Jürgen Dukart
Lead of the Biomarker Development group at the Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine: Brain and Behavior (INM-7), Research Centre Jülich.
Research Centre Jülich (FZJ)
Forschungszentrum Jülich (FZJ) is a German national research institution that pursues interdisciplinary research in the fields of energy, information, and bioeconomy. It operates a broad range of research infrastructures like supercomputers, an atmospheric simulation chamber, electron microscopes, a particle accelerator, cleanrooms for nanotechnology, among other things. As a member of the Helmholtz Association with roughly 6,800 employees in ten institutes and 80 subinstitutes, Jülich is one of the largest research institutions in Europe.
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Simon Eickhoff
Director of the Institute for Neuroscience and Medicine: Brain and Behaviour (INM-7).
Anna Geiger
Scientific coordinator of the Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine (INM-7).
Ute Habel
Ute Habel is the senior psychologist at the Clinic for Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, Vice Rector of RWTH Aachen University for International Affairs, and head of the JARA Institute Brain structure-function relationships (INM-10) at the research centre Jülich.
Michael Hanke
Professor at the Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, and head of the Psychoinformatics group in the Institute for Neuroscience and Medicine (INM-7) at the Forschungszentrum Jülich.
Bert Heinrichs
Professor of ethics and applied ethics at the Institute for Science and Ethics (IWE) at the University of Bonn and head of the “Neuroethics and Ethics of AI” research group at Forschungszentrum Jülich.
Kerstin Konrad
Professor for clinical neuropsychology at RWTH Aachen and vice executive director of the JARA Institute Molecular neuroscience and neuroimaging (INM-11) at the research centre Jülich.
Martina Minnerop
Working Group Leader “Clinical Neuroanatomy” and Consultant Neurologist at University Hospital Düsseldorf, Center of Movement Disorders and Neuromodulation
Federico Raimondo
Team leader at the Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine (INM-7) and research software engineer for various software projects, among them julearn.
Charles Rathkopf
Dr. Charles Rathkopf is a Research Associate at Forschungszentrum Jülich, working at the intersection of AI, neuroscience, and philosophy.
Jenna Swarthout Goddard
Dr. Jenna Swarthout Goddard obtained her PhD at Tufts University in Environmental Health, and has extensive experience as a community manager for various projects.
Adina Wagner
Research Software Engineer in the DataLad project, and involved in outreach und coordination activities.
Peter Weiss-Blankenhorn
Head of the Cognitive Neurology Group and deputy director of the Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine (INM-3), Research Centre Jülich.
Community management and networking
Technical solutions are one, and people are the other central element for the success of our cooperative project.
DataLad: Data Management Multitool
DataLad is a free and open source software for data version control and provenance tracking.
Ethics in research and clinical translation
Ethical, legal, and societal considerations are embedded within ABCD-J’s research, technology, and translation to clinical practice.
JTrack: EMA Assessments and More
Jtrack is a software platform for collecting digital phenotyping data via smartphones from study participants.
julearn: Machine learning for everyone
julearn is a user-oriented machine-learning library.
Translating research into clinical practice
Kathrin Reetz
Ute Habel
Kerstin Konrad
Alexandra Philipsen
Joseph Kambeitz
Peter Weiss-Blankenhorn
Sven Meuth
Charlotte von Gall
Eva Meisenzahl-Lechner
Simon Eickhoff
Leonhard Schilbach
Research Centre Jülich (FZJ)
RWTH Aachen
Uniklinik Bonn
Uniklinik Köln
Uniklinik Düsseldorf
Translating research into clinical practice
The leap from research to clinical practice is often not easy.
Dump Things Service: Backend Metadata Storage and API
Dump Things Service is an open-source API implementation that enables storage and retrieval of structured (meta)data.
shacl-vue: Browser-Based Metadata Management Tool
shacl-vue is an open-source, browser-based web UI that enables user-friendly (meta)data entry and retrieval.
Case study - Metadata pooling for the TRR379 research consortium
Within the ABCD-J context, we have developed a (meta)data management approach that enables collaborative, model-driven collection and reuse of research information across distributed sites and projects.
Software article - JTrack-EMA+ development and usability
Introducing JTrack-EMA+, a GDPR- and FAIR-compliant cross-platform solution for remote, real-time ecological momentary assessments in clinical and behavioral research.
Study highlight - Age- and sex-related changes in motor functions
This study provides an example of data analysis enabled by using DataLad to create a database of motor parameters in healthy individuals and patients with neurological and psychiatric disorders.
Study highlight - Sensor-based gait and balance assessment
In a study involving healthy individuals with a wide age range and varying BMI, it was demonstrated that smartphone placement (abdomen versus the lower back) had no significant effect on the recorded gait parameters.