“I have no special talent, I’m only passionately curious” -Albert Einstein
PERSONAL INFORMATION
| Name | Mohamed S. Ameen |
| mohamed.ameen@plus.ac.at | |
| Address | Hellbrunner Straße 34 5020 Salzburg Austria +43 (0) 662 – 8044 5146 |
| Webpage | LinkedIn profile |
| Nationality | Egypt |
EDUCATION
| 10.2019 – 03.2024 | PhD in Cognitive Neuroscience – Doctoral College “Imaging the Mind” – Center for Cognitive Neuroscience Salzburg (CCNS), University of Salzburg, Austria – Supervisor: Ass.-Prof. Mag. Dr.rer.nat. Kerstin Hoedlmoser |
| 09.2014 – 06.2016 | M.Sc. in Neuroscience – Joint Master in Neuroscience (JMN) – Universities of Strasbourg, Freiburg, & Basel – Master Thesis Project at the Consciousness and Cognition Lab – Cambridge University – Supervisor: Dr. Tristan Bekinschtein |
| 09.2008 – 06.2013 | B.Sc. in Pharmacy – Faculty of Pharmacy – Cairo University, Egypt – Honours |
EMPLOYMENT
| Since 04.2024 | Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Salzburg, Austria / Department of Psychology / Laboratory for Sleep, Consciousness, and Cognition Research |
| 09.2019 – 03.2024 | PhD Researcher at the University of Salzburg, Austria / Department of Psychology / Laboratory for Sleep, Consciousness, and Cognition Research |
| 03.2017 – 08.2019 | Research Assistant at the University of Salzburg, Austria / Department of Psychology / Centre for Cognitive Neuroscience / Laboratory for Sleep, Consciousness, and Cognition Research |
| 11.2016 – 02.2017 | Senior Pharmacist – S.A.T pharmacies – Cairo, Egypt |
| 09.2015 – 01.2016 | Student Assistant – Radiology Department – University Hospital Freiburg, Freiburg am Breisgau, Germany |
GRANTS & FELLOWSHIPS
| 02.2024 | Early Career Postdoctoral Research Grant (€42.693,00) – University of Salzburg – Project: “REM Sleep Structure and Functions” |
| 05.2022 | Grant for short-term academic work abroad (€1.950,00) – University of Salzburg – Austria |
| 09.2019 | DOC doctoral fellowship (€115.000,00) – Austrian Academy of Sciences (OEAW) – Project: “Generating predictions during Sleep” |
| 02.2017 | Meetings and Courses Fellowship (€500,00) – European Sleep Research Society (ESRS) |
| 06.2016 | Bourse Boussole International mobility aid (€1000,00) – Strasbourg – France |
PUBLICATIONS
| 2024b |
Florea, C., Riemann, M., Schmidt, F., Preiss, J., Reisenberger, E., Angerer, M., Ameen, M.S., Heib, D. P. J., Roehm, D., & Schabus, M. (2024). Neural speech tracking in newborns: Prenatal learning and contributing factors (p. 2024.03.18.585222). bioRxiv. https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.03.18.585222
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| 2024a |
Ameen, M. S., Jacobs, J., Schabus, M., Hoedlmoser, K., & Donoghue, T. (2024). The Temporal Dynamics of Aperiodic Neural Activity Track Changes in Sleep Architecture (p. 2024.01.25.577204). bioRxiv. https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.01.25.577204
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| 2023 |
Ameen, M. S., Petzka, M., Peigneux, P., & Hoedlmoser, K. (2023). Post-training sleep modulates motor adaptation and task-related beta oscillations. Journal of Sleep Research, e14082. https://doi.org/10.1111/jsr.14082
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| 2022 |
Ameen, M. S., Heib, D. P. J., Blume, C., & Schabus, M. (2022). The Brain Selectively Tunes to Unfamiliar Voices during Sleep. Journal of Neuroscience, 42(9), 1791–1803. https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2524-20.2021
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| 2020 |
van Schalkwijk, F. J., Hauser, T., Hoedlmoser, K., Ameen, M. S., Wilhelm, F. H., Sauter, C., Klösch, G., Moser, D., Gruber, G., Anderer, P., Saletu, B., Parapatics, S., Zeitlhofer, J., & Schabus, M. (2020). Procedural memory consolidation is associated with heart rate variability and sleep spindles. Journal of Sleep Research, 29(3), e12910. https://doi.org/10.1111/jsr.12910
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| 2019 |
Ameen, M. S., Cheung, L. M., Hauser, T., Hahn, M. A., & Schabus, M. (2019). About the Accuracy and Problems of Consumer Devices in the Assessment of Sleep. Sensors, 19(19), 4160.
