John-Dylan Haynes

John-Dylan Haynes is a Professor of Theory and Analysis of Large Scale Brain Signals at Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, leading the Berlin Center for Advanced Neuroimaging. His academic journey includes a PhD in Biology (2003, Bremen University) and a Diploma in Psychology (1997, Bremen University). His research focuses on decoding neural mechanisms underlying decision-making, attention, and conscious perception using advanced neuroimaging techniques.

Professional highlights include roles as Head of the independent research group “Attention and Awareness” at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences (Leipzig, 2005–2010), and postdoctoral positions at University College London and Plymouth University. He is an Editorial Board Member of NeuroImage and organizer of major conferences in computational neuroscience and cognitive science.

Haynes’ work bridges cognitive neuroscience with neuroimaging, emphasizing multivariate decoding methods to interpret large-scale brain signals. His recent publications explore rule representations in prefrontal cortex, saliency processing, and reward anticipation mechanisms. He leads interdisciplinary initiatives to advance neuroimaging technologies and their applications in understanding human cognition.