Staff

Priv.-Doz. Dr. Ronald Sladky
MR Physics, neuroimaging, and cognitive science
Contact: ronald.sladky@univie.ac.at

Ronald Sladky is a senior scientist at the Faculty of Psychology and managing the University of Vienna MR Center. His responsibilities encompass:

• MRI study design and planning support
• Scanner hardware and software support
• Real-time fMRI neurofeedback support
• Project management and scheduling
• MRI safety management
• User training

He worked as a software/web developer and studied computer science and cognitive science in Vienna. Supervised by Christian Windischberger, he received a PhD and habilitation in Medical Physics at the Medical University of Vienna for his work on functional MRI methodology and brain connectivity in psychiatric patients. After that, he spent two years as a Postdoc in Frank Scharnowski’s Lab at the Psychiatric Hospital of the University of Zurich and was involved in real-time fMRI studies to investigate the applicability of fMRI-based neurofeedback training.

For many years, Ronald Sladky has been responsible for the planning, study design, execution, data analysis, and management of research projects in a variety of different scientific topics, including social anxiety and other psychiatric disorders, decision making and situational awareness in airline pilots, and creativity research. He has experience working on various high- and ultra-high field MRI scanner types (Siemens MAGNETOM Skyra, Trio, Prismafit, 7T; Philips Achieva; Bruker Biospin Medspec S300).

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Mag. Lukas Lengersdorff

Lukas Lengersdorff is a PhD student at the Faculty of Psychology and co-managing the University of Vienna MR Center. His responsibilities encompass:

• Project management and scheduling
• MRI safety management
• User training

Lukas Lengersdorff’s academic research focusses on empathy, prosocial behavior and aggression, and how these processes are modulated by factors such as in-group/out-group biases and exposure to violence in media. In his function as researcher and lab manager, he has acquired a high level of expertise in fMRI, EEG, and psychophysiological measures.

Univ.-Prof. Claus Lamm

Claus Lamm is a Full Professor of Biological Psychology and head of the Social, Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience Unit at the Faculty of Psychology of the University of Vienna. He is the director of the MR Center and responsible for

• Management and supervision
• Cooperation projects
• Public outreach

Claus Lamm’s scientific interests focus on the neural underpinnings of empathy and prosocial behavior. This includes recent multi-modal investigations combining neuroimaging with psychopharmacology and psychoneuroendocrinology, as well as comparative approaches to test empathy and its precursors in ravens and dogs.

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