Lada Kohoutová

Postdoctoral researcher, Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience, Neuro-X Institute, Faculty of Life Sciences, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), Geneva, Switzerland · ladakohoutova at gmail dot com

I’m currently a postdoctoral fellow at Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience, Neuro-X Institute, Faculty of Life Sciences, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL) in Geneva, Switzerland, studying processing of subjective experiences such as pain or hallucinations in the brain using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data. See my full CV here.

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Research experience

Postdoctoral researcher

Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience, Neuro-X Institute, Faculty of Life Sciences, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), Geneva, Switzerland

Advisor: Prof. Olaf Blanke

Jul. 2024 - present

Postdoctoral researcher

Department of Biomedical Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University, Center for Neuroscience Imaging Research (CNIR), Institute for Basic Science (IBS), Suwon, South Korea

Advisor: Dr. Choong-Wan Woo

Mar. 2023 - Mar. 2024

Graduate researcher

Department of Biomedical Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University, Center for Neuroscience Imaging Research (CNIR), Institute for Basic Science (IBS), Suwon, South Korea

Advisor: Dr. Choong-Wan Woo

Mar. 2019 - Feb. 2023

Post-master research assistant

Department of Biomedical Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University, Center for Neuroscience Imaging Research (CNIR), Institute for Basic Science (IBS), Suwon, South Korea

Advisor: Dr. Choong-Wan Woo

Aug. 2017 - Feb. 2019

Education

Department of Biomedical Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon, South Korea

Doctor of Philosophy
Thesis: Representations of neuroimaging-based predictive models of pain and beyond: validation and insight

Advisor: Dr. Choong-Wan Woo

2019 - 2023

Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Czech Technical University, Prague, Czechia

Master of Science
Major: Multimedia Technology

Summa cum Laude

2015 - 2017
2012 - 2015

Individual variability in brain representations of pain

Lada Kohoutová, Lauren Y. Atlas, Christian Büchel, Jason T. Buhle, Stephan Geuter, Marieke Jepma, Leonie Koban, Anjali Krishnan, Dong Hee Lee, Sungwoo Lee, Mathieu Roy, Scott M. Schafer, Liane Schmidt, Tor D. Wager & Choong-Wan Woo. Nature Neuroscience.

May 2022

Toward a unified framework for interpreting machine-learning models in neuroimaging

Lada Kohoutová, Juyeon Heo, Sungmin Cha, Sungwoo Lee, Taesup Moon, Tor D. Wager & Choong-Wan Woo. Nature Protocols.

March 2020

Skills

Technical Tools
  • Matlab
  • R
  • Python
  • FSL
  • SPM
Languages
  • Czech - native
  • English - proficient
  • Korean - lower intermediate
  • French - lower intermediate

Outside the lab

Music

I play the guitar and sing and sometimes write songs. I’m also learning to play the clarinet, and I occasionally pick up the autoharp, ukulele, or recorder. From time to time, I upload some of my music attempts to my youtube channel.

Baking

I am a junkie for sourdough. I have been growing my yeast colony since early 2020, so I’ve been basically living on bread, pancakes, pizza, kolache and other experiments since then.

Gym

Powered by my sourdough carbs, I lift.

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