News 2025

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 Bölter and Dr. phil. Maximilian Bruchmann. 

 

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.

We warmly congratulate both awardees on their outstanding achievements!
More Information: https://www.uni-muenster.de/news/view.php?cmdid=14807


 

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 welcome Susanne Meinert from 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)

We welcome Jessica Coenen from the Institute of Sport and Exercise Sciences as a new member of the Otto Creutzfeldt Center in 2025.

Jessica Coenen works on questions about

• Neurophysiology
• (Sport-) Psychology

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

Our next speaker in the OCC Colloquium Series in the summer semester 2025 is Prof. Dr. Richard Henson from the University of Cambridge
 

• Time: May 21, 2025, 4:15 p.m.
• Location: Zoom Meeting, MasterClass directly afterwards, Registration Required (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.

Our next speaker in the OCC Colloquium Series in the summer semester 2025 is Prof. Dr. Solveig Vieluf from the LMU Klinikum of München
 

• Time: May 14th, 2025, 4:15 p.m.
• Location: Institute of Psychology, Fliednerstraße 21, Room Fl 018

Our first speaker in the OCC Colloquium Series in the summer semester 2025 is Prof. Dr. Joel Levine from the University of Toronto
 

• Time: May 07, 2025, 4:15 p.m.
• Location: Institute of Psychology, Fliednerstraße 21, Room Fl 018