PERSONAL INFORMATION
| Address | Hellbrunner Straße 34 5020 Salzburg Austria +43 (0) 662 – 8044 5143 pavlos.topalidis@sbg.ac.at |
| Webpage | www.sleepscience.at |
| Date of birth | 2th August 1993 |
| Nationality | Greek |
EDUCATION
| 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 | Erasmus Scholarship at the University of Giessen, Giessen, Germany. |
| September 2012 – June 2016 |
B.Sc. (Hons) 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
| 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 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. |
| April 2012 – July 2013 |
Teaching Assistant in Advanced Statistics & SPSS Workshops at the University of Aberdeen, UK. Supervisor: Dr. David Sutherland. |
INTERNSHIPS
| 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. |
PUBLICATIONS
| 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
| July 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. |
SOFTWARE SKILLS
| General | Microsoft Office (Expert) Matlab (Beginner) |
| Statistics | R (Intermediate) SPSS (Advanced) |
| EEG acquisition | Brainvision Recorder (Begginer) |
| EEG data processing | Brainvision Analyzer (Intermediate/Advnaced) EEGlab (Begginer) Fieldtrip (Begginer) |
| Experimental control | Presentation (Beginner) |
RESEARCH INTERESTS
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Information processing during sleep: memory consolidation and sensory perception Brain Oscillations Psychophysiology |