PERSONAL INFORMATION
| Address | Hellbrunner Straße 34 5020 Salzburg Austria christopher.hoehn@plus.ac.at |
| Web page | www.sleepscience.at |
| Nationality | German |
EDUCATION
| since October 2020 | PhD student and associated to the Doctoral College “Imaging the Mind” funded by the FWF Austrian Science Fund (W1233-G17) at the Paris-Lodron-University of Salzburg, Austria. Supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Mag. Dr. Kerstin Hödlmoser |
| October 2018 – August 2020 | Master-Degree (M.Sc.) in Psychology (graduation with distinction) at the Paris-Lodron-University of Salzburg, Austria. Topic of master thesis: “The impact of smartphone night-shift modes on alertness, sleep and memory consolidation”. Supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Mag. Dr. Kerstin Hödlmoser |
| October 2015 – July 2018 | Bachelor-Degree (B.Sc.) in Psychology (graduation with distinction) at the Paris-Lodron-University in Salzburg (Austria) |
| September 2014 – August 2015 | Voluntary Year of Social Service (FSJ) at Hochfränkische Werkstätten Hof, Germany |
| 2005 -2014 | Abitur, Schiller-Gymnasium Hof, Germany (graduation from High School) |
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
| since October 2020 | University assistant (PhD student) at the Department of Psychology, Paris-Lodron-University of Salzburg, Austria |
| October 2019 – July 2020 | Research assistant in the project “How SMART is it to go to bed with a PHONE?” funded by the FWF Austrian Science Fund, Salzburg, Austria |
| July 2017 – August 2020 | Tutor for Statistics at the Department of Psychology, Paris-Lodron-University Salzburg, Austria |
| October 2017 – July 2019 | Study assistant / Research assistant in different projects of the Centre for Cognitive Neuroscience and the SCI-TReCS at the Department of Neurology of the Christian-Doppler-Clinic in Salzburg, Austria. |
INTERNSHIPS, SUMMER SCHOOLS, WORKSHOPS
| February 2022 | Winterschool “DK+ Imaging the Mind”, Werfenweng, Austria |
| July 2021 | Summer- & Winterschool “Evolutionary Approaches to Cognitive Neuroscience & Data Visualisation with R”, Werfenweng, Austria. |
| October 2020 | Workshop “Sleep Staging” with MPH Marion Böck, Salzburg, Austria. |
| July 2020 | Summer School “Science Communication”, Faculty of Natural Science, Paris-Lodron-University of Salzburg, Austria. |
| February 2020 | Winter-Symposium “Sleep, Cognition and Consciousness”, Werfenweng, Austria. |
| June 2018 | Workshop “Missing Values in R”, Paris-Lodron-University of Salzburg, Austria. |
| January 2018 | Workshop “4. Salzburger EEG-Kurs (Grundkurs nach ÖeGKN)“, Paracelsus-Medical-University, Christian Doppler Clinic, Salzburg, Austria. |
| August 2017 | Research Internship at the Epilepsy Monitoring Unit of the Christian Doppler Clinic in Salzburg, Austria. |
AWARDS & SCHOLARSHIPS
| 2020 | Merit scholarship for academic performance in the studies of Psychology (Master) at the University of Salzburg, Austria |
| September 2019 | Young Investigators Award of the Österreichische Alzheimer Gesellschaft (ÖAG) |
| 2018 | Merit scholarship for academic performance in the studies of Psychology (Bachelor) at the University of Salzburg, Austria |
PUBLICATIONS & POSTER PRESENTATIONS (presenting author underlined)
| October 2023 (Poster + Talk) | Höhn, C., Hahn, M.A., Gruber, G., Cajochen, C., & Hoedlmoser, K. (2023). Effects of evening smartphone use on sleep and declarative memory consolidation in adolescents and young adults. Poster & Talk at the World Sleep Society Congress. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, October 20th – 25th 2023. |
| June 2023 (Poster) | Höhn, C., Hahn, M.A., Gruber, G., Cajochen, C., & Hoedlmoser, K. (2023). Preliminary Results: Effects of smartphone use on sleep in adolescents and young adults. Poster presented at the Annual Congress of the Austrian Sleep Research Society (ASRA). Linz, Austria, June 23rd – 24th 2023. |
| May 2023 (Poster) | Höhn, C., Hahn, M.A., Cajochen, C., & Hoedlmoser, K. (2023). Preliminary Results: Effects of evening smartphone use on sleep and declarative memory consolidation in adolescents and young adults. Poster presented at the 34th Congress of the Society for Light Treatment and Biological Rhythms (SLTBR). Lausanne, Switzerland, May 30th – June 1st 2023. |
