Sarah Meissner
Curriculum Vitae
Sarah Meissner studied Psychology at the University of Konstanz with a focus on Clinical Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience. During her Master’s, she deepened her methodological knowledge and interest in Neuroscience during an internship at the Laboratories of Cognitive Neuroscience at Children’s Hospital Boston/Harvard Medical School. After finishing her Master’s thesis on altered oscillatory brain activity in Schizophrenia in 2014, she progressed to doing a PhD under the supervision of Prof. Bettina Pollok and Prof. Christian Bellebaum at the Institute of Clinical Neuroscience at the Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf. During this time, she investigated motor learning and its underlying oscillatory dynamics in Parkinson’s disease and healthy aging using magnetoencephalography (MEG). She was awarded her PhD in December 2017 and joined the Neural Control of Movement Lab as a postdoctoral researcher in November 2018.
Research Interests
Sarah Meissner has great interest in motor and cognitive functions and their underlying neural dynamics in both health and disease. To gain insight into these dynamics, she uses several neuroscientific methods such as MEG, EEG, or TMS. A large part of her PhD research focused upon the investigation of motor learning and the functional role of oscillatory brain activity in this type of learning in Parkinson’s disease as well as healthy aging. Besides the continuation of her work on Parkinson’s disease, a key focus of her postdoctoral research will be on the application of new neurofeedback approaches to modulate brain function and behavior. One major aim of this work is to deepen the understanding of the mechanisms of self-regulation.