BIRTH DATE:	May 4, 1979
BIRTH PLACE:	Satu Mare, Romania
CITIZENSHIP:	German & Romanian
LANGUAGES:	Romanian, Hungarian, German, English

Education

1993-1998	Pedagogical High School, Romania
1998-2004	"Babes-Bolyai" University, Faculty of Psychology, Cluj Napoca, Romania
2005-2009	Ph.D, at the Institute of Medical Psychology and Behavioral Neurobiology and within the Research Training Group "Bioethics"  at the International Centre for Ethics in the Sciences and Humanities (IZEW), University of Tübingen

Scientific work experience

2009-present	Equivalent of Assistant Professor Institute of Medical Psychology and Behavioral Neurobiology
2008-2009	Post Doctoral Fellow SARA Lab of the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, USA
2004-2006	Graduate Assistant Within the Research Project "BCI 2000" Institute of Medical Psychology and Behavioral Neurobiology
2002-2003	Child Psychologist Romania

PhD scholarship funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) within the Postgraduate Programme Bioethics at the Interdepartmental Centre for Ethics in the Sciences and Humanities (IZEW), Tübingen (link: www.uni-tuebingen.de/einrichtungen/internationales-zentrum-fuer-ethik-in-den-wissenschaften/graduiertenkolleg-bioethik.html)

 

 

• Fetal and neonatal brain development and its neurophysiological correlates (fetal MEG, neonatal EEG)

• Childhood obesity and early cognitive development: the influence of nutritional environment before and after birth

• Ethical aspect related to the use of fetal and neonatal magnetoencephalography for neurocognitive assessment

 

Previous topics

• Ethical aspects related to the so called ?end-of-life decision?
• Assessment of Quality of Life, Depression, Coping strategies and other factors related to the psychosocial adjustment to neurological diseases leading to motor paralysis (such as Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, Spinal Cord Injury or Multiple Sclerosis
• Neurofeedback based BCI (with auditory and visual feedback) as well as P300 based BCI (auditory and visual) for communication and environment control in severely paralyzed

 

Psychology for medical students.

 

Peer reviewed research articles

Matuz T, Govindan RB, Preissl H, Siegel E, Muenssinger J, Murphy P, Ware M, Lowery C, Eswaran H. Habituation of evoked responses in neonates and fetuses: a MEG study. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience (accepted)

Matuz T, Birbaumer N, Hautzinger M, Kübler A (2010). Coping with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: an integrative view. Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry, 81(8):893-8

Furdea A, Ruf CA, Halder S, De Massari D, Bogdan M, Rosenstiel W, Matuz T, Birbaumer N (2012). A new (semantic) reflexive brain-computer interface: in search for a suitable classifier. J Neurosci Methods. 203 (1):233-40

Sheridan C, Matuz T, Draganova R, Eswaran H, Preissl H (2010). Fetal magnetoencephalography - achievements and challenges in the study of prenatal and early postnatal brain responses: a review. Infant and child development, 19 (1):80-94

Escolano C, Ramos Murguialday A, Matuz T, Birbaumer N, Minguez J (2010). A telepresence robotic system operated with a P300-based brain-computer interface: initial tests with ALS patients. Conf Proc IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc., 4476-80.

Kurt A, Nijboer F, Matuz T, Kübler A (2007). Depression and Anxiety in Individuals with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis: Epidemiology and Management. CNS Drugs, 21 (4): 279-291

Nijboer F, Sellers E, Mellinger J, Matuz T, Mochty U, Jordan M, Krusienski D, Vaughan TM, Wolpaw JR, & Kübler A (2008). A P300 based brain-computer interface (BCI) for people with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). Clinical Psychophysiology, 119:1909-16

 

Work under review

Muenssinger J, Matuz T, Schleger F, Kiefer-Schmidt I, Wacker-Gußmann A, Birbaumer N, Preissl H.  Auditory habituation and dishabituation in fetuses and neonates: an fMEG-study.

Ruf CA, Matuz T, Furdea A, Halder S, De Massari D, van der Heiden L, Kotchoubey B, Birbaumer N. Semantic classical conditioning and BCI control: Encoding of affirmative and negative thinking.

De Massari D, Matuz T,  Furdea A, Ruf C, Halder S, Birbaumer N. A Brain-Computer Interface for semantic classical conditioning of brain activity.

Halder S, Ruf C, Furdea A, Pasqualotto E, De Massari D, van der Heiden L, Bogdan M, Rosenstiel W, Birbaumer N, Kübler A, Matuz T. Prediction of P300 BCI aptitude of people severe motor impairments.

 

Work in preparation

Matuz T, Dockery CA, Ruf C, Brodbeck D, Kaps, HP, Birbaumer N, Hautzinger M, Kübler A. Psychosocial adjustment to neurological diseases leading to motor paralysis: association with salivary level of cortisol

Matuz T, Kotchoubey B, Birbaumer N, Kübler A. To live or not to live (with ALS)? - A patient?s perspective.

Pasqualotto E, Matuz T, Ruf CA, Bartl M, Federici S, Olivetti Belardinelli M, Birbaumer N, Halder S. Assistive technology for the locked-in: a comparison of a BCI and an eye tracker system.

 

Published abstracts

Matuz, T, Birbaumer, N, & Kuebler, A (2006). Psychosocial adjustment to neurological diseases leading to motor paralysis: Association with salivary level of cortisol. Psychophysiology 43: S64-S64 Suppl. 1

Matuz, T., Birbaumer, N., & Kübler, A. (2005). Salivary level of cortisol as an indicator of psychosocial adjustment to neurological diseases leading to motor paralysis. Psychophysiology, 42 Suppl 1, 86.

 

Book chapters

Hinterberger, T, Nijboer, F, Kübler, A, Matuz, T, Furdea, A, Mochty, U, Jordan; M, Lal, T M, Hill, J, Mellinger, J, Schröder, M, Bensch, M, Widmann, G, & Birbaumer, N. (2007). Brain Computer Interfaces for Communication in Paralysis: A clinical-experimental approach. In G. Dornhege & J. d. R. Millan & T. Hinterberger & D. McFarland & K.-R. Müller (Eds.), Towards Brain-Computer Interfacing. Cambridge, MA: MIT press.

Matuz T. (2011). Betreuungsstrategien für schwerstgelähmten Patienten: empirische Ethik und neurowissenschaftliche Ansätze. In L. Kovacs und C. Brand (Hg.), Forschungspraxis Bioethik. Verlag Karl Alber

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