Dr. Rosanne Rademaker
Group Leader

Rosanne spent her postdoc years at UC San Diego with Prof. John Serences (party funded by a Marie Curie Individual Fellowship), and did her graduate work at Vanderbilt University with Prof. Frank Tong and at Maastricht University with Prof. Alexander Sack. In the background, Rosanne is quietly fighting for some semblance of equal opportunity for parent scientists in Germany.

Maria Servetnik
PhD student

Maria got her Bachelor's degree in psychology at the National Research University Higher School of Economics in Moscow, where she worked with Dr. Utochkin. During her Master's degree at the University of Leuven she worked with with Dr. Pieter Moors and Dr. Bert Reynvoet. Now, Maria is becoming an expert in calculus, running many fMRI scans, and incidentally learning parallel computing thanks to EEG data.

Amit Rawal
PhD student

Before joining our lab, Amit was a Neuroscience MSc student, Research Assistant, and PhD student at Taipei Medical University in Taiwan, working with Dr. Philip Tseng, Dr. Niall Duncan, & Dr. Christoph Dahl. Amit is always acquiring and implementing the tools of the trade of a Cognitive Neuroscientist. He’s also getting used to cold Frankfurt winters, and has become a true eye movement expert.

Noa Krause
PhD student

Noa finished her BSc and MSc at the University of Groningen, where she worked with Dr. Nieuwenstein, Prof. Dr. Akyürek, and Dr. Borst. After completing her Master thesis work in our lab, she is now a a PhD student investigating the decodability of visual working memory content using MEG, and implementing the many models that might explain the role of early visual cortex in working memory.

Nursima Ünver
PhD student (joint University of Toronto & Max Planck graduate program)

Nursima got her MSc degree at Sabanci University in Istanbul, working with Eren Günseli to investigate the interplay between working and long-term memory. Nursima is part of the very first batch of PhD students in a joint initiative between the Max Planck and the University of Toronto. This means two PI’s (two can only be better than one!), kicking off in Toronto with Keisuke Fukuda, and now continued in Frankfurt.

Lea Kerciku
Research Assistant

Lea studied Biology in Bonn and completed her MSc in Neuroscience at Goethe University. During her studies, Lea used EEG to investigate cognition with Dr. Molly J. Henry and Dr. Yuranny Cabral-Calderin. Lea supports our lab as a research assistant, while learning more about neuroimaging, perception and working memory.

Mishal Qubad
Visiting scholar & MD

Mishal is a medical resident at the Department of Psychiatry (Goethe University) working in the group of Dr. Robert Bittner to investigate the neurophysiological correlates of cognitive dysfunction in Schizophrenia. Specifically, Mishal uses fMRI to look at visual organization and resiliency factors, and will use various new mapping approaches during her collaboration in our lab.

Megan Howard
Master Thesis student

Megan earned her Bachelor's degree in Biology and Music from ACU in Abilene, Texas. After making the switch from molecular biology to neuroscience, she moved to Frankfurt to pursue a MSc in Interdiciplinary Neuroscience at Goethe University. Megan is interested in neural flexibility & memory, and is excited to integrate fMRI into her research repertoire as she studies attentional differences for her thesis.

Penelope
Procrastination Assistant

Penelope is a great scanning companion, likes to make sure the brain is in the bounding box, and reminds subjects not to take metal into the scanner room. When German childcare fails, she spends much time in lab with her mama, placing (and winning) bets with the grad students, and claiming she is the “co-PI”. In her free time, she enjoys bossing her little sister around.

2025

Rasmus Sinn (Goethe University)
Naveen Balachandran (IISER Thiruvananthapuram)
Muddsar Hameed (Higher School of Economics, Moscow)
Antonia Ceric (INS, Goethe University)
Cosma Aurelio Sgaramella (INS, Goethe University)

2024

Megan Howard (INS, Goethe University)
Damla Çifçi (Humboldt University)
Leon Holzschuh (Goethe University)
Esin Gün Gürsoy (INS, Goethe University)
Cosima Rupp (Uniklinik, Goethe University)
Leoni Höhfeld (Uniklinik, Goethe University)
Marina Wendel (Marburg University)
Khanh Linh Le (INS, Goethe University)
Rumeysa Malik (Goethe University)

2023

Josephine Hahn (Marburg University)
Luisa Werner (Göttingen University)
Paula Becker (Carl Schurz Schule)
Madleen Klonowski (INS, Goethe University)
Zoe Ronna (INS, Goethe University)
Leonie Schmied (TU Darmstadt)
Hannah Soyka (Würzburg University)
Tom Kern (INS, Goethe University)
Parnian Poursafa (INS, Goethe University)

2022

Nicolás Pollán Hauer (CRM, Barcelona)
Yulia Nurislamova (Max Planck school of cognition)
Johanna Diehl (INS, Goethe University)