PERSONAL INFORMATION
| Address | Hellbrunner Straße 34 5020 Salzburg Austria +43 (0) 662 – 8044 5143 pavlos.topalidis@plus.ac.at |
| Webpage | www.sleepscience.at |
| Nationality | Greek |
EDUCATION
| May 2022 – October 2022 | Research Visit at Yale University, CT, USA. Research Topic: Evidence of hippocampal intracranial-electroencephalography engagement in memory recall and statistical learning of visuo-motor associations. Supervisor: Prof. Nicholas Turk-Browne. |
| since October 2019 | Student of the Doctoral College “Imaging the Mind” funded by the FWF Austrian Science Fund, University of Salzburg, Austria. |
| since October 2019 | Ph.D. student at University of Salzburg, Austria, Centre for Cognitive Neuroscience (CCNS), laboratory for „Sleep and Consciousness Research“. Supervisor: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Manuel Schabus. |
| October 2017 – September 2019 | M.Sc. Neuro-Cognitive Psychology, Elite Network of Bavaria Program, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU), Munich, Germany. Master thesis at Max-Planck Institute of Psychiatry on „The relationship between objective sleep and activity measures and symptomatology in a sample of healthy controls and patients with mood and anxiety disorders“. Supervisors: Prof. Paul Sauseng & Dr. Victor Spoormaker. |
| October 2013 – June 2014 | B.Sc. Psychology, Justus-Liebig-University, Giessen, Germany. Erasmus Scholarship. |
| September 2012 – June 2016 | B.Sc. (Hons, first class) Psychology, University of Aberdeen, UK. Bachelor thesis topic: „The Visual Influence of Ostracism“. Supervisors: Prof. Neil Macrae & Prof. Arash Sahraie. |
| 2008-2011 | 3rd High School of Katerini, Greece. |
RESEARCH & TEACHING EXPERIENCE
| October 2023 – June 2024 | Junior Lecturer at University of Salzburg, teaching about Human Cognition and Sleep, at Bachelor (BSc.) and Masters (MSc.) level. |
| August 2018 –May 2019 | Research Assistant at the faculty of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU) in collaboration with the German institute of Brain Stimulation (GCBS). Studied cognitive functions of depression and schizophrenia patients, using fMRI and transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS). Supervisors: Dr. Daniel Keeser & Prof. Frank Padberg. |
| November 2018- July 2019 | Research Assistant at the faculty of General & Experimental Psychology, at LMU. Studied the interplay of bottom-up and top-down processes in a visual search paradigm. Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Hermann Mueller & Dr. Marian Sauter. |
AWARDS & SCHOLARSHIPS
| February 2023 | Poster award at Sleep, Cognition and Consciousness Winter Symposium, Werfenweng, Austria. Poster title: Searching for predictive codes during sleep: Preliminary results of a full-night E/MEG study |
| November 2022 | Salzburg University research stay funding (1700€) at Yale University, USA. |
| October 2022 | Shortlisted for best poster award at the 26th European Sleep Research Society Conference, Athens, Greece. Poster Title: Decoding of auditory low-level stimulus properties and higher-order statistics in wakefulness and sleep |
| September 2021 | European Sleep Research Society (ESRS) 3rd Sleep School “Function of Sleep”, first price project presentation award in “Predictive Coding during Sleep”, Vrejus, France. press release |
| October 2013 | ERASMUS scholarship at Justus-Liebig-Universität, Gießen, Germany. |
INTERNSHIPS & TRAININGS
| 30th March 2023 | Cognitive behavioural therapy for insomnia (CBT-I), Deutsche Gesellschaft für Schlafforschung und Schlafmedizin e.V. |
| May 2022 | CITI Program: Good Clinical Practice (US FDA focus) – 48879523 – Under requirements set by Yale University. |
| May 2022 | CITI Program: Social-Behavioral-Educational program for Researchers – Basic/Refresher – Under requirements set by Yale University. |
| June 2015 | Trainee psychologist at the Mental Health Centre, Katerini, Greece. Supervisor: Ms Nota Voura, M.Sc. |
| November 2016- August 2017 | Psychologist & Mental Health counsellor at the Hellenic Military Force, Greece (Health Care division). |
PUBLICATIONS
| 2023b | Topalidis, P. I., Baron, S., Heib, D. P., Eigl, E. S., Hinterberger, A., & Schabus, M. (2023). From Pulses to Sleep Stages: Towards Optimised Sleep Classification Using Heart-Rate Variability. Sensors. |
| 2023 | Eigl, E. S., Hauser, T., Topalidis, P. I., & Schabus, M. (2023). On the efficacy of a CBT-I-based online program for sleep problems: a randomized controlled trial. Clocks & Sleep, 5(4), 590-603. |
| 2023a | Topalidis, P., Heib, D. P., Baron, S., Eigl, E. S., Hinterberger, A., & Schabus, M. (2023). The Virtual Sleep Lab—A Novel Method for Accurate Four-Class Sleep Staging Using Heart-Rate Variability from Low-Cost Wearables. Sensors, 23(5), 2390. |
| 2021 | Topalidis, P., Florea, C., Eigl, E-S., M., Kurapov, A., Leon, C. A. B., & Schabus, M. (2021). Evaluation of a Low-Cost Commercial Actigraph and Its Potential Use in Detecting Cultural Variations in Physical Activity and Sleep. Sensors. https://doi.org/10.3390/s21113774  |
