Medical/Professional background
- 2007 – 2009
Dual Masters in Brain and Mind Sciences, 1 year at University College London, 1 year at Ecole Normale Supérieure and Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris (with distinction)
- 2004 – 2006
Bachelor of Science in Biomedicine, University of Würzburg (with distinction)
Scientific background
- 2020
W1-Tenure Track Professor for Social Neuroscience, Department of General Psychiatry, Heidelberg University Hospital
- 2018
Principal investigator Emmy-Noether research group “Human cooperation: A multimodal approach,” Institute for Systems Neuroscience, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf
- 2016 – 2017
Research stays (total duration of 2 months) at Harvard University
- 2016 – 2018
Postdoc, Institute for Systems Neuroscience, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf (within the Transregional Collaborative Research Centre SFB TRR 169 Crossmodal Learning)
- 2013 – 2016
Postdoc, Zurich University Hospital for Psychiatry, University of Zurich, Switzerland
- 2009 – 2013
Dr. phil. in Psychology, Freie Universität Berlin (summa cum laude; scholarship by Berlin School of Mind and Brain)
Commendations
- 2018
Preregistration Challenge: 2 prizes for publishing preregistered studies in an eligible journal, awarded by the Center for Open Science
- 2014
5th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting in Economic Sciences; invited as young scientist, selected for a personal meeting with the Federal Chancellor of Germany
- 2012
Science Slam 1st prize: Science Night Berlin, FUture Slam
Professional memberships
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Psychiatrie, Psychotherapie und Nervenheilkunde (DGPPN), Deutsche Gesellschaft für Psychologie (DGPs), Society for Neuroscience (SfN), Society for NeuroEconomics (SNE)
Grants
- since 2021
Educational project funded by the 4EU+ Management Committee for joint teaching course at Heidelberg University, Sorbonne University in Paris, and University of Milan
- since 2018
Emmy Noether research group “Human cooperation: A multimodal approach” (KO 5385/1-1)
- 2018
Research grant for young investigators by University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE)
- 2016 – 2017
Postdoc scholarship, initially awarded for full funding of a year at Harvard University plus research funds
- 2008 – 2009
German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) scholarship providing funding of a year in London
- 2007 – 2009
Fellowship at the Life Science College for Psychological Neuroscience by the German National Academic Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes)
- 2004 – 2009
Max Weber Programme scholarship of the Free State of Bavaria for Bachelor’s and Master’s studies