This is Me!

Hey,

my name is René Skukies. Currently, I am a PhD Student in the Computational Cognitive Science group. We are situated at the University of Stuttgart and part of the SimTech Institute. My CV (as of 03.2023) can be found here.

I am interested in, and working on the development and validation of new neuroscientific methods, specifically for signal analysis of M/EEG recordings. The main focus of my PhD is to investigate the uses and further developments of the regression-ERP approach. I am additionally interested in (multimodal) perception, awareness and consciousness.

Lastly, if I'm not doing science I enjoy hiking, climbing, bee keeping and generally being out in nature. To get an idea of how that looks (and partly to make me look more human than just a wall of text) here are some pictures of me in the wild

Contact Me/ Find Me Elsewhere

Mail: science@reneskukies.de

BlueSky: @theneurocookies.bsky.social

GitHub: René Skukies

Education

2020 - Present: Dr. rer. nat./ PhD Computational Cognitive Science; University of Stuttgart - Centre for Simulation Science

2018 - 2020: M.Phil. Cognitive Neuroscience; University of Oslo
Thesis: 'Validation of measures of consciousness using Propofol anaesthesia'

2014 - 2017: B.Sc. Psychology; Innsbruck University
Thesis: 'Leader-Member-Exchange and Right-Wing-Authoritarianism: A political concept in an organisational setting'

Publications

Skukies, R., Schepers, J. & Ehinger, B. (2024). Brain responses vary in duration - modeling strategies and challenges. bioRxiv. https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.12.05.626938

Mikheev, V., Skukies, R., & Ehinger, B. V. (2024). The Art of Brainwaves: A Survey on Event-Related Potential Visualization Practices. Aperture Neuro, 4. https://doi.org/10.52294/001c.116386

Skukies, R., & Ehinger, B. V. (2023). The effect of estimation time window length on overlap correction in EEG data (p. 2023.06.05.543689). bioRxiv. https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.06.05.543689

Skukies, R., & Ehinger, B. (2021). Modelling event duration and overlap during EEG analysis. Journal of Vision, 21(9), 2037. https://doi.org/10.1167/jov.21.9.2037

Skukies, R. S. (2020). Validation of Measures of Consciousness using Propofol Anesthesia [Master thesis]. https://www.duo.uio.no/handle/10852/79300