Dr. Martin Bleichner has been appointed to the Heisenberg Professorship of Translational Psychology at the Department of Psychology, where he has headed the Emmy Noether Group ‘Neurophysiology of Everyday Life’, funded by the German Research Foundation, since 2019. With his project ‘The Everyday Brain: Towards Capturing Temporal Dynamics Beyond Lab’, he successfully applied for admission to the DFG's renowned Heisenberg Programme. The programme will cover the costs for the first five years of the permanent professorship.
Bleichner studied Cognitive Science at the Universities of Osnabrück and Utrecht (Netherlands). He completed his doctorate at the University Medical Centre Utrecht and moved to Oldenburg in 2013. From 2016 to 2018, the neuroscientist was an Associate Junior Fellow at the Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg.
A central focus of Bleichner's research is the development of portable electroencephalography (EEG) devices that can be used to measure brain waves in everyday life. He wants to use this data to analyse how people perceive their world and what roles concentration, mood and attention play in this. One focus is on the soundscapes of everyday life and the question of how the brain processes background noise, speech or music, for example
