News

June 28, 2022: Our work on virtual humans was featured in the ZDF show “Leschs Kosmos” (starting at 15:00)
April 5, 2022: We are looking for two doctoral researchers (deadline: May 1, 2022).
March 2022: We have several positions to be filled. Please see the section “work with us”.
February 18, 2022: Michael Gaebler talked about our research on VR and emotions in the ACM SIGGRAPH Spotlight podcast.
December 17, 2021: The paper "Decoding subjective emotional arousal from EEG during an immersive virtual reality experience" has been published: press release, eLife digest, twitter thread.
December 16, 2021: Janis Reinelt successfully defended his MD thesis on "Mind-brain-body interactions after acute psychosocial stress" at Leipzig University. Congratulations, Dr. Reinelt!
December 3, 2021: Marie Uhlig's preprint "Rapid volumetric brain changes after acute psychosocial stress" is now available on bioRxiv.
November 23, 2021: Announcement of the 9th MindBrainBody Symposium (register here)
October 1, 2021: Our project "Mobile immersive virtual reality based assessment of spatial neglect" (3DIA) started.
June 16, 2021: Stella Kunzendorf successfully defended her MD thesis on "The modulation of active information sampling across the cardiac cycle" at the Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin. Congratulations, Dr. Kunzendorf!
June 8, 2021: Our project "Neurocognitively-guided modeling of virtual humans for enhanced realism in immersive media" (NEUROHUM) started. (press release by collaboration partner Fraunhofer HHI)
March 18, 2021: Deniz Kumral successfully defended her PhD thesis on "Variability in heart and brain activity across the adult lifespan" at the Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin. Congratulations, Dr. Kumral!