Jürgen Kayser, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Clinical Neuroscience
Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University College of Phsyicians & Surgeons
Research Scientist V
Division of Cognitive Neuroscience, Unit 50, New York State Psychiatric Institute
1051 Riverside Drive, New York, NY 10032, USA
Tel: 1-212-543-5169; Fax: 1-212-543-6540;
Email: rjk23@columbia.edu

Psychophysiology Laboratory

 


10/24/08  

Education and Training
Technical University of Berlin, Germany Cand.Psych. 1982 Psychology
Technical University of Berlin, Germany Dipl.Psych. 1988 Psychology
Technical University of Berlin, Germany Ph.D. (summa cum laude) 1995 Neuropsychology,
Psychophysiology
New York State Psychiatric Institute, USA post-doctorate 1995-1998 Electrophysiology

Technical University of Berlin, Germany

1984 Internship, Max-Planck-Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, Netherlands
1984-1988 Teaching Assistant (Tutor), Department of Physiological Psychology, Institute of Psychology (Prof. G. Erdmann)
1985-1986 Internship, Neuromagnetic Laboratory of FU and TU Berlin, Germany
1988-1993 Adjunct Lecturer / Assistant to Professor / Research Associate (Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter), Department of Physiological Psychology, Institute of Psychology (Prof. G. Erdmann)
1993-1994 Scholarship of the G.A. Lienert Foundation for the promotion of up-and-coming academics in Biopsychological Methods, Department of Biological and Medical Psychology, University of Bergen, Norway (Prof. K. Hugdahl)
1994 Visits to VA Medical Center, Palo Alto (Profs. W.T. Roth, J.M. Ford); University of Oregon, Eugene (Prof. D.M. Tucker), UCLA, L.A. (Prof. E. Zaidel), University of Wisconsin, Madison (Prof. R.J. Davidson)
 
New York State Psychiatric Institute (NYSPI), USA
1995 Departmental Schizophrenia Research Fund Award, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons
since 1995 Co-Investigator National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) R01 grants MH50715 Brain ERPs and Cognitive Demand in Schizophrenia (‘95-‘03), MH36295 Behavioral, ERP and EEG Asymmetry in Affective Disorders (‘97-‘13), RR11460 Multi-User Geodesic Sensor Net EEG/ERP System (‘98-‘00), MH066596 Subtypes of Schizophrenia: ERPs During Memory Processing (‘03-‘08)
1998-2001 Principal Investigator NIMH RO3 grant MH58346 Emotion and Mood Disorders: ERP/EEG and Autonomic Asymmetries
2008-2010 Principal Investigator NIMH R21 grant MH082393 Olfaction and Emotion in Depression: Behavioral Electrodermal and ERP Measures
1995-2008 Associate Professor of Clinical Neuroscience (since ‘06), Assistant Professor of Clinical Neuroscience (‘04-‘06), Associate Research Scientist (‘98-‘04), Postdoctoral Research Scientist (‘95-‘98), Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons
1995-2008 Research Scientist V (since ‘07), Research Scientist IV (‘01-‘07), Research Scientist III (‘99-‘01), Research Scientist II (‘96-‘99), Research Scientist I (‘95-‘96), Department of Biopsychology / Division of Cognitive Neuroscience, NYSPI
 
Teaching Experience
1984-1988 Teaching Assistant (Tutor), Department of Physiological Psychology, Institute of Psychology, TU Berlin
1988-1993 Adjunct Lecturer (Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter), Department of Physiological Psychology, Institute of Psychology, TU Berlin
since 1995 Mentor / Advisor to graduate and undergraduate students and visiting scholars at NYSPI
 
Programming Experience
since 1984 Multiple software developments for scientific purpose (e.g., experiment control, data processing and analysis, statistical tests, literature management) in several languages/compilers (Delphi, Turbo Pascal, Code-Warrior, Basic, Clipper, NeuroScan STIM, MEL, Presentations, SPSS Matrix, MatLab) and environments (Windows Vista/XP/2000/ME/98/95/3.1, MS-DOS, Macintosh, Unix, HP1000)
1991-1996 Development of Event Detection and Analysis for Physiological Signals (with Dipl.-Psych. H.-J. Trosiener, TU Berlin), a software package for interactive analysis of EDA, ECG, EMG, EOG and EEG measures (Turbo Pascal)
2003 Polygraphic Recording Data Exchange - PolyRex, a data conversion software for BioSemi 24-bit *.bdf to NeuroScan 16-bit *.cnt format (Delphi Pascal)
2003 erpPCA (generic MatLab code for unrestricted principal components analysis of event-related potentials)
2005 CSD (generic MatLab code implementation for current source density estimates of surface potentials based on spherical splines as suggested by Perrin et al., 1989)
 
Other Professional Activities
since 1990 Member of German Psychophysiology Society (DGPA) (since ‘90), Society for Psychophysiological Research (SPR) (since ‘93), International Organization of Psychophysiology (IOP) (since ‘99), Society for Neuroscience (SfN) (since ‘07)
since 1991 Research Consultant
since 1993 Consulting Editor / Ad-hoc Reviewer for scientific research journals (Archives of General Psychiatry; Biological Psychology; Biological Psychiatry; Brain; Clinical EEG and Neuroscience; Clinical Neurophysiology; Cognition and Emotion; Cognitive Brain Research; Emotion; Experimental Psychology; International Journal of Psychology; International Journal of Psychophysiology; Journal of Neuroscience Methods; Medical & Biological Engineering & Computing; Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS); Psychiatry Research; Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging; Psychological Medicine; Psychophysiology; Schizophrenia Research) and academic funding agencies (FWF, NIH, NSF)