MSc. Michael Hahn

 

PERSONAL INFORMATION

Address Hellbrunner Straße 34
5020 Salzburg
Austria
+43 (0) 662 – 8044 5146
Michael.Hahn[at]sbg.ac.at
Web page www.sleepscience.at
Date of birth 30th April 1991
Nationality German

EDUCATION

since March 2017 Student of the Doctoral College “Imaging the Mind” funded by the FWF Austrian Science Fund (W1233-G17), University of Salzburg, Austria
since December 2016 PhD student at the Paris-Lodron-University of Salzburg, Austria, Centre for Cognitive Neuroscience (CCNS), Laboratory for „Sleep and Consciousness Research“. Supervisor: Ass. Prof. Dr. Kerstin Hoedlmoser
October 2014 – November 2017 Studies of psychology (Master) at University of Salzburg, Austria, Topic of master’s thesis: “Maturational changes of sleep spindles and slow oscillations and their impact on memory consolidation and general cognitive abilities” Supervisor: Ass. Prof. Dr. Kerstin Hoedlmoser
October 2011 –
July 2014
Studies of psychology (Bachelor) at University of Salzburg, Austria
2001 – 2010 Abitur, Albert-Einstein-Gymnasium, Germany

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

since December 2016 PhD student at the Paris-Lodron-University of Salzburg, Austria, Centre for Cognitive Neuroscience (CCNS), Laboratory for „Sleep and Consciousness Research“. Supervisor: Ass. Prof. Dr. Kerstin Hoedlmoser

INTERNSHIPS, SUMMER SCHOOLS, WORKSHOPS

January 2018 Winter School: 3rd Annual DK ‘Imaging the Mind’ Winter School, ‘Foundations of Cognitive Neuroscience’, Salzburg, Austria, January 8th – 9th 2018
November 2017 Workshop: Scientific Writing, Salzburg, Austria, October 10th – 13th 2017
June 2017 Summer School: 2nd Annual DK ‘Imaging the Mind’ Summer School, ‘Career Planning: From PhD to Postdoc’, Salzburg, Austria, July 5th & September 13th 2017
January 2017 Winter School: 2nd Annual DK ‘Imaging the Mind’ Winter School, ‘Bayesian Statistics and Cognitive Modelling’, Eugendorf, Austria, January 25th – 27th 2017
September 2016 – November 2016 Research internship at Laboratory for „Sleep and Consciousness Research“, University of Salzburg, Austria
July 2013 –
September 2013
Research internship at the geriatric rehabilitation of Robert-Bosch Hospital, Germany

PUBLICATIONS

2018 Hahn, M., Joechner, A., Roell, J., Schabus, M., Heib, D.P.J., Gruber, G., Peigneaux, P., & Hoedlmoser K. (2018). Developmental changes of sleep spindles and their impact on sleep‐dependent memory consolidation and general cognitive abilities: A longitudinal approach. Developmental Science. Doi: 10.1111/desc.12706
2017 Hahn, M. & Hoedlmoser, K. (2017). Altersbedingte Veränderung schlafspezifischer Gehirnoszillation. In M. Schimke & G. Lepperdinger (Eds.), Gesund Altern. Einblicke und Ausblicke zum Thema „Alt werden und gesund bleiben“ (pp. 240 – 249). Doi: 10.1007/978-3-658-19973-9

TALKS

September 2018 Slow oscillation-spindle-coupling from childhood to adolescence – growing into synchrony! Talk presented at the 24th Congress of the European Sleep Research Society (ESRS), Basel, Switzerland, September 25th-28th, 2018
July 2018 Decoding memory reactivation during sleep spindles and slow oscillations – a study concept. Talk presented at the Young Scientists Symposium of the 2nd  Salzburg Mind-Brain Annual Meeting (SAMBA), Salzburg, Austria, July 12th-13th, 2018
December 2017 Hints for different consolidation processes of complex gross motor skills between adults and adolescents. Talk presented at the “Sleep ‘n’ Cycle” Symposium, Salzburg, Austria, December 6th-7th, 2017
March 2017 The impact of developmental changes of sleep spindles on declarative learning and general cognitive abilities – a longitudinal approach. Talk presented at the 3rd  Wintersymposium “Sleep, Cognition and Consciousness”, Kaprun, Austria, March 2nd-5th, 2017

POSTER PRESENTATIONS

July 2018 Hahn, M., Helfrich, R.F., Heib, D. P. J., Schabus, M., & Hoedlmoser, K. (2018). Growing into synchrony? Slow oscillation-trough-locked spindle activity decreases from childhood to adolescence. Poster presented at the 2nd Salzburg Mind-Brain Annual Meeting (SAMBA), Salzburg, Austria, July 12th-13th, 2018
 May 2018 Hahn, M., Joechner, A., Heib, D. P. J., Gruber, G., Schabus, M., & Hoedlmoser, K. (2018). Developmental changes of sleep spindles and slow waves related to memory consolidation hint at altered slow wave-spindle-coupling from childhood to adolescence. Poster presented at the 2nd International Conference on Sleep Spindle and Related Phenomena, Budapest, Hungary May 24th – 26th, 2018
 April 2018 Hahn, M., Joechner, A., Heib, D. P. J., Gruber, G., Schabus, M., & Hoedlmoser, K. (2018). Development of sleep spindles and slow waves predicts sleep-dependent memory consolidation enhancement across adolescence. Poster presented at the 27th ASRA Annual Meeting, Fuschl, Austria April 6th – 7th, 2018
August 2017 Hahn, M., Joechner, A., Heib, D. P. J., Schabus, M., & Hoedlmoser, K. (2017). Developmental changes of slow wave up-states relate to increased cognitive abilities across adolescence. Poster presented at the 13th International Conference on Cognitive Neuroscience (ICON), Amsterdam, The Netherlands August 5th-9th, 2017
 July 2017 Hahn, M., Joechner, A., Heib, D. P. J., Schabus, M., & Hoedlmoser, K. (2017). Developmental changes of slow waves during NREM sleep reflect changes in cognitive abilities across adolescence. Poster presented at the first Salzburg Mind Brain Annual Meeting (SAMBA), Salzburg, Austria July 13th – 14th, 2017

AWARDS

 April 2018 1st  poster prize of the Austrian Sleep Research Association for “Development of sleep spindles and slow waves predicts sleep-dependent memory consolidation enhancement across adolescence”

 

SOFTWARE SKILLS

General Microsoft Office (Expert)
Matlab (Beginner)
Statistics SPSS (Expert)
R (Beginner)
EEG acquisition Brainproducts BrainAmp (Advanced)
Alphatrace (Ambulatory EEG-Amplifier) (Advanced)
Neuroscan SynAmp (Advanced)
EEG data processing Brainvision Analyzer (Expert)
EEGlab (Beginner)
Fieldtrip (Beginner)
Experimental control Presentation (Beginner)

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Developmental aspects of sleep
  Sleep-dependent memory consolidation
  Oscillatory brain dynamics