Agata Patyczek

LIFE Fellow since 2023, MPI for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig

I am a PhD fellow at the Mind-Body-Emotion research group, located at both the Max Planck Dahlem Campus of Cognition in Berlin and the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Leipzig. My work is supervised by Arno Villringer and Michael Gaebler. My research interests include the study of neuromodulatory systems in the context of mind-brain-body interaction. I completed a degree in Neuroscience at the University of Glasgow followed by a MSc in Cognitive Science at the University of Vienna. In my master’s thesis, I focused on the effects of acute stress on functional network interactions using resting-state fMRI data and connectome gradient analysis. My PhD research will concentrate on the interplay between the noradrenergic system, arousal, and aging.

Dissertation project:

Influence of brainstem neuromodulatory systems on blood pressure variability across the lifespan