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RankPostdoctoral Research Associate
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Curriculum vitae
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Research groups
Dr. Evangelos Paraskevopoulos completed his bachelor and master studies in the psychology department of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (A.U.Th.). At the same time he studied music theory and received a music diploma in Harmony, Counterpoint and Fugue. He then moved in Muenster, Germany to perform his PhD in cognitive neurosciences and Magnetoencephalography in the Institute for Biomagnetism and Biosignalanalysis with Prof. Dr. Christo Pantev as supervisor. He completed his PhD in 2013 receiving a Summa Cum Laude graduate. In 2011 he was awarded a research fellowship from EU, and the ministry of education and lifelong learning, in Greece (Heraclitus-II) for a research program focusing in the Interaction of the Music Perception System and Language. He has also received an award in the young neuroscientist poster competition “NeuroVisionen 8“ by the NeuroNRW - Ministry of Innovation, Science and Research of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany (2012) and a post-doctoral fellowship (Excellence) from A.U.TH. (2014). His research interests focus on cortical plasticity, music perception (disorders) and multisensory integration. He has 23 published papers in international refereed journals (total impact factor 90.93 ), two book chapters, one in the scientific annals of the Department of Psychology, of A.U.Th. and more than 40 contributions in international conferences with posters and talks. He currently holds a post-doc research associate position in the Laboratory of Medical Physics in (AUTH) as a group leader of the Neurosciences of Cognition and Affection group of the laboratory, he is the Principal INvestigator of the project MusicPlast, funded by the Hellenic Foundation for Research and Innovation (ELIDEK) and a part-time lecturer position at the City College, an International faculty of the University of Sheffield.