Björn Schelter
The winner of the best poster presentation at EMBEC'02 (YIC).
Topic: Methods for Describing Interactions Between Cortical Networks.
My name is Björn Schelter and I live in Freiburg, Southern Germany. I began studying physics in 1997 and I am currently
writing my diploma thesis at the Department of Physics and the Freiburg Center for Data Analysis and Modeling (FDM) at the
University of Freiburg. The FDM is one of four interdisciplinary centers of the University of Freiburg with cooperation
from clinical and biological departments.
I work in the field of time series analysis with special emphasis on physiological data. Thus, I am concerned with various
methods for analysing these data sets, especially spectral analysis methods for time series and, more recently, point
processes. Furthermore, investigation of new methods for both time series and point processes, and their specificity
for the analysis of real world data, is a core component of my work. Additionally, the implementation and application of
these techniques to real world data is explored.
The project I am currently involved with (in collaboration with the Center of Neuroscience, University Hospital in Freiburg)
deals with human trembling. This disease (which has several manifestations) is also known as tremor. We try to understand
mechanisms involved in tremor generation and try to classify different manifestations of tremor e.g. in Parkinson's
disease, by analysis techniques so that we may help physicians in their diagnosis. It was on the subject of tremor, that
I gave a poster presentation at the EMBEC conference in Vienna in 2002. More precisely, this presentation dealt with my
recent work on multivariate system, especially graphical models for analysis of electroencephalographic and
electromyographic recordings.
At present, I am focussing on the analysis of point process data recorded in animal experiments from different deep brain
structures. The relationship of these areas and human trembling is investigated to confirm or reject whether these
structures are involved in the occurrence of tremor.
Björn Schelter
Freiburger Zentrum fur Datenanalyse und und Modellbildung, Freiburg, Germany
schelter@fdm.uni-freiburg.de
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