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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 |
| max.schulz@uni-luebeck.de | |
| Homepage | mxschlz.github.io |
| Telephone | 4945131013605 |
| Address | Maria-Goeppert-Straße 9a, 23562 Lübeck |
Education
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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)
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2017 - 2021 B. Sc. Biology
University Leipzig - Bachelor Thesis in auditory neuroscience, "Measuring Auditory Tuning Curves With EEG"
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2016 - 2017 B. Sc. Biology
Justus-Liebig University Gießen
Experience
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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.
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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).
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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
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2020 - now mxschlz
- My GitHub repository, mostly containing Python containers for experiment and psychological analysis scripts.
Academic Interests
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Selective Attention
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Auditory Scene Analysis
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Electroencephalography (EEG)
Talks & Symposia
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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\""}
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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"
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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
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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
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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)
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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) | |||||