Professional Career
2004 Diploma in Psychology, University Koblenz-Landau
2005-2008 PhD Student in Psychobiology (Scholarship of the Nikolaus-Koch-Foundation), Department of Clinical Physiology, Institute of Psychobiology, University of Trier
PhD Thesis: Classical conditioning in the context of hypocortisolism
Member of the International Research Trainig Group „Psychoneuroendocrinology of stress – from molecules and genes to affect and cognition“ (Universität Trier, Universität Leiden)
since 2008 Post-doctoral fellow at the Department of Cognitive and Clinical Neuroscience, Central Institute of Mental Health, Mannheim
Research
- Neural correlates and peripheral mechanisms of learning and memory
- Influence of cortisol on learning
- Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), psychophysiology(EMG, EDA, EKG)
- Startle, Prepulse Inhibition (PPI)
- Psychobiology of addictive disorders
- Phychophysiology of pain
Teaching
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