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
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
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
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
POSTER PRESENTATIONS
September 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) |
Programming Languages | Matlab (intermediate); R (Advanced), Python (Beginner) |
Experimental Control | Psychotoolbox-Matlab (Beginner) |
Scientific Reporting | RMarkdown; Reproducible science rticles package. |
RESEARCH INTEREST
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