Ulrike Horn
Data scientist & researcher
- +49 176 98765250
- ulrike.horn90@gmail.com
- ulrikehorn.github.io
- Leipzig, Germany
With an M.Sc. in Biomathematics and a PhD in Medical Neuroscience, I bring over a decade of experience in data processing, analysis, and scientific research. I value clarity in communication, focused and detail oriented work, and empathetic collaboration. I’m driven by the challenge of turning complex problems into structured, accessible insights that support people and projects in a meaningful way.
Career
Postdoctoral research fellow
Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Neuroscience, Leipzig, Germany
- Independent research group pain perception (PI Dr Falk Eippert)
- Projects about predictive coding, expectation effects, spinal encoding, and modulation of pain perception
- Techniques: (spinal cord) fMRI at 3T and 7T, eye tracking, skin conductance recordings, EEG, ECG, EMG
Doctoral researcher
University Medicine Greifswald, Germany
- Baltic Imaging Center (PI Prof Martin Lotze)
- Thesis title: Imaging in predictive and observational studies of motor function restitution after stroke.
- Federal state scholarship for doctoral studies for 2.5 years
- Techniques: fMRI at 3T, Dynamic causal modelling
Teaching & Supervision
Seminar General Psychology II
Memory and Learning (3 units) for B. Sc. Psychology at University Leipzig
Supervision of master students
Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig
Supervision of medical graduate students
University Medicine Greifswald
Tutorials in mathematics for natural scientists
University Greifswald
Selected publications
- Zhao, H., Horn, U., Freund, M., Bujanow, A., Grundlach, C., Hartwigsen, G., Eippert, F. (2026). Assessing adverse effects and unspecific effects of transcutaneous spinal direct current stimulation (tsDCS). Imaging Neuroscience, 4: IMAG.a.1292.
- Horn, U., Vannesjo, S. J., Gross-Weege, N., Trampel, R., Revina, Y., Kaptan, M., … Others. (2025). Ultra-high-field fMRI reveals layer-specific responses in the human spinal cord. bioRxiv, 2025-2007.
- Pohle, L.-M. G., Nickel, M. M., Nierula, B., Ploner, M., Horn, U., & Eippert, F. (2025). Expectation effects on repetition suppression in nociception. Journal of Neurophysiology, 134(4), 1244-1256.
- Saulin, A., Horn, U., Lotze, M., Kaiser, J., & Hein, G. (2022). The neural computation of human prosocial choices in complex motivational states. NeuroImage, 247, 118827.
- Horn, U., Roschka, S., Eyme, K., Walz, A.-D., Platz, T., & Lotze, M. (2016). Increased ventral premotor cortex recruitment after arm training in an fMRI study with subacute stroke patients. Behavioural Brain Research, 308, 152-159.
- Horn, U., Grothe, M., & Lotze, M. (2016). MRI biomarkers for hand-motor outcome prediction and therapy monitoring following stroke. Neural Plasticity, 2016(1), 9265621.