Category: Editorial Notes
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Jonas appointed as Associate Fellow of the Max Planck School of Cognition
Jonas Obleser has been appointed as Associate Fellow of the Max Planck School of Cognition and will serve as Associate Fellow from October 2026 onwards. The Max Planck Schools – A Joint Graduate Program of German Universities and Research Organizations are a national initiative designed to promote scientific excellence across Germany. The innovative program enhances […]
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We’ll be hiring
The Obleser lab will be hiring soon! New postdoc (fully funded) and new PhD or part-time postdoc position (soft-money funded). — Please be in touch if you think cozy Lübeck near Hamburg and close to the baltic sea might be for you. Our university offers a very agile environment, with a new OPM-MEG lab under my lab’s […]
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Merle Schuckart wins Open Science Prize
Hooray! Merle Schuckart has won the Open Science Prize of the University of Lübeck 2025 for the project behind her latest preprint, “Lifespan Variation in Perceptual Style Along an Autism–Schizotypy Continuum Explains Individual Responses to External Uncertainty” The Open Science Prize recognizes open scientific practices: open code, open data, transparent hypotheses—ideally preregistered—and the early sharing […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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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Martin Orf receives EUHA Award for Outstanding Thesis
Martin Orf is one of three recipients of this year’s EUHA Award for Outstanding Thesis from the European Union of Hearing Acousticians. His thesis, titled “Selective Attention in Multi-Talker Situations: Neural and Behavioral Mechanisms”, offers valuable insights into the neural and behavioural processes behind selective attention in complex listening environments. A key finding of his […]
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eLife insight on unifying brain networks
Obleserlab network-science wiz and designated head of OPM-magnetoencephalography operations in Lübeck, Mohsen Alavash has provided a neat little “insight” (a magazine-like brief article, essentially) in scientific journal eLife, “Brain Activity: Unifying networks of a rhythm”. In his eLife insight, Mohsen covers a new study on brain-wide beta oscillatory networks and their link to the dopaminergic […]