Head of "Networks of Behaviour and Cognition" 

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

Kirsten works as Full Professor for Differential Psychology, Personality Psychology and Psychological Diagnostics at Vinzenz Pallotti University Vallendar, 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 time as post-doc and Assistant Professor at Julius-Maximilians University Würzburg she broadened her perspective to clinical research topics, in particular to ADHD, ASD and the study of pain-related fear as critically involved in chronic pain. Virtual Reality, EEG as well as endocrinology and psychophysiology complete her methodological profile. 

However, her primary focus continnues to be the Network Neurosciences of individual differences in Intelligence and Personality.  In this regard, her current projects strive for the further development of Machine Learning-based Predictive Modelling approaches and large-scale Meta-(Meta-)Analyses. 

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