| 2021 | Florea, C., Topalidis, P., Hauser, T., Angerer, M., Kurapov, A., Leon, C. A. B., … & Schabus, M. (2021). Sleep during COVID-19 lockdown: A cross-cultural study investigating job system relevance. Biochemical Pharmacology, 114463. Video Abstract. |
| 2020 | Topalidis, P., Zinchenko, A., Gädeke, J. C., & Föcker, J. (2020). The role of spatial selective attention in the processing of affective prosodies in congenitally blind adults: An ERP study. Brain Research, 146819. |
| 2020 | Pöhlchen, D., Leuchs, L., Binder, F. P., Blaskovich, B., Nantawisarakul, T., Topalidis, P., … & Czisch, M. (2020). No robust differences in fear conditioning between patients with fear-related disorders and healthy controls. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 103610. |
| 2017 | Golubickis, M., Sahraie, A., Hunt, R., Visokomogilski, A., Topalidis, P., & Macrae, N. (2017). The visual influence of ostracism. European Journal of Social Psychology, 48(2), 0182-0188. |
| 2015 | Macrae, N., Mitchell, P., Tait, A., McNamara, L., Golubickis, M., Topalidis, P., & Christian, M. (2015). Turning I into me: Imagining your future self. Consciousness and Cognition, 37, 207-213. |
POSTER PRESENTATIONS
| December 2023 | Topalidis, I., P., Eigl, E., Hinterberger A., & Schabus, M. (2023,12). Preliminary results of a 6-week single-blind online CBT-I program on daily subjective and objective sleep parameters, DGSM, Berlin, Germany. |
| October 2023 | Topalidis, P., Malgorzata, W., Weisz, N., Schabus, M. (2023,10). Neural signals of predictive codes in sleep: implicit grammar learning in a full night E/MEG study. World Sleep Conference, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. |
| October 2023 | Topalidis, P., Heib, D., Baron, S., Eigl, E., Hinterberger, A., & Schabus, M (2023,10). From Pulses to Sleep Stages: using Heart-Rate Variability from Low-Cost Wearable Devices for Accurate four-class sleep stage classification. World Sleep Conference, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. |
| July 2023 | Topalidis, P., Malgorzata, W., Weisz, N., Schabus, M. (2023,02). The brain implicitly distinguishes random from predictable syllables during an auditory statistical learning task. Does the same happen during sleep? Salzburg Mind-Brain Annual Meeting, Salzburg, Austria. |
| June 2023 | Topalidis, P., Heib, D., Baron, S., Eigl, E., Hinterberger, A., & Schabus, M (2023,06). The Virtual Sleep Lab: A Novel Method for Accurate Four-Class Sleep Staging Using Heart-Rate Variability from Low-Cost Wearables. ASRA conference (Österreichische Gesellschaft für Schlafmedizin und Schlafforschung), Linz, Austria. |
| February 2023 | Topalidis, P., Malgorzata, W., Weisz, N., Schabus, M. (2023,02). The brain distinguishes random from predictable syllables during implicit grammar learning. To what extent does An E/MEG study. Winter Symposium, Werfenweng, Austria |
| October 2022 | Topalidis, P., Reisinger, L., Schubert, J., Weisz, N., & Schabus, M. (2022, 10). Decoding of auditory low-level stimulus properties and higher-order statistics in wakefullness and sleep. 26th conference of the European Sleep Research Society, Athens, Greece |
| July 2022 | Topalidis, P., Reisinger, L, Schubert, J., Weisz, N., & Schabus, M. (2022, 03). Processing of random and predictable tone sequences in wakefulness and sleep. World Sleep Conference, Rome, Italy. |
| July 2022 | Topalidis, P., Reisinger, L., & Schabus, M. (2021, 07). Decoding of higher-order auditory sequence statistics during sleep: pilot results. Salzburg Annual Brain Meeting (SAMBA). Online event. |
| September 2020 | Topalidis, P., Ameen, M., Hauser, T., Heib, D., & Schabus, M. (2020, 07). Investigating top-down processing from wakefulness to sleep: behavioural results of a novel auditory paradigm in wakefulness. 25th conference of the European Sleep Research Society. Online Event. |
| November 2019 | Topalidis, P., Ameen, M., Hauser, T., Heib, D., & Schabus M. (2019,11) Generating predictions during sleep: Investigating top-down processing during sleep, Neuroscience Day, Salzburg, Austria. |
| April 2018 | Topalidis, P., Schenk, T., Röder, B., & Föcker, J. (2018, 05). Is the processing of affective prosody influenced by spatial attention in congenitally blind individuals? 4th Conference of Visual Search and Selective Attetnion (VSSA), Ammersee, Germany. |
METHODS & SOFTWARE SKILLS
| Data Acquisition | Encephalography (EEG); Polysomnography (PSG); Magnetoencephalography (MEG); Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI); Reaction times/Behavioural Data; Intracranial EEG; Actigraphy |
| Data Processing | Brainstorm (Beginner); EEGlab (Beginner); Fieldtrip (Advanced). |
| Data Analysis | Event-related Potentials (ERPs); Time-Frequency Analysis; Multilevel Pattern Analysis (MVPA); Data cleaning; Data manipulation; |
| Programming Languages | Matlab (Advanced); R (Advanced); Python (Beginner), SQL (Beginner) |
| Experimental Control | Psychotoolbox-Matlab (Beginner) |
| Scientific Reporting | RMarkdown; Reproducible science articles package. |
RESEARCH INTEREST
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