Curriculum Vitae

Contact Data

Leon K. Martin

Falckensteinstraße 10

10997 Berlin

E-Mail: leon.martin@bih-charite.de

Tel.: +49 (0) 1577 1576339

Personal Data

Date of birth: 12.06.1996

Place of birth: Nuremberg, Germany

Languages:

  • German (native)
  • English (fluent/C1-2)

Education

2023 - Graduand Student (Dr. rer. med.) at Charité University Medicine Berlin, Germany

2022 Master thesis: “Mapping statistical search results from biomedical knowledge discovery tools onto common brain parcellations” (Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Petra Ritter, Dr. Konstantin Bülau)

2019 - Study of clinical psychology (M.Sc.)

Freie Universität Berlin
GPA: 1.2

2018 - 2022 Study of neuroscience (M.Sc.) at the Berlin School of Mind and Brain

Humboldt University Berlin, Germany
GPA: 1.0

2018 Bachelor thesis: “The influence of instrumental music on the implicit power motive and activity inhibition” (Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Oliver C. Schultheiss)

2014 - 2018 Study of psychology (B.Sc.)

Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany
GPA: 1.2

2006 - 2014 Graduation: Abitur (A-Levels)

Wolfram-von-Eschenbach Gymnasium in Schwabach, Germany
GPA: 1.0

Work Experience

2021 - Research Fellow, Dept. Neurology, Brain Simulation Section

Berlin Institute of Health (BIH) / Charité University Medicine Berlin

2020 - 2021 Student Research Assistant, Dep. of Neurology, Brain Simulation Section

Charité University Medicine Berlin

2020 Research Assistant, Dep. of Neurology, Group: Music Evoked Brain Plasticity

Max-Planck-Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences

2020 Research Assistant, Chair of German Linguistics (Dialectology)

Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg, Germany

2019 - 2020 Research Internship, Dep. Neurology, Group: Music Evoked Brain Plasticity.

Advisor: Dimitra Kandia, Tom Fritz

Max-Planck-Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany

2019 - 2020 Student Assistant, Excellence Cluster NeuroCure & Einstein Center for Neurosciences Berlin
Charité University Medicine Berlin, Germany

2018 Research Assistant at the Chair of Psychological Diagnostics, Differential and Personal Psychology
Freie Universität Berlin, Germany

2016 - 2018 Research Internship at the Chair of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy

Advisor: Christian Aljoscha Lukas

Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen, Germany

2015 - 2017 Student Research Assistant at the Chair for Experimental Psychology, Motivation and Affective Neuroscience

Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen, Germany

Publications, First Authorships

Marti

Publications, Co-Authorships

Stefanovski, L., Bülau, K., Martin, L., Courtiol, J., Diaz‐Cortes, M. A., Langford, C., ... & Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative. (2021). Spatial mapping of subcellular disease pathways and cytoarchitecture to anatomical brain regions for multi‐scale brain simulation with The Virtual Brain. Alzheimer's & Dementia17, e052311.

Stefanovski, L., Meier, J. M., Pai, R. K., Triebkorn, P., Lett, T., Martin, L., Bülau, K., Hofmann-Apitius, M., Solodkin, A., McIntosh, A. R., & Ritter, P. (2021). Bridging Scales in Alzheimer’s Disease: Biological Framework for Brain Simulation with The Virtual Brain. Frontiers in Neuroinformatics, 15(April), 1–30. https://doi.org/10.3389/fninf.2021.630172

Schultheiss, O. C., Frisch, M., Özbe, D., Ossmann, A., Schultheiss, M., Lentz, S., Martin, L., & Rösch, A. G. (2019). Implicit motives show sex-dimorphic associations with digit ratio. Motivation Science, 5(4), 326–342. https://doi.org/10.1037/mot0000122

Poster Presentations

Martin L., Stefanovski L., Bülau Konstantin, Kodamullil A. T., Jacobs M, Hofmann-Apitius M. (2022). Decoding spatial patterns of amyloid-beta PET using TVBase – a tool for mapping biological knowledge onto a 3D brain atlas. SfN Neuroscience 2022, 11.15., San Diego

Lectures

Sep. 2022 The Virtual Brain in Clinical Research (Summer School 2022) [YouTube]

Talks/Workshops

May 2021 Young Researchers Event 2021 – EBRAINS for next-generation brain medicine [link]

June 2021 McGill Summer School: The Virtual Brain lecture and workshop [link]

June 2021 TVB-EBRAINS Integrated Workflows - 5th Virtual Workshop [link]

March 2021 TVB-EBRAINS Integrated Workflows - 4th Workshop [link]

Jan. 2021 Virtual Course “Personalized Multi-Scale Brain Simulation” [link]

Certifications

  • Certified assistant for trauma therapy with refugee children and adolescents (Festland e.V.)

  • Certified coder for implicit achievement, affiliation, and power motivation [According to Winter, 1994] with extensive coding experience (>3000 PSEs scored)

Social Engagement

2021 Youth work

Zentrum ÜBERLEBEN, Berlin

2020 Trauma therapy for children and adolescents with experiences of displacement

Festland e.V.

2020 - Acute drug emergency aid, psycho-social support, and psychoeducation

Eclipse e.V., Berlin

Berlin, January 26, 2023 Leon Martin