We develop open, reproducible tools and datasets to advance computational neuroscience and psychological research. Our projects create and maintain software for distributed data-versioning and provenance, stable neuroimaging platforms, and analysis/data-format libraries, while also curating large, shareable naturalistic neuroimaging and behavioral datasets. We prioritize FAIR principles, provenance capture, and decentralized research-data management.
Our goal is to make complex neuroimaging and behavioral data easier to discover, access, reproduce, and reuse across labs by integrating data, code, and workflows. Through tool development, open data releases, and methodological research, we aim to improve replicability in cognitive and brain sciences and to lower the technical barriers for collaborative, large-scale computational studies.
Objectives #
- Self-hosted research IT infrastructure (Long-term goal)
- Promote open science through shared data and collaboration (Long-term goal)
- Build tools for reproducible, shareable science (Long-term goal)
- Probe brain function with naturalistic, high-dimensional studies (Long-term goal)
- Integrate psychology with informatics (Long-term goal)
People #
Currently associated #
- Laura Waite (Research team member)
- Michael Hanke (Lead)
Full-time informagician, real-life psychologist, Debian developer, Pythonero, open science and free software proponent. - Jenna Swarthout Goddard (Research team member)
- Benjamin Poldrack (Research team member)
- Małgorzata Wierzba (Research team member)
- Michał Szczepanik (Research team member)
- Venkatesh Hariharapura Shivashankar (Research team member)
- Adina Wagner (Research team member)
- Stephan Heunis (Research team member)
- Alex Waite (Information technology project manager)
- Christian Mönch (Research team member)
Previously associated #
- Christian Häusler (Student, Research team member; until 2024-09-30)
- Tosca Heunis (Research team member; 2023-09-01 – 2024-07-31)
- Leonardo Muller-Rodriguez (Intern; 2022-03-01 – 2022-12-31)
- Odelfa Songong (Student; 2021-05-03 – 2022-03-22)
- Michael Burgardt (Intern; 2021-10-04 – 2021-12-20)
- Manuel Bayer (Student; until 2020-05)
- Emanuele Porcu (Research team member; until 2019-03)
- Ayan Sengupta (Research team member; until 2018)
- Falko Kaule (Research team member; 2014-07-01 – 2017-12-31)
- Daniel Kottke (Research assistant; until 2016)
- Michael Notter (Student; until 2016)
- Pierre Ibe (Research assistant; until 2016)
- Moritz Boos (Student; 2015-05-01 – 2015-07-30)
- Vittorio Iacovella (Student; until 2015-06)
- Richard Dinga (Student; until 2015)
- Sven Buchholz (Research team member; 2013-11-01 – 2014-07-31)
