I am working on the EU-Project "Extending Sensorimotor Contingencies to Cognition" (www.eSMCs.eu). The goal is to connect findings from Neuroscience with those from robotics. By appliyng models from Neuroscience to robotic platforms we can learn more about those models and validate them. At the same time we create robots that are capable to deal with highly uncertain environments and therefore are more efficient in solving real-life tasks. Further interests include Brain-Computer Interfaces and Computational Neuroscience.

Peer-Reviewed Articles:

• N. M. Schmidt, B. Blankertz, M. S. Treder (2012) "Online detection of error-related potentials boosts the performance of mental typewriters." BMC Neuroscience, 13:19, 2012, doi:10.1186/1471-2202-13-19
   
• M. S. Treder, N. M. Schmidt, B. Blankertz. “Gaze-independent brain-computer interfaces based on covert attention and feature attention.” J Neural Eng, 8:6, 2011 (pdf)

• M. S. Treder, A. Bahramisharif, N. M. Schmidt, M. A. J. van Gerven, B. Blankertz. “Posterior alpha modulation induced by covert attention shifts as an input modality for gaze-independent EEG-based brain-computer interfaces.” J Neuroeng Rehabil, 8:24, 2011 (pdf)

Conference Proceedings:

• N.M. Schmidt, B. Blankertz, M. S. Treder. "Online Detection of Error-Related Potentials Boosts the Communication Speed of Visual Spellers." Proceedings of the 2011 5th International Brain-Computer Interface Conference, Graz
   
• B. Blankertz, N.M. Schmidt, M.S. Treder. "Gaze-independent BCI spellers based on covert attention and feature attention." 2010 3rd International Symposium on Applied Sciences in Biomedical and Communication Technologies (ISABEL)
   
• N. M. Schmidt, B. Blankertz, M. S. Treder. "Alpha-modulation induced by covert attention shifts as a new input modality for EEG-based BCIs". Proceedings of the 2010 IEEE Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics (pdf).

Conference Abstracts:

• N. M. Schmidt, B. Blankertz, M. S. Treder. "Alpha-modulation induced by covert attention shifts as a new input modality for EEG-based BCIs". Poster presented at the Bernstein Conference on Computational Neuroscience 2010 Berlin. (pdf) 

Master's Thesis:

• "Detection of Error-Related Potentials for Increasing the Communication Rate of Brain-Computer Interfaces", supervisors: Prof K.-R. Müller, Prof. G. Curio, Dr. M.S. Treder, Dr. B. Blankertz,  Master's thesis at TU-Berlin, Machine Learning Laboratory (2011) (pdf)

2011:

• Teaching Assistant in Neural Networks (Prof. Pfeifer) 

• Teaching Assistant in Formal Methods for Computer Science II (Prof. Pefeifer, Dr. Fuechslin)