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Friday, 03 July 2026 09:56

Sophie Arndt defended her master's thesis with success

 Last week, Sophie Arndt defended her master’s thesis entitled “A clustering analysis of structural and functional brain features in children at familial high risk of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder and their links to general functioning”, and she can now officially call herself a Biomedical Engineer (MSc in Engineering).

“For my thesis, I used unsupervised clustering methods to analyze neurophysiological and neuroimaging data from 11–12-year-old children in the Danish High Risk and Resilience Study. The goal was to investigate how different brain measures cluster together and whether they could provide insight into general functioning and behavioral challenges in children at familial high risk of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder.

A huge thank you to my supervisors, Melissa Larsen and Morten Moerup , for their guidance and support throughout the project. Thanks also to my co-supervisors, Júlia Díaz i Calvete and Mathias Houe Andersen, for their thoughtful discussions and valuable feedback. I’m also grateful to everyone at the Danish Research Centre for Magnetic Resonance (DRCMR) for creating such a welcoming and inspiring environment to work in. Finally, thank you to my friends and family for your endless encouragement over the past five years. I couldn’t have done it without you.”

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