Internships

The BAND-Lab offers many student internships and research opportunities on a broad set of topics.
With us, past students have conducted Master and Bachelor thesis projects and Research Master elective studies.

If you are interested in joining us, please have a look at our current internships, or check the university webpage for active postings for projects in our lab.

Current Interns:


Florine Lonhard (MSc Neuropsychology – Thesis Project)
  • PROJECT: “The role of time in neuropsychological assessment”
  • TOPICS/SKILLS: Behavioural and neuropsychological testing 
  • SUPERVISORS: Michael Schwartze and Sonja Kotz

David Tekampe (MSc Neuropsychology – Thesis Project)
  • PROJECT: “Assessment of attention using virtual reality”
  • TOPICS/SKILLS: Behavioural and neuropsychological testing 
  • SUPERVISORS: Michael Schwartze and Lars Hausfeld (CN department)

Marta Porro (MSc Neuropsychology – Thesis Project)
  • PROJECT: “On the interaction between physiological and behavioural timing capacity and sleep activity
  • TOPICS/SKILLS: Behavioural and neuropsychological testing 
  • SUPERVISORS: Michael Schwartze and Simone Sarasso (University of Milan, Italy)

Anxhela Sulaj (MSc Neuropsychology – Thesis Project)
  • PROJECT: “Assessment of attention using virtual reality”
  • TOPICS/SKILLS: Behavioural and neuropsychological testing 
  • SUPERVISORS: Michael Schwartze and Lars Hausfeld (CN department)

Antrea Georgiadou (MSc Neuropsychology – Thesis Project)
  • PROJECT: “The role of time in neuropsychological assessment”
  • TOPICS/SKILLS: Behavioural and neuropsychological testing 
  • SUPERVISORS: Michael Schwartze and Sonja Kotz

Vivien Kolotzek (BSc Psychology – MaRBle Thesis Project)
  • PROJECT: “ISensory gating in persons with tinnitus – an EEG study”
  • TOPICS/SKILLS: EEG, P50 suppression, statistical analysis
  • SUPERVISORS: Pia Brinkmann and Sonja Kotz

Daniel Mazhari-Jensen (RMSc Neuropsychology – Thesis project)
  • PROJECT: “Basal ganglia and cerebellar contribution to rhythm and beat perception”
  • TOPICS/SKILLS: EEG data analysis of ERP and TFR data; Matlab-based FieldTrip toolbox and custom functions
  • SUPERVISORS: Antonio Criscuolo and Sonja Kotz

Alexandra Kalberer (RMSc Neuropsychology – Research elective)
  • PROJECT: “Characterizing brain state changes in non-clinical voice hearers using hidden semi-markov models”
  • TOPICS/SKILLS:  EEG, Hidden-Semi Markov Modeling
  • SUPERVISORS: Hanna Honcamp and Sonja Kotz

Monika Utroša Škerjanec (BSc Psychology – MaRBle Thesis Project)
  • PROJECT: “NERHYMUS – the NEurobiology of RHYthm: effects of MUSical expertise on natural speech comprehension”
  • TOPICS/SKILLS: evaluation of local and global rhythmicity in stimuli, behavioral daa analysis, language in context, speech and rhythm perception
  • SUPERVISORS: Katerina Kandylaki

Valentin Rosiny-Wieland (MSc Neuropsychology – Thesis Project)
  • PROJECT: “NERHYMUS – the NEurobiology of RHYthm: effects of MUSical expertise on natural speech comprehension”
  • TOPICS/SKILLS: TMS, EEG, neural oscillations, entrainment
  • SUPERVISORS: Katerina Kandylaki and Sonja Kotz

Bente Vissel (BSc UCM – Thesis Project)
  • PROJECT: “NERHYMUS – the NEurobiology of RHYthm: effects of MUSical expertise on natural speech comprehension”
  • TOPICS/SKILLS: TMS, EEG, MNE-Python data analysis, language processing
  • SUPERVISORS: Katerina Kandylaki

Past Interns