I am a PhD student at the Central Institute for Mental Health in Mannheim, Germany. For my thesis, I am working on the neurobiological and neuropsychological underpinnings of memory consolidation during sleep and how these processes might be disturbed for reward learning in addiction.

When I got to know R during my masters in psychology, I fell head over heels for it, especially how it brought me the stats education that lectures wouldn't provide. Right now, I am trying to broaden my statistical horizon because there is so much more I need to know. For my PhD, handling EEG data is vital, i.e. time-frequency analyses, cluster-based approaches etc.

I am also interested in simulations (in order to understand and test statistical approaches), in wich cases non-normal data is a problem and what to do about it and how to properly implement and interpret random effects.