Kontakt

Prof. Dr. Christiane Thiel

+49 (0)441 798-3641

+49 (0)441 798-3848

A7 0-059

Thursday 11.00 - 12.00
Please write me an email before 

Sekretariat

Sandra Marienberg 
+49 (0)441 798-5523
(appointments: 9am-12:30pm)

Lea Hinrichs
+49 (0)441 798-5525

sekretariat.psychologie@uol.de

 A7 0-035
 

Department of Psychology
Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences
Cluster of Excellence Hearing4all
Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg
26111 Oldenburg
Germany

Carsten Gießing

Department of Psychology
School of Medicine and Health Sciences
Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg
26111 Oldenburg
Germany

Phone +49-(0) 441 798 3866
Email: carsten.giessing@uol.de

Consultation hour for analysing fMRI data and other methodological questions
every Thursday 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm, room A7-0-053 – Book an appointment here (Stud.IP)

Research profile

How do self-organised brain networks underlie cognitive performance? To address this question, I use graph-theoretic connectivity analyses to investigate the relationship between the organisation of functional brain networks and cognitive processes. An important aspect of my work is the development and application of methodological approaches to assess and improve the robustness of brain-derived parameters. These methods lay the foundation for more reliable, individualised predictions of brain-behaviour associations, contributing to the future advancement of personalised precision medicine.

Major research topics

  • Graph-theoretic analyses of functional brain networks: Applying advanced graph theory methods to explore connectivity patterns and network dynamics within functional brain data.
     
  • Development of robustness checking routines for fMRI data analysis: Implementing systematic approaches, such as multiverse analysis, to assess the robustness of findings in functional neuroimaging studies.
     
  • Bayesian knowledge transfer to improve replicability in small sample analyses: Use of Bayesian frameworks to investigate generalisability and improve replicability in studies with limited sample size.
     
  • Pharmacological manipulation of neural states: Investigating how drug interventions modulate the configuration of brain networks, contributing to the understanding of neurochemical influences on cognition and behaviour.

Academic positions 

2011 – 2014Associate junior fellowship of the Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg, Germany
2009 – 2011Postdoctoral fellow at the Bullmore Lab, Cambridge University, UK
Since 2005Senior scientist in the Biological Psychology Lab, Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg, Germany
2002 – 2005PhD student and research associate in the Research Centre Jülich, Germany in the group of Prof. Gereon Fink
Co-supervised by Prof. Frank Rösler
Institute of Psychology, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany

Education 

2007Doctoral graduation (Dr. rer. nat.), Philipps-University Marburg
2001

Diploma in Psychology, Philipps-University Marburg

 

Teaching experiences since 2005

Lectures, seminars and tutorials with the focus on statistics, experimental designs and the analysis of fMRI data

Representative publications

Alavash, M., Hilgetag, C. C., Thiel, C. M., & Gießing, C. (2015). Persistency and flexibility of complex brain networks underlie dual-task interference. Human Brain Mapping, 36(9), 3542–3562. doi.org/10.1002/hbm.22861

Burkhardt, M., & Gießing, C. (2024). A dynamic functional connectivity toolbox for multiverse analysis. bioRxiv, 2024.01.21.576546. doi.org/10.1101/2024.01.21.576546

Burkhardt, M., Thiel, C. M., & Gießing, C. (2022). Robust correlation for link definition in resting-state fMRI brain networks can reduce motion-related artifacts. Brain Connectivity, 12(1), 18–25. doi.org/10.1089/brain.2020.1005

Gießing, C., Thiel, C. M., Alexander-Bloch, A. F., Patel, A. X., & Bullmore, E. T. (2013). Human brain functional network changes associated with enhanced and impaired attentional task performance. Journal of Neuroscience, 33(14), 5903–5914. doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4854-12.2013

Kristanto, D., Burkhardt, M., Thiel, C. M., Debener, S., Gießing, C., & Hildebrandt, A. (2024). The multiverse of data preprocessing and analysis in graph-based fMRI: A systematic literature review of analytical choices fed into a decision support tool for informed analysis. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 105846. doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2024.105846

Viering, T., Hoekstra, P. J., Philipsen, A., Naaijen, J., Dietrich, A., Hartman, C. A., …  Gießing, C. (2021). Emotion dysregulation and integration of emotion-related brain networks affect intraindividual change in ADHD severity throughout late adolescence. NeuroImage, 245, 118729. doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2021.118729

A complete list of publications can be found here:

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