The Brain Machine Interfacing Initiative
at the Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg

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Stephan Waldert (Diploma)

Address: Institute for Biology I
Albert-Ludwigs-University
Hauptstr. 1
D-79104 Freiburg i.Br.
Germany
Phone: +49 (0)761 203-2542
Fax: +49 (0)761 203-2921
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Curriculum Vitae

Academic Background
since 2007 PhD student (scholarship Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes)
2006 PhD student (supported by the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities)
2005 Diploma in Bioinformatics (with distinction)
1999 - 2005 Study of Bioinformatics (Neurobiology, Theoretical Informatics) Eberhard-Karls-University Tübingen

Publications

Peer reviewed articles
  • Braun D, Waldert S, Aertsen A, Wolpert D, Mehring C (2010), Structure learning in a sensorimotor association task, PLoS One (in press)
  • Waldert S and Pistohl T, Braun C, Ball T, Aertsen A, Mehring C (2009), A Review on Directional Information in Neural Signals for Brain-Machine Interfaces, Journal of Physiology Paris (accepted)
  • Waldert S, Preissl H, Demandt E, Braun C, Birbaumer N, Aertsen A, Mehring C (2008), Hand movement direction decoded from MEG and EEG. Journal of Neuroscience 28(4):1000-1008 (PDF). Also available at: The Journal of Neuroscience, copyright: The Society for Neuroscience.
  • Waldert S, Bensch M, Bogdan M, Rosenstiel W, Schölkopf B, Lowery CL, Eswaran H, Preissl H (2007) Real-Time Fetal Heart Monitoring in Biomagnetic Measurements Using Adaptive Real-Time ICA, IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering 54(10):1867-1874.

Conference papers
  • Blumberg J, Rickert J, Waldert S, Schulze-Bonhage A, Aertsen A, Mehring C (2007) Adaptive Classification for Brain Computer Interfaces. Conf Proc IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc. 2007;1:2536-9.
  • Waldert S, Braun C, Preissl H, Birbaumer N, Aertsen A, Mehring C (2007) Decoding Performance for Hand Movements: EEG vs. MEG. Conf Proc IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc. 2007;1:5346-5348. (PDF)
  • Waldert S, Gutiérrez D, Nehorai A, McKenzie D, Lowery CL, Murphy P, Eswaran H, Preissl H (2005) Real-time access of magnetoencephalographic/cardiographic data: technical realization and Application to Online Fetal Heart Rate Recording. Conf Proc IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc. 2005;1:5987-5990.

Abstracts
  • Waldert S, Kobak D, Aertsen A, Mehring C (2009), Extrapolation of a motor skill after structural motor learning, 19th NCM Conference on Neural Control of Movement, Hawaii
  • Kobak D, Waldert S, Aertsen A, Mehring C (2009), Learning visuomotor rotations in three dimensions, 19th NCM Conference on Neural Control of Movement, Hawaii
  • Rickert J, Ball T, Stieglitz T, Henle C, Fischer J, Galan F, Hammer J, Liao X, Meier W, Milekovic T, Pistohl T, Raab M, Waldert S, Schulze-Bonhage A, Aertsen A, Mehring C (2009), Towards an electrocorticogram based brain-computer interface using the neural correlates of natural hand movements: research and development at the Bernstein center in Freiburg. BBCI Workshop 2009, Berlin
  • Waldert S, Braun C, Preissl H, Birbaumer N, Aertsen A, Cardoso de Oliveira S, Mehring C (2007) Applicability of hand movement decoding in MEG-based Brain-Machine-Interfaces; 37th Neuroscience, San Diego, USA
  • Waldert S, Preissl H, Birbaumer N, Aertsen A, Mehring C (2007), Decoding of Hand Movement Directions from Human MEG-Signals. Neurex BCCN Meeting 2007, 163-164.
  • Waldert S, Birbaumer N, Aertsen A, Preissl H, Mehring C (2006) Encoding of Movement Direction in Motor Cortical MEG-Signals, 15th International BIOMAG Conference on Biomagnetism, Vancouver, Canada