My research is about cognitive abilities in elderly people and how these change with aging as well as degenerative diseases. For my research, I use neuropsychological test procedures, such as memory and attention tests. In particular, I am interested in the subjective perspective of the elderly people and I am developing a questionnaire to assess self-perceived cognitive decline.

I am interested in the interaction between movement and cognition in everyday life. To do this, I use mobile electroencephalography, which allows me to record brain waves as people move outside the lab. This allows me to see, for example, which brain waves occur during walking, during the processing of simple cognitive tasks, or even during the formation of memories. Because these data are susceptible to interference, they are heavily pre-processed. I am also investigating the influence of this pre-processing on the results and developing quality metrics.

We investigate cognition and behavior in older people and in clinical populations (e.g. people with Alzheimer's dementia or Parkinson's disease) in an outpatient setting. Our research also focuses on outpatient non-pharmacological interventions (e.g. cognitive training) for the prevention of cognitive decline. We want to record cognition and behavior in people's everyday lives in order to better understand and improve outpatient neuropsychological diagnostics and integrate effective non-pharmacological interventions into patients' everyday lives.

I am studying signatures of gait in healthy individuals and Parkinson's disease patients. To record brain activity and movement patterns of people walking outdoors, I use mobile electroencephalography (EEG) and motion sensors. In particular, I am interested in the interaction of movement and cognition in daily life. Therefore, I ask people participating in my experiments to perform dual tasks in which, they are asked to respond to certain sounds and ignore others while walking at the same time. One goal is the comparison of healthy individuals with Parkinson's patients.

My research interests lie in investigating the influence of contextual factors on perception and learning. I am particularly interested in how we can communicate effectively with each other despite distracting background noise and the role of social factors such as sympathy. In my studies, I measure brain activity in audiovisual, virtual environments to improve attention and understanding of speech. In addition, I have investigated the effects of sleep and distraction on motor imagery, a technique in which movements are only imagined and not executed and used in rehabilitation, among other things. By using mobile technologies, I aim to make my research findings transferable to people's everyday lives.