Dr. Rachel Spooner

Profile

Academic positionPost Doc
Research fieldsCognitive, Systems and Behavioural Neurobiology,Clinical Neurology; Neurosurgery and Neuroradiology
Keywordsneural oscillations, movement kinematics, magnetoencephalography, motor cortex, deep brain stimulation
Honours and awards

2022: Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (Role: PI)

2022: DFG TRR295-424778381 Early Career Researcher Start-up Funding (Role: PI), Berlin, Germany

2022: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship Seal of Excellence

2022: 22nd International Conference on Biomagnetism (BIOMAG) Early Career Award Finalist, Birmingham, UK

2022: 22nd International Conference on Biomagnetism (BIOMAG) Student Travel Award, Birmingham, UK

2021: Thomas Jefferson Ingenuity Award for Dissertation Excellence, University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC), Omaha, NE, USA

2020: National Institutes of Health (NIH) BRAIN Initiative 6th Annual Investigators Meeting Trainee Travel Award and Highlight Talk

2020: NIGMS P20-GM130447 Cognitive Neuroscience of Aging and Development Mini Grant Recipient (Role: PI), Omaha, NE, USA

2019: NINDS T32-NS105594 Neuroimmunology in Disease Training Program Fellowship (Role: Trainee), Omaha, NE, USA

2019: University of Nebraska Medical Center Graduate Research Fellowship (Role: PI), Omaha, NE, USA

2018: NASA Nebraska Space Grant Fellowship (Role: PI), Omaha, NE, USA

2015: Art Bosch Endowment for Undergraduate Research (Role: PI), Central College, Pella, IA, USA

2015: Emerging Scholars Program Nominated Speaker and Representative, Central College, Pella, IA, USA

2015: Graduated Cum Laude with Senior Honors Distinction, Central College, Pella, IA, USA

2015: Highest Honors for Undergraduate Research Poster, Heartland Global Health Consortium, Des Moines, IA, USA

2013: Highest Honors for Undergraduate Research Poster, Heartland Global Health Consortium, Des Moines, IA, USA

Current contact address

CountryGermany
CityDüsseldorf
InstitutionHeinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf
InstituteInstitut für Klinische Neurowissenschaften und Medizinische Psychologie

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Esther FlorinInstitut für Klinische Neurowissenschaften und Medizinische Psychologie, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf
Start of initial sponsorship01/01/2023

Program(s)

2022Humboldt Research Fellowship Programme for Postdocs

Publications (partial selection)

2023Habets JGV, Spooner RK, Mathiopoulou V, Busch JL, Roediger J, Bahners BH, Schnitzler A, Florin E, Kühn AA: A First Methodological Development and Validation of ReTap: An Open-Source UPDRS Finger Tapping Assessment Tool Based on Accelerometer-Data. In: Sensors, 23, 2023, 5238