| September 2022 | Höhn, C., Hahn, M.A., Lendner, J.D., & Hoedlmoser, K. (2022). Spectral slope and Lempel-Ziv complexity as robust markers of brain states during sleep and wakefulness. bioRxiv. https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.09.10.507390 |
| September 2022 (Poster) | Höhn, C., Hahn, M.A., Lendner, J.D., & Hoedlmoser, K. (2022). Utilizing spectral slope and neural complexity of human scalp EEG to differentiate cognitive states during sleep. Poster presented at the 26th Congress of the European Sleep Research Society (ESRS). Athens, Greece, September 27th – 30th 2022. |
| May 2022 (Poster) | Höhn, C., Hahn, M.A., & Hoedlmoser, K. (2022). Differentiating cognitive states and task demands by aperiodic electrophysiological markers in humans. Poster presented at the International Conference of Cognitive Neuroscience (ICON). Helsinki, Finland, May 18th – 22nd 2022. |
| October 2021 | Schmid, S.R., Höhn, C., Bothe, K., Plamberger, C.P., Angerer, M., Pletzer, B., & Hoedlmoser, K. (2021). How Smart Is It to Go to Bed with the Phone? The Impact of Short-Wavelength Light and Affective States on Sleep and Circadian Rhythms. Clocks & Sleep, 3. https://doi.org/10.3390/clockssleep3040040 |
| September 2021 (Talk) | Höhn, C. (2021). The impact of smartphone use and short-wavelength light on circadian rhythm, sleep and alertness. Oral presentation at the Annual Congress of the Austrian Neuroscience Association. Salzburg, Austria, September 28th – 30th 2021. |
| June 2021 (Talk) | Höhn, C. (2021). Smartphone im Bett – doch nicht so smart?. Oral presentation at the Annual Congress of the Austrian Sleep Research Society (ASRA). Virtual Congress, June 18th – 19th 2021. |
| April 2021 | Schwimmbeck, F., Staffen, W., Höhn, C., Rossini, F., Renz, N., Lobendanz, M., Reichenpfader, P., Iglseder, B., Aigner, L., Trinka, E., & Höller, Y. (2021). Cognitive Effects of Montelukast: A Pharmaco-EEG Study. Brain Sciences, 11, 547. https://doi.org/10.3390/brainsci11050547 |
| January 2021 | Höhn, C., Schmid, S.R., Plamberger, C.P., Bothe, K., Angerer, M., Gruber, G., Pletzer, B., & Hoedlmoser, K. (2021). Preliminary Results: The Impact of Smartphone Use and Short-Wavelength Light during the Evening on Circadian Rhythm, Sleep and Alertness. Clocks & Sleep, 3. https://doi.org/10.3390/clockssleep3010005 |
| September 2020 (Poster) | Höhn, C., Schmid, S.R., Bothe, K., Plamberger, C., & Hödlmoser, K. (2020). Exposure to smartphone LED-screens in the evening and their impact on sleep-dependent memory consolidation. ePoster presented at the 25th Congress of the European Sleep Research Society. Virtual Congress, September 22nd -24th 2020. |
| February 2020 | Höller, Y., Höhn, C., Schwimmbeck, F., Plancher, G., & Trinka, E. (2020). Effects of Antiepileptic Drug Tapering on Episodic Memory as Measured by Virtual Reality Tests. Frontiers in Neurology, 11, 93. https://doi.org/10.3389/fneur.2020.00093 |
| February 2020 | Höller, Y., Höhn, C., Schwimmbeck, F., Plancher, G., & Trinka, E. (2020). A virtual reality paradigm to assess episodic memory: Validation-dataset for six parallel versions and a structured behavioral assessment. Data in Brief, 29, 105279. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dib.2020.105279 |
| September 2019 (Poster) | Höhn, C., Scherer, K., Schwimmbeck, F., Rossini, F., Aigner, L., Lobendanz, M., Reichenpfader, P., Staffen, W. & Höller, Y. (2019). Effects of an 8-week treatment with Montelukast on cognitive functioning in humans. Abstract presented at the 32nd Annual Meeting of the Österreichische Alzheimer Gesellschaft (ÖAG), Gars-Thunau, Austria, September 20th – 21st 2019. |
| September 2018 (Poster) | Renz, N., Höhn, C., Frey, V., Schwenker, K., van Schalkwijk, F., Höller, Y. & Trinka, E. (2018). Motor Imagery in patients with SCI measured by the MIQ-RS. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting/Retreat of the Spinal Cord Injury and Tissue Regeneration Centre Salzburg (SCI-TReCS), Wagrain, Austria, September 13th – 14th 2018. |
SOFTWARE SKILLS
| General | Microsoft Office (Expert) Matlab & Psychtoolbox (Intermediate) |
| Statistics | R (Intermediate) SPSS (Expert) Jamovi (Advanced) |
| EEG acquisition | Brainvision Recorder (Intermediate) Netstation (Electrical Geodesics, EGI) (Beginner) |
| EEG data processing | Brainvision Analyzer (Expert) Fieldtrip (Advanced) |