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This is my current curriculum vitae. You can download a pdf via the provided link.

General Information

Full Name Max Schulz
Date of Birth 18th November 1996
Languages English, German, Spanish
E-Mail max.schulz@uni-luebeck.de
Homepage mxschlz.github.io
Telephone 4945131013605
Address Maria-Goeppert-Straße 9a, 23562 Lübeck

Education

  • 2020 - 2024
    M. Sc. Biology
    University Leipzig, Germany
    • Thesis in acoustic and computational neuroscience, "AI-Supported Evidence For Spectro-Temporal Primacy in Auditory Numerosity Judgment"
    • Tutoring how to prepare, conduct and analyze psychoacoustic electroencephalogram (EEG) experiments with Python
    • Implementation of custom-written platform which enables asynchronous and simultaneous operation of multiple devices (cameras and processors mainly) via a Python interface (AG Neurobiology)
    • Development of a custom analysis tool which enables EEG-analysis in MNE-Python (AG Neurobiology)
  • 2017 - 2021
    B. Sc. Biology
    University Leipzig
    • Bachelor Thesis in auditory neuroscience, "Measuring Auditory Tuning Curves With EEG"
  • 2016 - 2017
    B. Sc. Biology
    Justus-Liebig University Gießen

Experience

  • 2024 - now
    PhD Candidate
    University of Lübeck, Germany
    • Researching subprocesses of auditory selective attention, specifically delineating target enhancement from distractor capture and suppression.
    • Utilizing EEG and webcam-based eye and head tracking to study neuro-cognitive mechanisms in young and older adults and infants.
    • Supervised by Dr. Malte Wöstmann and Prof. Dr. Jonas Obleser in the Auditory Cognition Lab.
  • 2024
    Student Assistant
    Max-Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences
    • Assisting in the implementation of electrical cortical field simulations for optimization of transcranial magnetic stimulation approaches with PyNibs (Prof. Dr. Gesa Hartwigsen).
  • 2021 - 2024
    Student Assistant
    Max-Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences
    • Assisting in study preparation, conduction, and analysis in the Psychology Department (Prof. Dr. Christian Doeller).
    • Conducting behavioral, eye-tracking, virtual-reality, and fMRI studies.

Open Source Projects

  • 2020 - now
    mxschlz
    • My GitHub repository, mostly containing Python containers for experiment and psychological analysis scripts.

Academic Interests

  • Selective Attention
  • Auditory Scene Analysis
  • Electroencephalography (EEG)

Talks & Symposia

  • June 2026
    Symposium Chair & Speaker
    Psychologie und Gehirn (PuG) 2026, Heidelberg, Germany
    • {"Organized and chaired the symposium \"Dynamics of Enhancement and Suppression"=>"Integrating Neural and Behavioral Perspectives on Selective Attention\""}
  • March 2026
    Symposium Speaker
    Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen (TeaP) 2026, Tübingen, Germany
    • Held a talk titled "Behavioral and neural signatures of extracting regularities from relevant and irrelevant sequences of sound"
  • Jan. 2026
    Invited Talk
    Marlene Meyer's Lab, Donders Institute, Nijmegen, Netherlands
    • Presented research on the infant OCAPI (Objective Coding of Attention Pipeline for Infants) project

Teaching

  • June 2026
    EEG Workshop Instructor
    HörHanse Tage 2026, Lübeck, Germany
    • Designed and conducted an interactive workshop on EEG application, setup, and analysis pipeline for ~50 participants
  • Occasional
    Seminar Instructor (Statistics & EEG)
    University of Lübeck & University of Leipzig, Germany
    • Instructed student seminars on statistical methods and experimental EEG application (preprocessing, design, and data analysis)
  • 2020 - 2024
    Student Tutor (Psychoacoustic EEG)
    University of Leipzig, Germany
    • Tutored students in preparing, conducting, and analyzing psychoacoustic EEG experiments using Python and PsychoPy

Skills

Programming
Python PsychoPy, MNE-Python, PyNibs, numpy, scipy
Bash / Git
R
Research & Methods
Electroencephalography (EEG)
Webcam-based Eye & Head Tracking
Psychoacoustics
Virtual Reality (VR)