There is now an opening for an up-to-4-year (!) postdoc position in my lab for late summer/fall. Join us in Lübeck, Germany, and do cool behavioural and neuroscience on neural dynamics, ageing, sensory decline with us! The application deadline (as…
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New members in the Obleser lab
In the Obleser lab, we welcome new members and PhD students Martin Orf and Troby Lui. Martin did his MSc in Audiology Technology here at the University of Lübeck. He is now joining us for PhD project funded generously by…
New paper in press in elife: Waschke et al.
Obleserlab senior PhD student Leo Waschke, alongside co-authors Sarah Tune and Jonas Obleser, has a new paper in eLife. The processing of sensory information from our environment is not constant but rather varies with changes in ongoing brain activity, or…
Jonas appointed as Reviewing editor to eLife
I am honoured to have been asked to join the editorial board of eLife, a journal I very much honour for their fresh approach to excellent scientific publishing. eLife is a publishing initiative by the Max Planck Society, the Wellcome…
Mohsen Alavash and Sarah Tune win science award
Congratulations to AC postdocs Mohsen Alavash and Sarah Tune for receiving the science award of the University of Lübeck. Each year the university honors an outstanding scientific publication with this award. We are proud that Sarah and Mohsen were awarded…
New paper in press in the Journal of Neuroscience
Wöstmann, Alavash and Obleser demonstrate that alpha oscillations in the human brain implement distractor suppression independent of target selection. In theory, the ability to selectively focus on relevant objects in our environment bases on selection of targets and suppression of…
New lab member Sebastian Puschmann
We welcome Dr. Sebastian Puschmann as a new postdoc in the Obleser/Auditory Cognition lab! Sebastian has a background in Physics. He received his training in auditory cognitive neuroscience at the University of Oldenburg and the Montreal Neurological Institute. In Lübeck, Sebastian…
New DFG project led by Mohsen Alavash on the Network Neuroscience of Spatial Attention
Congratulations to our currently ERC-funded lab member and postdoc Mohsen Alavash who has just secured 3‑year funding (~380,000 €) by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) for an ambitious project: Mohsen wants to get closer to a network/graph-theoretical description of how spatial…