Head of "Networks of Behaviour and Cognition" 

(Dr. rer. nat. Psychology, M. Sc. Psychology) 

Kirsten works as Senior Scientist at the Department for Biological Psychology at Julius Maximillian University Wuerzburg, Germany. She earned her PhD in Cognitive Neuroscience in 2018 at Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany, studying the neural bases of intelligence from a graph-theoretical Network Neuroscience perspective. In her current position she broadened her research interests to Virtual Reality applications in the study of pain-related fear and chronic pain. Concerning intelligence, her current projects strive for the further development of Network Neuroscience and Machine Learning-based Predictive Modelling approaches to enlighten the neurobiological bases of individual differences in general cognitive ability and personality.

Contact: kirsten.hilger@uni-wuerzburg.de, kirsten.hilger@vp-uni.de

PhD Student 

(M. Eng. Engineering)

Research interests: 

• Intelligence

• Network Neuroscience 

• Brain states

• Machine Learning

• Neural Networks

• Interpretability and explanatory value of predictive modeling approaches

• fMRI, EEG

Contact: jonas.thiele@uni-wuerzburg.de

PhD Student

(M. Sc. Biomedical Science)

Research interests: 

• Intelligence

• Big-5 Personality Traits

• Trait-relevance

• Neuroticism 

• Network Neuroscience

• Structural-functional brain network coupling

• fMRI, DTI

Contact: johanna.popp@uni-wuerzburg.de

PhD Student

(M. Sc. Aerospace Computer Science)

Research interests: 

• General Cognitive Ability

• Neuroticism 

• Network Neuroscience

• Machine Learning 

• Graph Neural Networks

• Pattern Recognition

• DTI, molecular genetics

Contact: lina.mitkov@uni-wuerzburg.de

PhD Student

(M. A. Economic Geography, B. Sc. Psychology, B. A. Business Administration)

Research interests: 

• Intelligence

• Giftedness

• Autism

• Sex-Differences

• Network Neuroscience

• Meta-Analysis

• fMRI, DTI

Contact: paulina.plinke@.gmail.com

Associated Researcher

(B. Sc. Biology)

Research interests: 

• Intelligence

• ADHD

• Autistic Spectrum Disorder

• Network Neuroscience

• Meta-Analysis

• Brain Signal Complexity

• EEG, fMRI

Contact: aylin.richter@proton.me

Undergraduate Student

(Psychology)

Research interests: 

• Intelligence

• Network Neuroscience

• Meta-Analysis

• Open Science

• P300, MMN

• EEG, fMRI

Contact:  tobias.noeth.02@gmail.com 

Undergraduate Student 

(Psychology)

Research interests: 

• Intelligence and vulnerability

• Network Neuroscience

• Meta-Analysis

• Open Science

• HiTOP Model

• EEG, fMRI

Contact:  melanie.celina@stud-mail.uni-wuerzburg.de