Andrea KÜBLER

Dr. Andrea Kübler holds a master degree in Biology and Psychology, a PhD in biology and finished her Habilitation in Psychology in 2005 at the Institute of Medical Psychology and Behavioural Neurobiology, University of Tübingen, Germany.  Since the beginning of her PhD in 1996 she has been working in the field of brain-computer interfacing (BCI). Her research efforts focus on providing people with severe motor impairment with a means of communication using different components of the electrical activity of the brain. Through the work with locked-in patients, she became interested in how such patients cope with their disease, that is how they can maintain quality of life and what factors determine the possible development of depression. Her current research efforts in the BCI field are to find out more about the influence of emotion and motivation on BCI performance, and to find reliable psychological and physiological predictors of BCI performance. From 2001-2003 she worked at the Department of Psychology and Institute of Neuroscience, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, as postdoctoral fellow. During this period, she investigated executive function in addiction using functional magnetic resonance imaging. Currently, Dr. Kübler works as Senior Lecturer at the School of Human and Life Sciences, Roehampton University, London, where she is extending her research from substance related addiction to behavioural addiction, such as eating disorders. Dr. Kübler published numerous papers on brain-computer interfacing. She headed the Tübingen part of an NIH funded BRP project, and recently received a grant from the German Research Society to continue BCI research. She is now part of an EU funded collaboration between the leading European brain-computer interfacing groups.