Jochem Rieger is a professor of Psychology at the University of Oldenburg and head of the neuroimaging unit housing a 3T MR-scanner and an MEG-system. He received received his PhD in Neuroscience at the Max-Planck-Institute for Biological Cybernetics and University of Tübingen, Germany. He spent several years as research fellow at Stanford University, SUNY Downstate, and UC Berkeley. His interdisciplinary research focuses on characterization of function of neural activation underlying perception/cognition/action in settings using using state-of-the-art data driven machine learning methods and the development of Brain-Machine-Interfaces for the integration of humans into cooperative safety critical human-cyber-physical-systems. His research has been published in internationally renowned journals such as Nature Neuroscience, Nature communications, NeuroImage, Human Brain Mapping as well as in computer science and engineering conference series.