. Her PhD project, entitled “Neural Correlates of Consciousness in the context of illusory perception”, therefore focuses on illusion-based paradigms. The project is supervised by OCC members Prof. Dr. Thomas Straube, apl. Prof. Dr. Jens Bölte and Dr. phil. Maximilian Bruchmann.
Two OCC Members Granted University of Münster Research Awards
We are delighted to announce that two members of the OCC have been recognized with this year’s prestigious Research Awards from the Universitätsgesellschaft Münster, each endowed with a prize of €5,000:
Dr. Susanne Meinert conducts research at the intersection of neuroscience and psychotherapy, seeking to uncover how mental illnesses—such as depression—develop and cause changes in the brain.
Dr. Daniel Kluger’s research focuses on brain-respiratory coupling, illustrating how the interplay between breathing and brain activity plays a key role in conditions such as anxiety disorders and epilepsy.
In our OCC PhD Program we welcome Mariam Huertas Radi. Her research is based on the contexts "Integration of sleep and feeding with the circadian clock and metabolism in Drosophila melanogaster." The project is supervised by OCC members Prof. Dr. Ralf Stanewsky, Prof. Dr. Christian Wegener and Dr. Anna Ziegler.
We congratulate Dr. Jennifer Pomp on successfully defending her thesis "The Perception of Structure in Actions: Neural Signatures of Event Boundaries across Behavior and Computer Vision" at the Institute of Psychology. The thesis was supervised by Prof. Dr. Ricarda Schubotz, Prof. Dr. Pienie Zwitserlood and Prof. Dr. Florentin Wörgötter.
We welcomeSusanne Meinertfrom the Institute for Translational Psychiatry & Institute for Translational Neuroscience as a new member of the Otto Creutzfeldt Center in 2025.
Susanne Meinert works on questions about
Diffusion Tensor Imaging
Affective Disorders
Translational Research
Transitional periods (e.g., adolescence, postpartum)
Overview of the history of EEG research, current deep learning applications, and future perspectives for a data‐driven and objective psychiatry
Our next speaker in the OCC Colloquium Series in the summer semester 2025 is Prof. Dr. Sebastian Olbrich from the Psychiatric University Hospital Zurich
Time: June 04, 2025, 4:15 p.m.
Location: Institute of Psychology, Fliednerstraße 21, Room Fl 018, MasterClass directly afterwards
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Career event
On the afternoon of May 22, 2025, we are hosting a career event for the iKoN master students. A number of invited and selected postdoctoral researchers will report on their professional careers. For further information about this valuable event, please contact occinfo@uni-muenster.de
We congratulate Dr. Krischan Koerfer on successfully defending his thesis "Nonrigid motion perception" at the Institute of Psychology. The thesis was supervised by Prof. Dr. Markus Lappe, Prof. Dr. Niko Busch and Prof. Dr. Heiko Wagner.
