since 2011: Research Fellow at the Sobell Department of Motor Neuroscience and Movement Disorders, ION, UCL since 2012: Marie Curie Fellowship 2011-2012: DAADPostdoctoral Fellowship
2011: PhD (Dr. rer. nat.) Neuroscience (with honors, summa cum laude) University of Freiburg, Germany
2007 - 2011: PhD student at the Bernstein Center Freiburg & Institute of Biology I University of Freiburg, Germany PhD Fellowship from the German National Academic Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes)
2006: PhD student at the Inst. of Med. Psychol. and Behavioral Neurobiology University of Tübingen, Germany (continuation of diploma projects)
2005: Diploma in Bioinformatics (with distinction), Univ. of Tübingen, Germ.
1999 - 2005: Study of Bioinformatics (Neurobiology, Theoretical Informatics) University of Tübingen, Germany
Misc
2011: INCF Travel Grant for the FENS-IBRO-Hertie Winter School 2010/2011, Austria: "The System Neuroscience of Primate Hand Function"
2008: Co-organiser of the BCI Competition IV
since 2006: member of the German Neuroscience Society (NWG)
Publications
Peer reviewed articles
Waldert S, Roger N Lemon, Alexander Kraskov (2013), Influence of spiking activity on cortical local field potentials, Journal of Physiology (article)
Waldert S, Tüshaus L, Kaller CP, Aertsen A, Mehring C (2012), fNIRS exhibits weak tuning to hand movement direction, PLoS ONE 7(11) (article)
Tangermann M, Müller KR, Aertsen A, Birbaumer N, Braun C, Brunner C, Leeb R, Mehring C, Miller KJ, Müller-Putz G, Nolte G, Pfurtscheller G, Preissl H, Schalk G, Schlögl A, Vidaurre C, Waldert S, Blankertz B (2012), Review of the BCI Competition IV, Frontiers in Neuroprosthetics 6 (article)
Braun D, Waldert S, Aertsen A, Wolpert D, Mehring C (2010), Structure learning in a sensorimotor association task, PLoS One 5(1) (article)
Waldert S and Pistohl T, Braun C, Ball T, Aertsen A, Mehring C (2009), A Review on Directional Information in Neural Signals for Brain-Machine Interfaces, Journal of Physiology Paris 103(3-5):244-254 Pubmed
Waldert S, Preissl H, Demandt E, Braun C, Birbaumer N, Aertsen A, Mehring C (2008), Hand movement direction decoded from MEG and EEG. Journal of Neuroscience 28(4):1000-1008 Pubmed
Waldert S, Bensch M, Bogdan M, Rosenstiel W, Schölkopf B, Lowery CL, Eswaran H, Preissl H (2007), Real-Time Fetal Heart Monitoring in Biomagnetic Measurements Using Adaptive Real-Time ICA, IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering 54(10):1867-1874 Pubmed
Conference Papers
Blumberg J, Rickert J, Waldert S, Schulze-Bonhage A, Aertsen A, Mehring C (2007), Adaptive Classification for Brain Computer Interfaces. Conf Proc IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc. 2007;1:2536-2539 Pubmed
Waldert S, Braun C, Preissl H, Birbaumer N, Aertsen A, Mehring C (2007), Decoding Performance for Hand Movements: EEG vs. MEG. Conf Proc IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc. 2007;1:5346-5348 Pubmed
Waldert S, Gutierrez D, Nehorai A, McKenzie D, Lowery CL, Murphy P, Eswaran H, Preissl H (2005), Real-time access of magnetoencephalographic/cardiographic data: technical realization and Application to Online Fetal Heart Rate Recording. Conf Proc IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc. 2005;1:5987-5990 Pubmed
Abstracts
Waldert S, Philipp R, Vigneswaran G, Kilner JM, Lemon RN, Kraskov A (2013), Modulation of the intra-cortical LFP during action execution and observation, 43th Neuroscience, San Diego, USA
Philipp R, Vigneswaran G, Waldert S, Lemon RN, Kraskov A (2013), The influence of gaze on the activity of macaque M1 and F5 mirror neurons, 43th Neuroscience, San Diego, USA
Vigneswaran G, Philipp R, Waldert S, Lemon R, Kraskov A (2012), Do mirror neurons exist in macaque primary motor cortex?, 42th Neuroscience, New Orleans, USA
Lemon R, Vigneswaran G, Waldert S, Philipp R, Kraskov A (2012), Extracellular spike duration in macaque M1 and PMd pyramidal neurons is correlated with axonal conduction velocity, 42th Neuroscience, New Orleans, USA
Galán F, Witte M, Waldert S, Aertsen A, Birbaumer N, Braun C, Mehring C (2010), A non-invasive BMI based on decoding of movement direction, TOBI Workshop, Graz, Austria
Witte M., Galán F, Waldert S, Aertsen A, Birbaumer N, Braun B, Mehring C (2010), An on-line BCI system using hand movement recognition from MEG, BCI Meeting 2010, Asilomar, USA
Witte M., Galán F, Waldert S, Birbaumer N, Mehring C, Braun B (2009), Combining online classification and human learning for detection of hand movement direction in an MEG-BCI, 15th Human Brain Mapping, San Francisco, USA
Waldert S, Kobak D, Aertsen A, Mehring C (2009), Extrapolation of a motor skill after structural motor learning, 19th NCM Conference on Neural Control of Movement, Hawaii
Kobak D, Waldert S, Aertsen A, Mehring C (2009), Learning visuomotor rotations in three dimensions, 19th NCM Conference on Neural Control of Movement, Hawaii
Rickert J, Ball T, Stieglitz T, Henle C, Fischer J, Galán F, Hammer J, Liao X, Meier W, Milekovic T, Pistohl T, Raab M, Waldert S, Schulze-Bonhage A, Aertsen A, Mehring C (2009), Towards an electrocorticogram based brain-computer interface using the neural correlates of natural hand movements: research and development at the Bernstein center in Freiburg. BBCI Workshop 2009, Berlin
Waldert S, Braun C, Preissl H, Birbaumer N, Aertsen A, Cardoso de Oliveira S, Mehring C (2007), Applicability of hand movement decoding in MEG-based Brain-Machine-Interfaces; 37th Neuroscience, San Diego, USA
Waldert S, Preissl H, Birbaumer N, Aertsen A, Mehring C (2007), Decoding of Hand Movement Directions from Human MEG-Signals. Neurex BCCN Meeting 2007, 163-164.
Waldert S, Birbaumer N, Aertsen A, Preissl H, Mehring C (2006), Encoding of Movement Direction in Motor Cortical MEG-Signals, 15th International BIOMAG Conference on Biomagnetism, Vancouver, Canada