Tim Schaefer

@aesthetics.mpg.de

Research Sofware Engineer, Department of Cognitive Neuropsychology
Max-Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics

Tim Schaefer


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EDUCATION

PhD, Bioinformatics. Goethe-University Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.

RESEARCH, TEACHING, or OTHER INTERESTS

Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology, Multidisciplinary
618

Scholar Citations

14

Scholar h-index

16

Scholar i10-index

RECENT SCHOLAR PUBLICATIONS

  • 298. Bridging the Scales: Personalized Cellular Disease Modelling Links Variability of Synaptic Deficits to the Degree of Cognitive Impairments in Schizophrenia
    F Raabe, D Popovic, A Levina, T Schäfer, P Falkai, D Keeser, M Ziller
    Biological Psychiatry 99 (10), S227-S228 , 2026
    2026
  • Bridging the Scales via Personalized Cellular Modeling and Deep Phenotyping in Schizophrenia
    FJ Raabe, D Popovic, C Vetter, LE Fischer, G Hasanaj, B Karslı, ...
    JAMA psychiatry , 2026
    2026
    Citations: 1
  • Unraveling stress response pathways in human astrocytes: a multi-model approach
    T Schäfer, AC Krontira, A Zilaki, D Kaul, C Kyrousi, D Czamara, N Matosin, ...
    Neuroscience Applied 5, 105891 , 2026
    2026
  • Data-driven burst shape analysis for functional phenotyping of neuronal cultures
    TJ Schäfer, E Giannakakis, P Schmidt-Barbo, A Levina, O Vinogradov
    bioRxiv, 2025.09. 29.679256 , 2025
    2025
  • Don't omit burst shapes! Transient network events contain information about genetic background and experimental conditions complementary to traditional burst features
    TJ Schäfer, E Giannakakis, B Schmidt-Barbo, O Vinogradov, S Safavi
    Bernstein Conference 2025 , 2025
    2025
  • Parsing Autism Heterogeneity: Transcriptomic Subgrouping of Imaging-Derived Phenotypes in Autism
    J Leyhausen, C Gurr, LM Berg, H Seelemeyer, B Hermila, T Schäfer, ...
    Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging , 2025
    2025
    Citations: 4
  • Neuroanatomical Correlates of Adaptive Outcomes in Autism
    H Seelemeyer, C Gurr, J Leyhausen, L Berg, CM Pretzsch, T Schäfer, ...
    INSAR 2025 , 2025
    2025
  • Evaluating Deep Learning Methods for the Correlation of Motion Artifacts Correction in Structural MRI Scans
    B Hermila, H Seelemeyer, J Leyhausen, L Berg, CM Pretzsch, T Schäfer, ...
    INSAR 2025 , 2025
    2025
  • Bridging the scales: leveraging personalized disease models and deep phenotyping to dissect cognitive impairment in schizophrenia
    FJ Raabe, D Popovic, C Vetter, G Hasanaj, B Karslı, LE Fischer, ...
    Medrxiv, 2025.02. 25.25322779 , 2025
    2025
    Citations: 2
  • Decomposing the brain in autism: Linking behavioral domains to neuroanatomical variation and genomic underpinnings
    H Seelemeyer, C Gurr, J Leyhausen, LM Berg, CM Pretzsch, T Schäfer, ...
    Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging , 2024
    2024
    Citations: 3
  • Patterns of brain maturation in autism and their molecular associations
    CM Pretzsch, M Arenella, JP Lerch, MV Lombardo, C Beckmann, ...
    JAMA psychiatry 81 (12), 1253-1264 , 2024
    2024
    Citations: 17
  • Systems Neuroscience Computing in Python (SyNCoPy): a python package for large-scale analysis of electrophysiological data
    G Mönke, T Schäfer, M Parto-Dezfouli, DS Kajal, S Fürtinger, JT Schmiedt, ...
    Frontiers in Neuroinformatics 18, 1448161 , 2024
    2024
    Citations: 2
  • Unsupervised clustering of burst shapes reveals the increasing complexity of developing networks in vitro
    TJ Schäfer, E Giannakakis, P Schmidt-Barbo, A Levina, O Vinogradov
    Bernstein Conference 2024 , 2024
    2024
  • Signatures of fractal temporal dependencies are correlated between MEG and fMRI
    TJ Schäfer, A Gharabaghi, A Levina
    Bernstein Conference 2024 , 2024
    2024
  • Modular Growth of Hierarchical Networks: Efficient, General, and Robust Curriculum Learning
    M Hamidi, S Khajehabdollahi, E Giannakakis, TJ Schäfer, A Levina, ...
    Artificial Life Conference Proceedings 36 2024 (1), 55 , 2024
    2024
    Citations: 1
  • Emergent mechanisms for long timescales depend on training curriculum and affect performance in memory tasks
    S Khajehabdollahi, R Zeraati, E Giannakakis, T Schäfer, G Martius, ...
    International Conference on Learning Representations 2024, 19455-19482 , 2024
    2024
    Citations: 12
  • Differences in intrinsic gray matter connectivity and their genomic underpinnings in autism spectrum disorder
    J Leyhausen, T Schäfer, C Gurr, LM Berg, H Seelemeyer, CM Pretzsch, ...
    Biological psychiatry 95 (2), 175-186 , 2024
    2024
    Citations: 14
  • The neuroanatomical substrates of autism and ADHD and their link to putative genomic underpinnings
    LM Berg, C Gurr, J Leyhausen, H Seelemeyer, A Bletsch, T Schaefer, ...
    Molecular autism 14 (1), 36 , 2023
    2023
    Citations: 25
  • Role of single-neuron and network-mediated timescales in recurrent neural networks solving long-memory tasks
    R Zeraati, S Khajehabdollahi, E Giannakakis, TJ Schäfer, G Martius, ...
    2023
  • Accurately measuring Hurst (~ 1/f) exponents in neurophysiological-like data: Broad-band and envelope of oscillations
    TJ Schäfer, A Levina
    Bernstein Conference 2023 , 2023
    2023

