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Education & Acadamic Positions

Fudan University (China) Postdoctoral research associate 2021 – now
Department: Institute of Science and Technology for Brain-inspired Intelligence (ISTBI)
PI: Deniz Vatansever
University of Cambridge (UK), PhD in Biological Sciences at MRC CBU 2017 – 2021
Department: MRC Cognition and Brian Sciences Unit (MRC CBU)
PI: Rik Henson
College: Clare Hall
Ruhr-University Bochum (GER), M.Sc. Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience 2015 – 2017
University of Nebraska – Omaha (US), Term abroad in Psychology 2014
Ruhr-University Bochum (GER), B.Sc. Psychology 2012 – 2015

Grants, Fellowships, Scholarships & Honors

Research Fund For International Young Scientists (RFIS-I) 2023 – 2024
National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), China
Amount: 400,000 RMB ($56,000/57,000€) for two years

Postdoctoral international exchange program (博士后国际交流计划) 2021
China Postdoctoral Management Committee (中国博士后管理委员会), China

Grindley Grant to travel to Beijing (China) 2019
Experimental Psychology Society (cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic)

Gates Cambridge Scholarship since 2017
Melinda and Bill Gates Foundation, USA

Full student scholarship 2014 – 2017
Hans-Böckler Foundation, Germany

Scholarship for a term abroad 2014
Mid-American Universities International (MAUI), USA

University of Nebraska – Omaha’s Chancellor’s list 2014

Software

Quent, J. A. (2022). Questionnaire Presenter – A standalone program to collect questionnaire data made with Unity3D (Version 1.0.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7180407. GitHub repository

Quent, J. A. (2021). Mental rotation task for MATLAB (Version 1.11) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5502450. GitHub repository

Quent, J. A. (2021). N-back task for MATLAB (Version 1.8) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5502474. GitHub repository

Talks

Where PIMMS fails: limitations with our framework for memory
26th January 2022
Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar
University of Cambridge
MRC Cognition and Brian Sciences Unit

Neuroimaging of mental navigation using virtual reality environments
15th December 2021
Post-doc introdcution talk
Fudan University
ISTBI

Neuroimaging of mental navigation using virtual reality environments 15th December 2021
Post-doc introdcution talk
Fudan University
ISTBI

Power Between the People: Bayesian Sequential Designs
30th November 2020
Methods day
University of Cambridge
MRC Cognition and Brian Sciences Unit
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mF-MPO__jWo

Plan to produce strong evidence: Bayesian Sequential Designs
8th September 2020
Open Research Working Group (ORWG) virtual meeting hosted by British Neuroscience Association
Link:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGaxLQ_o8D4

Bayesian Sequential Designs
29th July 2020
Open Science Day
University of Cambridge
MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit
Link: JAQuent/bayesianSequentialDesign

Bayesian multilevel models
11th November 2019
Imaging Interest Group
University of Cambridge
MRC Cognition and Brian Sciences Unit
Link: https://osf.io/f56bw/ and github.com/JAQuent/bayesianMLM

Using immersive virtual reality to examine the U-shaped relationship between schema and memory performance 
15th May 2019
Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar
University of Cambridge
MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit

Using immersive reality to examine the U-shaped relationship between schema and memory performance
4th April 2019
Cambridge Memory Meeting
University of Cambridge

U-shaped relationship between object-location expectancy and memory performance in an immersive reality environment
3rd Jan 2019
Annual meeting of the Experimental Psychology Society
London

Open notebooks in cognitive neuroscience
20th Nov 2018
Open Science Day
University of Cambridge
MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit

Using RMarkdown to create scientific manuscripts
5th Dec 2017
Methods day
University of Cambridge
MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit

Interaction between reward anticipation and stress hormone during memory formation
1st Nov 2017
Gates Cambridge internal symposium

Reward anticipation modulates the effect of cortisol on memory
1st Jan 2017
Research colloquium “Cognitive Psychology and Psychoneuroendocrinology”
Ruhr-University Bochum
Faculty of Psychology

Posters

Quent, J. A., Henson, R. N. (April 4, 2019). Using hydrocortisone to modulate the U-shape between expectancy and memory. BNA 2019 Festival of Neuroscience, Dublin (Ireland).

Quent, J. A., Meyer, M. Ros, T.,Kuchinke, L. (May 31, 2018). Reading prevails: automatic word recognition in a single-letter Stroop task. Psychologie und Gehirn 2018, Gießen (Germany).

Meyer, M., Manrique Aristizabal, J. A., Quent, J. A., Crawford, B., & Vuilleumier, P. (May 11, 2018). Regulating With The Mind’s Eye: The Link Between Mental Imagery And Emotion Regulation. 36. Symposium der Fachgruppe Klinische Psychologie und Psychotherapie der DGPs, Landau (Germany).

Quent, J. A., McCullough, A. M., Sazma M., Wolf O. T., Yonelinas A. P. (March 12, 2018). Tag-and-capture theory in light of reward anticipation and post-encoding stress. Cambridge Neuroscience Seminar 2018, Cambridge (United Kingdom).

Theses

Reward anticipation modulates the effect of cortisol on memory
M.Sc. 2017
Supervisors: Oliver T. Wolf & Uta Wiemers
Grade: 1.0

Reading prevails: the electrophysiological signature of semantic access in a Stroop task,
B.Sc. 2015
Supervisors: Lars Kuchinke & Marcel Meyer
Grade: 1.0

Research Experience & Employment

Visting scholar, UC Davis 2016
Department of Psychology
Human Memory Lab
Supervisor: Andrew Yonelinas

Research assistant, Ruhr-University Bochum 2016
Supervisors: Lars Kuchinke & Marcel Meyer

Undergraduate research assistant, Ruhr-University Bochum 2015
Supervisor: Oliver T. Wolf

Undergraduate research assistant, Ruhr-University Bochum 2015
Supervisor: Lars Kuchinke

Internship, St. Joseph Hospital Bochum 2014
Neurological Clinic of the Ruhr-University Bochum
Supervisor: Christian Prehn

Teaching

Undergraduate supervisor, PBS4: Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience 2019/2020
University of Cambridge
Corpus Christi College

Tutor, Neurosciences 2019
Oxford Summer Courses

Undergraduate supervisor, PBS4: Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience 2018/2019
University of Cambridge
Corpus Christi College

Tutor, Neurosciences 2018
Oxford Summer Courses

Undergraduate supervisor, PBS4: Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience 2018
University of Cambridge
Wolfson College

Teaching staff, Introductory course for R (seminar) 2016
Ruhr-University Bochum
Faculty of Psychology

Teaching staff, Introductory course for R (seminar) 2015
Ruhr-University Bochum
Faculty of Psychology

Teaching assistant, Tutorial for 2nd year statistics 2014
Ruhr-University Bochum
Faculty of Psychology

Adhoc reviews for academic journals

  • Neurobiology of Learning and Memory
  • Brain and Cognition
  • Behavior Research Methods
  • Memory

Organisation of events

  • First virtual “Cambridge Fudan ECR Cognitive Neuroscience Symposium” (2020)
  • “Open Science Day 2018” at the MRC CBU, Cambridge

Membership in professional societies

  • British Neuroscience Association

Languages

  • German (native)
  • English (IELTS band score of 7.5)
  • Chinese (HSK3)
  • French (B1*)
  • Hebrew (A2*)

* According to Common European Framework of Reference for Languages