Dr. Johannes Rennig

• Research in Digital Biomarkers for neurodegenerative diseases at a leading global biotechnology company • Analyzed data from smartphones sensors and smartphone-based behavioral tests to track and understand patient behavior in clinical studies • Validated novel smartphone-based behavioral tests and passive monitoring data with established neurological clinical exams and neuroimaging biomarkers • Communicated clinical study results to scientific, medical and non-scientific project stakeholders

• Applied behavioral and neuroimaging methods to study human object perception • Used machine learning methods (SVM) and modeling techniques for lesion mapping in stroke patients

• Designed and coded audiovisual tasks in MATLAB/Psychtoolbox and integrated them into a setup with MR scanner, eye-tracker and behavioral testing to study audiovisual speech perception • Developed an analysis pipeline to combine results from statistical software for large-scale neuroimaging time-series data and custom code for analysis of eye movements and behavior • Analyzed data with GLM, hypothesis testing, machine learning, clustering, and hierarchical models with MATLAB and R

• Developed a rating system for natural language reports in Python • Cleaned and prepared natural language data to measure situational awareness in applicant reports to automate a professional assessment process using sentiment analysis, PoS tagging and text to vector models (word2vec, bag of words, tf-idf) in Python • Applied a multinomial logistic regression model in Python to classify natural language reports

• Applied behavioral and neuroimaging methods to study how humans process numerical information • Analyzed neuroimaging and behavioral data with machine learning techniques (SVM classification) and linear mixed-effects models with MATLAB and R • Trained four students to pass user exam for independent usage of MR scanner

• Taught course "Introduction to Neurospychology" for 1st year college students • Prepared course material, gave lectures, organized group work • Prepared material for student talks • Graded student talks

• Conducted (neuro-)psychological assessments and experimental behavior tests with neurological patients (stroke, dementia) • Acquired and analyzed large-scale neuroimaging and time-series data with MATLAB to study human vision • Coded experimental behavioral tests in MATLAB/Psychtoolbox for healthy participants and >150 neurological patients • Supervised two Master theses, two Bachelor theses, three undergraduate research assistants

• Taught course "Introduction to Cognitive Science" for 1st year master students in Product and Interface Design • Prepared course material, gave lectures, organized group work • Prepared material for student talks • Graded student talks

• Tested neurological patients (stroke, dementia) and healthy participants with computerized and paper-pencil neuropsychological tests • Pre-processed and analyzed behavioral test data • Created a data base of neuropsychological test results and structural neuroimaging

• Tested neurological patients (trauma, stroke, various neurodegenrative diseases, e.g. Parkinson's, Huntington's, Multiple Sclerosis) with computerized and paper-pencil neuropsychological tests • Wrote neuropsychological patient reports • Assisted leading neuropsychologist with decisions on therapeutical recommendations/interventions

• Fulfilled civil service (instead of mandatory service in German military) • Assisted in rehabilitation programs of neurological patients (trauma, stroke, various neurodegenrative diseases, e.g. Parkinson's, Huntington's, Multiple Sclerosis) • Organized leisure time activities for neurological patients

Cognitive Psychology, Neuropsychology, Work- and Organisational Psychology, Neurophysiology, Clinical Psychology Master thesis ("Influences of brain lesions on the fMRI BOLD signal") on influences of brain lesions on the fMRI BOLD signal.

General Psychology, Clinical Psychology, Neuropsychology

General Psychology, Statistics