Oldenburg's researchers revolutionize brain research with personality!

Oldenburg's researchers revolutionize brain research with personality!

Oldenburg, Deutschland - On April 18, 2025, Dr. Daniel Kristanto with the Carl by Ossietzky Young Researchers' Fellowship . This is done as part of his “Individual Brain Project” project at the University of Oldenburg, with the aim of better understanding the individual brain functions and developing new methods in brain research. Kristanto, 31 years old, has a background to the physics engineering and has already published significant work, including a bachelor thesis on industrial measurement technology at the Universitas Gadjah Mada in Indonesia and a master thesis at Thammasat University in Thailand on the control of climate systems in cars.

his doctoral thesis, which he completed at the Hong Kong Baptist University, dealt with neuronal information processing. Kristanto came to Germany for a joint fellowship in 2022 and has been working at the Department of Psychology since then, where he currently lives in Oldenburg with his wife and daughter. He criticizes the previous quantitative approach in brain research, which too often provides group results about individual differences, and plans the development of individual brain models based on MRI recordings.

innovative approaches in brain research

Kristanto's central concern is the creation of a publicly accessible knowledge storage for research results and methods. A combination of different brain scans for more comprehensive analysis of individual functions is also planned. Similar to a streaming service that offers personalized recommendations, he would like to combine demographic data with individual brain functions. His main intention is to put methods in a modular tool case to assist other researchers.

critically, Kristanto sees the need to make his application to the German Research Foundation for the Emmy Noether program promptly in order to address the challenges in brain research. He hopes that his work will ultimately lead to personalized diagnoses and therapies based on brain scans.

progress in stroke diagnostics

In addition to developments in brain research, there is significant progress in stroke diagnostics. At the Benjamin Franklin campus of the Charité in Berlin is the Stroke-mrt of the CSB , which is in the immediate vicinity of the Stroke Unit. This choice of location enables faster care for stroke patients, since the examination and treatment can be carried out quickly.

The MRI provides important data for clinical studies and plays a crucial role in the exact measurement of brain blood flow during stroke symptoms. An additional element is the stemo, a mobile ambulance that is equipped with a CT and a mini laboratory. It accelerates emergency treatment by initiating thrombolysal therapy by up to 25 minutes faster.

patients treated in the stemo benefit from this innovative technology, which is also continuously optimized in the long term in Berlin's stroke alliance. The Alliance works on new concepts for long -term care and offers extensive training opportunities for doctors: inside, therapists and nursing staff.

new possibilities through innovative technologies

also revolutionary is the work at the Institute for Neuroradiology of the University Medical Center Frankfurt under the direction of Prof. Elke Hattingen . Your approach focuses on the early detection of brain tumors and neurodegenerative diseases with the help of modern imaging processes. Your goal is to improve diagnostics with the help of artificial intelligence and enable individualized therapies.

The diagnostics developed by the institute have already led to many stroke patients through innovative treatment methods, for example through catheter techniques without skull surgery. Interdisciplinary cooperation and continuous after -care for patients with neurological diseases are central elements of work at the institute.