Since 2022: Postdoctoral Researcher
Department of Neuropsychology, Ruhr University Bochum

2016-2022: Doctorate
Department of Neuropsychology, Ruhr University Bochum
PhD Thesis: Understanding Neural Representations Through Deep Neural Networks

2014-2016: M. Sc. in Psychology
Ruhr University Bochum
Thesis: Building a general visual decoder using encoding-decoding models in fMRI

2011-2014: B. Sc. in Psychology
University Bonn
Thesis: Individual differences in empathy and vicarious embarrassment correlate with grey and white matter differences

• Kobelt M, Waldhauser GT, Rupietta A, Heinen R, Rau EMB, Kessler H, Axmacher N (2024) The memory trace of an intrusive trauma-analog episode. Curr Biol 34(8):1657-1669.e5. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2024.03.005
   
• Heinen R*, Bierbrauer A*, Wolf OT, Axmacher N (2024) Representational formats of human memory traces. Brain Struct Funct 229(3):513-529. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00429-023-02636-9
   
• Hucke CI, Heinen RM, Wascher E, van Thriel C (2023) Trigeminal stimulation is required for neural representations of bimodal odor localization: A time-resolved multivariate EEG and fNIRS study. Neuroimage 269:119903. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2023.119903
   
• Lukaschewski TM, Waldhauser GT, Dings R, Heinen R, Gomes CA, Newen A, Axmacher N (2023) Visual perspective in autobiographical memories of self-incongruent episodes. Memory 31(10):1306-1319. https://doi.org/10.1080/09658211.2023.2260571
   
• Jeunehomme O, Heinen R, Stawarczyk D, Axmacher N, D'Argembeau A (2022) Jeunehomme O, Heinen R, Stawarczyk D, Axmacher N, D'Argembeau A. iScience 25(11):105391. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2022.105391
   
• Bierbrauer A, Fellner MC, Heinen R, Wolf OT, Axmacher N (2021) The memory trace of a stressful episode. Curr Biol 31(23):5204-5213.e8. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2021.09.044
   
• Hucke CI*, Heinen RM*, Pacharra M, Wascher E, van Thriel C (2021) Spatiotemporal Processing of Bimodal Odor Lateralization in the Brain Using Electroencephalography Microstates and Source Localization. Front Neurosci 14:620723. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2020.620723
   
• Liu J, Zhang H, Yu T, Ni D, Ren L, Yang Q, Lu B, Wang D, Heinen R, Axmacher N, Xue G (2020) Stable maintenance of multiple representational formats in human visual short-term memory. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 117(51):32329-32339. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2006752117
   
• Schenk S, Bellebaum C, Lech RK, Heinen R, Suchan B (2020) Play to Win: Action Video Game Experience and Attention Driven Perceptual Exploration in Categorization Learning. Front Psychol 11:933. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.00933
    
• Melchers M, Markett S, Montag C, Trautner P, Weber B, Lachmann B, Buss P, Heinen R, Reuter M (2015) Reality TV and vicarious embarrassment: an fMRI study. Neuroimage 109:109-17. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2015.01.022

Poster Presentations

• 2019: Cocnitive Computational Modeling, Berlin
  Using deep neural network features to predict voxelwise activity in ultra-high field fMRI.
• 2016: International Conference on Memory, Budapest, Hungary
  Vulnerability of fMRI-based lie detection to covert counter measures.

Talks

• 2018: Blue Square, Ruhr University Bochum
  Title: We are the robots - A.I. in movies

Organisztion

• 2020: Joint Berlin Bochum PhD Symposium, online
  Organization of career/coaching workshops, talks and mind-matching

• Seminar Developmental Psychology: Sleep, Development, Wellbeing (DE)
  Winter term 2025/2026; B. Sc. Psychology
• Podcast Seminar Psychopharmacology (DE)
  Winter term 2024/2025; B. Sc. Psychology, M. Sc. Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience
• Seminar Psychopharmacology (DE)
  Winter term 2023/2024 and winter term 2022/2023; M. Sc. Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience
• Seminar and Practical Course Applied Neuropsychological Methods - fMRT (DE)
  Winter term 2021/2022; M. Sc. Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience