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(since 2010)
Laboratory of Aging and Cognitive Diseases
European Neuroscience Institute
Thesis Title: "Epigenomic Imaging of Neuropsychatric Diseases: The Role of Chromatin Plasticity
in Schizophrenia and anxiety diseases."
Thesis Committee: Prof. A. Fischer, Prof. Bayer, Prof. Hörner, Prof. Falkai
(since 2008)
Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory
German Primate Center
Thesis Title: "Role of attention in processing of visual motion stimuli."
Thesis Committee: Prof. Treue, Dr. Gail, Prof. Wolf
(since 2011)
Clinical Neurophysiology, University Medical Center Goettingen
German Primate Center
Thesis Title: "Impact of neuromodulators on stimulation-induced plasticity in humans."
Thesis Committee: PD Dr. Nitsche, Prof. Kröner-Herwig, Prof. Mattler
(since 2009)
Max-Planck-Institut für Experimentelle Medizin
Thesis Title: "Effect of Erythropoietin on neuronal mitochondrial function and morphology
in degenerative processes."
Thesis Committee: Prof. Ehrenreich, Prof. Nave, Jun.-Prof. Müller
(since 2009)
German Primate Center
Thesis Title: "Implicit and explicit processing of vocal expressions of emotions."
Thesis Committee: Prof. J. Fischer, Prof. Frahm, Prof. Thiel (Oldenburg)
(since 2010)
Cognitive Science Laboratory
German Primate Center
Thesis Title: "Attention, saccade and reward in dorsal stream of macaques."
Thesis Committee: Prof. Treue, PD Dr. Dechent, Dr. Gail, Prof. Wolf
(since 2011)
Max-Planck-Institut für Experimentelle Medizin
Thesis Title: "Dopaminergic Modulatin of Neuroplasticity and Cognition."
Thesis Committee: PD Dr. Nitsche, Prof. Waldmann, Prof. Fuchs
(since 2011)
Max-Planck-Institut für Experimentelle Medizin, Göttingen
Thesis Title: "Autism-related genes in schizophrenia."
Thesis Committee: Prof. Ehrenreich, Prof. A. Fischer, Prof. Brose
(since 2008)
Max-Planck-Institut für Experimentelle Medizin
Thesis Title: "Basic research on EPO in MS."
Thesis Committee: Prof. Ehrenreich, Prof. Nave, Prof. Bayer
(since 2010)
Max-Planck-Institut für Experimentelle Medizin
Thesis Title: "Influence of genetic variations in candidate genes on phenotypes of psychiatric disorders.""
Thesis Committee: Prof. Ehrenreich, Dr. Gibbons, Prof. Bickeböller
(since 2010)
Clinical Neurophysiology, Universitätsklinikum Göttingen
Thesis Title: "Neuroplastic changes induced by transcranial electrical stimulation in
the functional magnetic resonance tomography: the effect of multichannel stimulation using different frequency ranges "
Thesis Committee: Prof. Antal, Prof. Wörgötter, Prof. Hörner
(since 2011)
Deutsches Primatenzentrum, Abt. Neurobiologie
Thesis Title: "Neural representation of grasping kinematics in pre- and primary motor cortex."
Thesis Committee: Prof. Scherberger, Prof. Treue, Dr. Gail, Prof. Moser
(since 2009)
Deutsches Primatenzentrum, Abt. Kognitive Ethologie
Thesis Title: "Social and Physical Cognition in Old World monkeys: a comparative perspective."
Thesis Committee: Prof. J. Fischer, Prof. Waldmann, Prof. Rakoczy, Prof. Nieder
(since 2010)
Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Research Group "Sleep and Waking"
Thesis Title: "Molecular Analysis of Sleep in Caenorhabditis elegans."
Thesis Committee: Dr. Bringmann, Prof. Heinrich, Prof. Nave
(since 2011)
German Primate Center, Clinical Neurosciences
Thesis Title: "role of the prefrontal cortex in guiding visual attention in macaque monkeys."
Thesis Committee: Prof. Treue, Prof. Scherberger, Dr. Gail, Prof. Wilke
(since 2010)
Deutsches Primatenzentrum, Abt. Kognitive Neurowissenschaften
Thesis Title: "The modulation and control of attentional influences in the cortex of non-human primates"
Thesis Committee: Prof. Treue, Dr. Gail, Prof. Scherberger
(since 2011)
Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Research Group "Sleep and Waking"
Thesis Title: "Analysis of the sleep homeostat of Caenorhabditis elegans"
Thesis Committee: Dr. Bringmann, Prof. Stumpner, Prof. Frahm
(since 2008)
Deutsches Primatenzentrum, Abteilung Kognitive Neurowissenschaften
Thesis Title: "The influence of spatial attention on motion processing."
Thesis Committee: Prof. Treue, Dr. Gail, Prof. J. Fischer
(since 2011)
Max-Planck-Institut für Experimentelle Medizin
Thesis Title: "Contribution of fragile x-related gene variants to the schizophrenic phenotype."
Thesis Committee: Prof. Ehrenreich, Prof. A. Fischer, Prof. Lass
(since 2009)
Max-Planck-Institut für Experimentelle Medizin
Thesis Title: "Mouse models of neuropsychiatric diseases: Genotype / phenotype relations in connection with additional environmental factors as second hits."
Thesis Committee: Prof. Ehrenreich, Prof. Brose, Prof. Bayer
(since 2011)
Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Research Group "Sleep and Waking"
Thesis Title: "Transcriptional control of sleep in C. elegans."
Thesis Committee: Dr. Bringmann, Prof. Paulus, Dr. Oster
(since 2011)
Max-Planck-Institut für Experimentelle Medizin
Thesis Title: "Erythropoietin effects in the brain: From cognition to Microglia."
Thesis Committee: Prof. Ehrenreich, Prof. Nave, Prof. Hanisch
(since 2009)
Psychiatry and Psychotherapy/Molecular Psychiatry, Universitätsklinikum Göttingen
Thesis Title: "The contribution of Abeta N3pE to the etiology of Alzheimer´s disease."
Thesis Committee: Prof. Bayer, Prof. Ehrenreich, Prof. A. Fischer
(since 2008)
Clinical Neurophysiology, Universitätsklinikum Göttingen
Thesis Title: "Developmental, physiological and Pharmacological validation of a comprehensive model of stress-induced depression."
Thesis Committee: Prof. Fuchs, Prof. Hörner, Prof. Paulus