Andraž Matkovič

Researcher
Department of Psychology, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana
Email: andraz.matkovic@ff.uni-lj.si

Education

2017– PhD in Statistics, University of Ljubljana
Advisor: Prof. Grega Repovš
Co-advisor: Asst. Prof. Lovro Šubelj

2012–2015 M. Sc. Psychology, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana
Thesis: Vpliv splošne in specifične utrujenost kognitivnega nadzora na ustvarjalnost [Influence of general and specific fatigue of cognitive control on creativity]
Advisor: Prof. Grega Repovš

2009–2012 B. Sc. Psychology, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana

Professional experience

2016–	researcher, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana
2017–2020	researcher, Department of Neurology, University Medical Centre Ljubljana
2015–2016	researcher, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ljubljana
2014–2017	administrative worker, SiNAPSA, Slovenian Neuroscience Association
2015–2016	journalist, Zavod Radio Študent (Science redaction)

Teaching

MEi:CogSci - Cognitive science (Middle European Interdisciplinary Master Programme in Cognitive Science), University of Ljubljana

• Advanced cognitive neuroscience - lab course (2016/17–)
• Cognitive psychology 1 - lab course (2016/17–2018/19)

Department of Psychology, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana

• Cognitive psychology - lab course (2015/16–2016/17)

Editorial service

• Panika, ISSN 1318-8747, editor-in-chief (2013–2014)
• eSinapsa, ISSN 2232-4178, technical editor (2015–2017), editor-in-chief (2017), editorial board member (2015–)
• Matkovič, A. in Koritnik, B. (2015). SiNAPSA Neuroscience Conference '15, Book of abstracts. SiNAPSA, Slovenian Neuroscience Society: Ljubljana.
• Matkovič, A. in Bresjanac, M. (2017). SiNAPSA Neuroscience Conference '17, Book of abstracts. SiNAPSA, Slovenian Neuroscience Society: Ljubljana.

Membership in professional organizations

• SiNAPSA, Slovenian Neuroscience Society
• Federation of European Neuroscience Associations, FENS

Organization of meetings

SiNAPSA Neuroscience Conference '17
September 29–30 2017, Ljubljana, Slovenia
[Organizing committee chair]

SiNAPSA Neuroscience Conference '15
May 15–17 2015, Ljubljana, Slovenia
[Organizing committee member]

Membership in professional organizations

• SiNAPSA, Slovenian Neuroscience Association
• Federation of European Neuroscience Associations (FENS)

Invited talks

January 2020 - Basic of brain network analysis, NetSlo '20, Ljubljana, Slovenia

October 2019 - Time-frequency analysis of EEG data, Section for Clinical Neurophysiology at Slovenian Medical Association, Ljubljana, Slovenia.

September 2018 - Basics of EEG and its use in the study of cognition (workshop), 13th Alps Adria Psychology Conference, Ljubljana, Slovenia

February 2018 - Walk through the circles of scientific hell and the way out of it, Seminar @ IBMI, Ljubljana, Slovenia

January 2018 - Walk through the circles of scientific hell and the way out of it, SiNAPSA seminars, Ljubljana, Slovenia

Current research projects

Stable and dynamic patterns of EEG and fMR functional connectivity and its association with individual differences (funded by Slovenian Research Agency) Department of Psychology, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana

Subjective cognitive complaint: definition of the entitiy and determining of predictive markers for progression into mild cognitive disorder and dementia (funded by Slovenian Research Agency) Department of Neurology, University Medical Centre Ljubljana

Previous projects

P3 and the oddball variants
Department of Psychology, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana

Cross-cultural validation of the ways of savouring scale
Department of Psychology, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana

The factor structure of Slovene personality adjectives
Department of Psychology, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana

Research interests

• dynamic functional connectivity
• statistical analysis of EEG data
• neuropsychopharmacology