Author: Jonas

• 8 November 2025

  Find us at Neu­ro­science 2025

  Next week, the Obleser lab will be present in San Diego at APAN 2025 (Fri­day) and at Neu­ro­science (SfN) 2025, with no less than four posters in the Tues­day PM ses­sion (1–5 pm local time): Inves­ti­gat­ing Hemo­dy­nam­ic Prox­ies of Neur­al Exci­ta­tion-Inhi­bi­tion Bal­ance Across Human Cor­texR. CATENA, M. ALAVASH, B. HERRMANN, J. OBLESERPoster MM8 Low dos­es of […]

• 19 September 2025

  Con­fer­ence travel

  As usu­al for aca­d­e­mics world­wide, August and Sep­tem­ber are months busy with con­fer­ence trav­el and inspir­ing inter­ac­tions far beyond the con­fines of our own small cam­pus here in Lübeck. This year, mem­bers of the Obleser lab have been present in Den­mark, Por­tu­gal, the Nether­lands, and we will hit North­ern Italy next week for a great […]

• 10 June 2025

  Hooray! The Col­lab­o­ra­tive Research Grant “Foun­da­tions of Cir­ca­di­ane Med­i­cine” is here (to stay).

  Very hap­py that our lab will be part of the new DFG-fund­ed Col­lab­o­ra­tive Research Cen­tre („Son­der­forschungs­bere­ich“, SFB) Tran­sre­gio 418 between the Char­ité Berlin and Uni­ver­si­ty of Lübeck, spear­head­ed by chrono­bi­ol­o­gy wiz­ards Achim Kramer (Berlin) and Hen­rik Oster (Lübeck) — “Foun­da­tions of Cir­ca­di­an Med­i­cine”. A CRC/SFB col­lects about 15 projects, cen­tral funds, and many prin­ci­pal inves­ti­ga­tors from […]

• 7 April 2025

  New paper in Trends in Hear­ing: Hear­ing aids add a demon­stra­ble amount of cog­ni­tive burden

  A true Hoer­hanse col­labo: Markus Kem­per and our col­leagues from the Deutsche Hörg­eräte Insti­tut (DHI) show, with Jonas’ help, and using data acquired in our lab, that hear­ing aids do take their how­ev­er slight toll on the cog­ni­tive system:  Despite the unques­tion­ably great help that hear­ing devices do pro­vide to those with impaired hear­ing, the […]

• 7 April 2025

  New paper in Jour­nal of Neu­ro­science: Mamash­li et al.

  Jonas col­lab­o­rat­ed with for­mer Max Planck col­leagues and the Mari­nos Imag­ing Cen­ter at Har­vard (first author Fahimeh Mamash­li) on a re-analy­sis of a sim­ple speech/language paradigm. In this new paper out now in J Neu­rosci, Fahimeh shows that activ­i­ty in the infe­ri­or frontal gyrus (IFG) doesn’t just respond to meaning—it pre­dicts it. Using machine learn­ing, […]

• 31 March 2025

  Jonas has become a mem­ber of the Bern­stein Network

  As of today, I am hon­oured to have become a mem­ber of the Bern­stein Net­work Com­pu­ta­tion­al Neu­ro­science. The Bern­stein Net­work Com­pu­ta­tion­al Neu­ro­science brings togeth­er over 200 research groups and 450 indi­vid­ual sci­en­tists world­wide, facil­i­tat­ing col­lab­o­ra­tion between exper­i­men­tal neu­ro­science, the­o­ret­i­cal mod­el­ing, and com­put­er sim­u­la­tion. Estab­lished in 2004 through fund­ing by the Ger­man Fed­er­al Min­istry of Edu­ca­tion […]

• 9 January 2025

  The Obleser lab branch­es out

  Our lab has con­tin­ued to diver­si­fy con­sid­er­ably and to mature aca­d­e­m­i­cal­ly over the last years. With Sarah Tune and Malte Wöst­mann, we have now two senior sci­en­tists who lead teams with­in our group, which I am very proud of. Sarah Tune leads the Cog­ni­tive Mod­el­ling team and Malte Wöst­mann has been lead­ing the Dynam­ics of Atten­tion […]

• 3 January 2025

  Jonas Obleser appoint­ed as senior edi­tor for the Jour­nal of Neuroscience

  Start­ing Jan­u­ary 1, 2025, Jonas Obleser will serve as a Senior Edi­tor for The Jour­nal of Neu­ro­science. This pres­ti­gious role, ini­tial­ly set for three years with an option to extend, places him at the core of the edi­to­r­i­al team, under the lead­er­ship of renowned Ger­man-Amer­i­can neu­ro­sci­en­tist Sabine Kast­ner (Prince­ton). As Senior Edi­tor, Jonas will over­see […]

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