MOST CITED SCHOLAR PUBLICATIONS

  • Excitatory/inhibitory imbalance in autism: the role of glutamate and GABA gene-sets in symptoms and cortical brain structure
    V Hollestein, G Poelmans, NJ Forde, CF Beckmann, C Ecker, C Mann, ...
    Translational Psychiatry 13 (1), 18 , 2023
    2023
    Citations: 125
  • Enhancing precision in human neuroscience
    S Nebe, M Reutter, DH Baker, J Bölte, G Domes, M Gamer, A Gärtner, ...
    Elife 12, e85980 , 2023
    2023
    Citations: 77
  • Interindividual differences in cortical thickness and their genomic underpinnings in autism spectrum disorder
    C Ecker, CM Pretzsch, A Bletsch, C Mann, T Schaefer, S Ambrosino, ...
    American Journal of Psychiatry 179 (3), 242-254 , 2022
    2022
    Citations: 75
  • fsbrain: an R package for the visualization of structural neuroimaging data
    T Schäfer, C Ecker
    Biorxiv, 2020.09. 18.302935 , 2020
    2020
    Citations: 40
  • Neurobiological correlates of change in adaptive behavior in autism
    CM Pretzsch, T Schäfer, MV Lombardo, V Warrier, C Mann, A Bletsch, ...
    American Journal of Psychiatry 179 (5), 336-349 , 2022
    2022
    Citations: 39
  • Longitudinal changes in cortical thickness in adolescents with autism spectrum disorder and their association with restricted and repetitive behaviors
    V Bieneck, A Bletsch, C Mann, T Schäfer, H Seelemeyer, N Herøy, ...
    Genes 12 (12), 2024 , 2021
    2021
    Citations: 28
  • The neuroanatomical substrates of autism and ADHD and their link to putative genomic underpinnings
    LM Berg, C Gurr, J Leyhausen, H Seelemeyer, A Bletsch, T Schaefer, ...
    Molecular autism 14 (1), 36 , 2023
    2023
    Citations: 25
  • Bioinformatics analysis of whole slide images reveals significant neighborhood preferences of tumor cells in Hodgkin lymphoma
    J Hannig, H Schäfer, J Ackermann, M Hebel, T Schäfer, C Döring, ...
    PLoS Computational Biology 16 (1), e1007516 , 2020
    2020
    Citations: 24
  • CD30 cell graphs of Hodgkin lymphoma are not scale-free—an image analysis approach
    H Schäfer, T Schäfer, J Ackermann, N Dichter, C Döring, S Hartmann, ...
    Bioinformatics 32 (1), 122-129 , 2016
    2016
    Citations: 22
  • Protein super-secondary structure and quaternary structure topology: theoretical description and application
    I Koch, T Schäfer
    Current Opinion in Structural Biology 50, 134-143 , 2018
    2018
    Citations: 21
  • Atypical measures of diffusion at the gray‐white matter boundary in autism spectrum disorder in adulthood
    A Bletsch, T Schäfer, C Mann, DS Andrews, E Daly, M Gudbrandsen, ...
    Human Brain Mapping 42 (2), 467-484 , 2021
    2021
    Citations: 18
  • Image database analysis of Hodgkin lymphoma
    T Schäfer, H Schäfer, A Schmitz, J Ackermann, N Dichter, C Döring, ...
    Computational biology and chemistry 46, 1-7 , 2013
    2013
    Citations: 18
  • Patterns of brain maturation in autism and their molecular associations
    CM Pretzsch, M Arenella, JP Lerch, MV Lombardo, C Beckmann, ...
    JAMA psychiatry 81 (12), 1253-1264 , 2024
    2024
    Citations: 17
  • Cross-sectional and longitudinal neuroanatomical profiles of distinct clinical (adaptive) outcomes in autism
    CM Pretzsch, DL Floris, T Schäfer, A Bletsch, C Gurr, MV Lombardo, ...
    Molecular Psychiatry 28 (5), 2158-2169 , 2023
    2023
    Citations: 16
  • Differences in intrinsic gray matter connectivity and their genomic underpinnings in autism spectrum disorder
    J Leyhausen, T Schäfer, C Gurr, LM Berg, H Seelemeyer, CM Pretzsch, ...
    Biological psychiatry 95 (2), 175-186 , 2024
    2024
    Citations: 14
  • Emergent mechanisms for long timescales depend on training curriculum and affect performance in memory tasks
    S Khajehabdollahi, R Zeraati, E Giannakakis, T Schäfer, G Martius, ...
    International Conference on Learning Representations 2024, 19455-19482 , 2024
    2024
    Citations: 12
  • Computation and visualization of protein topology graphs including ligand information
    T Schäfer, P May, I Koch
    German Conference on Bioinformatics 2012, 108-118 , 2012
    2012
    Citations: 9
  • Automated image analysis of hodgkin lymphoma
    A Schmitz, T Schäfer, H Schäfer, C Döring, J Ackermann, N Dichter, ...
    arXiv preprint arXiv:1209.3189 , 2012
    2012
    Citations: 7
  • Freesurferformats: Read and write ‘FreeSurfer’neuroimaging file formats
    T Schäfer
    R , 2021
    2021
    Citations: 6
  • The new protein topology graph library web server
    T Schäfer, A Scheck, D Bruneß, P May, I Koch
    Bioinformatics 32 (3), 474-476 , 2016
    2016
    Citations: 6