Skills

In no particular order

R

Statistics

Lecturer

Certified software carpentries instructor

Project Management

trained in planning, coordinating and running multimodal research projects including MRI and PET

Neuroimaging

Structural, especially diffusion MRI (FSL,Freesurfer) & Task-based MRI (SPM)

Wet Lab

PCR, RT-PCR, q-PCR, primer design, DNA and RNA isolation/analysis, single-cell PatchClamp

Photography

beloved hobby

Wildlife & Water

beloved hobby

Experience

 
 
 
 
 

Postdoctoral Researcher

Department of Psychiatric Research, Diakonhjemmet Hospital

Dec 2020 – Present Oslo, Norway
Study Populations & Collaborations see below
 
 
 
 
 

Postdoctoral Fellow

Norwegian Centre for Mental Disorders Research, Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Oslo

Jan 2018 – Dec 2020 Oslo, Norway

Study populations

  • Adolescent early-onset psychosis patients
  • Adult first-episode and chronic patients on the schizophrenia-bipolar spectrum
  • Adolescent and adult healthy individuals

Data sets

  • Human Brain Informatics (HUBIN) study, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
  • Karolinska Schizophrenia Project (KASP), Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
  • Stockholm Child and Adolescent Psychosis Study (SCAPS), Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
  • Thematically organised psychosis (TOP) study, adolescent and adult patients, NORMENT, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
  • UK biobank

International collaborations

  • Ann-Marie G. de Lange, FemiLab, Centre for Research in Neuroscience, Department of Clinical Neuroscience, CHUV - Université de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland (https://www.unil.ch/lren/home/menuinst/teams-science/femilab---womens-brain-health.html)
  • Birgit Derntl Lab, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University of Tuebingen, Germany, Project (Review Article): Influence of sex steroids on neurotransmitter systems in decision-making: contribution to sexual dimorphisms in psychiatric disorders.
  • Co-Chair ENIGMA Early-Onset Psychosis Working Group, Collaboration with Sinead Kelly, Project: Identifying white matter microstructural differences in early-onset psychosis.

 
 
 
 
 

Academic employee

University of Leipzig, Sonderforschungsbereich (SFB)

Nov 2017 – Dec 2017 Leipzig, Germany
Responsibilities include:

  • MRI scanning
  • Handling of participants

 
 
 
 
 

Doctoral Research Fellow

Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Department of Neurology, EGG-Lab

Oct 2013 – Sep 2017 Leipzig, Germany
Responsibilities include:

  • project management
  • maintaining collaborations with study partnes (e.g. Interactions with local Startup VivoSensMedical GmbH for use of OvulaRing for study purposes)
  • recruitment and day-to-day supervision of research assistents and interns
  • study subject recruitment
  • conducting screening-visits
  • obtaining neuropsychological data
  • imaging data acquisition (MRI-licence, SIEMENS systems)
  • preprocessing and statistical analysis of those datasets

Awards

OSSD Travel Award

Organization for the Study of Sex Differences May 2020
Abstract Estrogen and women’s brain aging: evidence for an optimal estrogen exposure hypothesis

Women’s Brain Health Young Investigator Award

Women’s Health Research Cluster Apr 2020
Abstract Women’s brain aging: effects of sex-hormone exposure, pregnancies, and genetic risk for Alzheimer’s disease

ECNP Poster Award

European College of Neuropsychopharmacology (ECNP) Sep 2019
Poster title Exploring the impact of iatrogenic factors on global brain changes in chronic schizophrenia – a 13-years follow-up.

Dissertation Award

Medical Faculty, University of Leipzig Oct 2018
Thesis Exploring structural and functional brain dynamics across the menstrual cycle

OSSD Travel Award

Organization for the Study of Sex Differences May 2016
Abstract Why sex hormones matter for neural phenotyping.

Publications

*both authors contributed equally

Background: Abnormalities in amygdala volume are well-established in schizophrenia and commonly reported in bipolar disorders. However, …
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Women and men exhibit differences in behavior when making value-based decisions. Various hypotheses have been proposed to explain these …
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Maternal brain adaptations occur in response to pregnancy, but little is known about how parity impacts white matter (WM) …
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Early‐onset psychosis disorders are serious mental disorders arising before the age of 18 years. Here, we investigate the largest …
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Sex hormones such as estrogen fluctuate across the female lifespan, with high levels during reproductive years and natural decline …
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Background: Uncertainty exists about what causes brain structure alterations associated with schizophrenia (SZ) and bipolar disorder …
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Pregnancy involves maternal brain adaptations, but little is known about how parity influences women’s brain aging trajectories …
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Women are at significantly greater risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease and show higher prevalence of autoimmune conditions relative …
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White matter abnormalities are well-established in adult patients with psychosis. Less is known about abnormalities in the rarely …
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Sex hormones fluctuate during the menstrual cycle. Evidence from animal studies suggests similar subtle fluctuations in hippocampal …
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The growing interest in intrinsic brain organization has sparked various innovative approaches to generating comprehensive …
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Sex hormones have been implicated in neurite outgrowth, synaptogenesis, dendritic branching, myelination and other important mechanisms …
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