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TALKS
| 12.2023 | Annual Meeting of the German Society for Sleep Research adn Sleep Medicine – “The Brain Selectively Tunes to Unfamiliar Voices During Sleep.” |
| 02.2023 | 5th Symposium on Sleep, Cognition, and Consciousness – “Exploring model complexity and temporal dynamics of aperiodic activity during sleep.” |
| 03.2022 | (Guest Lecture) Master seminar organized by the European Federation of Psychology Students (EFPS) in Vienna – “Dare to Dream: the content and function of dreams.” |
| 01.2022 | 1st Summit of Neuroscience, Egypt “How connected is the (sleeping) brain to the world?” |
| 09.2020 | 25th Congress of the European Sleep Research Society (ESRS 2020) – “The preferential processing of relevant sounds continues during NREM sleep.” |
| 02.2020 | 4th Symposium on Sleep, Cognition, and Consciousness – “K-complex mediate the preferential processing of relevant sounds during NREM sleep.” |
| 03.2017 | 3rd Symposium on Sleep, Cognition, and Consciousness – “Characterizing the effects of transcranial alternating current stimulation (tACS) on 40Hz oscillations in the transition from Wakefulness to Sleep.” |
AWARDS
| 09.2023 | Young Talent Award for Sleep Research – German Society for Sleep Research and Sleep Medicine (DGSM) |
| 11.2022 | Young Investigators Award (Life Sciences) – University of Salzburg |
| 09.2020 | Finalist – Young Scientist Abstract Award – the 25th Congress of the European Sleep Research Society (ESRS2020) |
| 02.2020 | Best presentation (2nd prize) – 4th Symposium on Sleep, Cognition, and Consciousness |
| 12.2019 | Poster prize – Salzburg Neuroscience annual meeting ’19 |
RESEARCH VISITS & INTERNSHIPS
| 10.2022 – 02.2023 | Research stay at the Electrophysiology, Memory, and Navigation Laboratory – Columbia University, New York, USA |
| 05.2022 – 08.2022 | Research stay at the Neuropsychology and Functional Neuroimaging Research Unit (UR2NF) – Free University of Brussels (ULB), Belgium |
| 03.2016 – 07.2016 | Master Thesis internship – Consciousness and Cognition Lab – Cambridge University, UK |
| 09.2015 – 01.2016 | Research intership – Advanced Brain Imaging lab – Radiology Department – Univeristy Hospital Freiburg, Germany |
| 06.2015 – 07.2015 | Student internship – Biomicrotechnology lab, Dept. of Microsystems Engineering, University of Freiburg, Germany |
ADDITIONAL ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES
| 10.2019 – 01.2024 | Student Speaker – Doctoral College “Imaging the Mind” |
TECHNICAL & SOFT SKILLS
| DATA Acquisition | hdEEG: EGI Geodesic – Brainproducts BrainAmp – Alphatrace ambulatory EEG system fMRI: SIEMENS 3T PRISMA Magnetom Wrist actigraphy: MotionWatch (CamNTech) – MiFit (Xiaomi) – ActiGraph wGT3X-BT (ActiGraph) |
| DATA processing and Analysis |
Python (Advanced) MATLab (Advanced) R and Rmarkdown (Intermediate) Toolboxes: |
| DATA Management | SQL (Beginner) |
| Psychophysics | Psychtoolbox (Advanced) Experiment builder (beginner) |
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Sleep and Consciousness
Neural Mechanisms of Cognitive Processing
Science Communication
(Non-)Oscillatory Brain Activity