Workshop on how to rethink funding application processes in academia At the Zentrum für Interdisziplinäre Forschung (ZIF) in Bielefeld, scientists, funding agencies and meta-science people came together to rethink the way funding is allocated in academia. The workshop “More than luck” was organized by Rima-Maria Rahal. Finn Lübber presented our research on the lottery-first idea, […]
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Great news! The collaborative research center (CRC) TRR 418 on “Circadian Medicine” was granted to a Berlin-Lübeck research consortium As part of the CRC TRR 418, Prof Ines Wilhelm-Groch and Prof Sören Krach will be studying the chronobiological foundations of how social information processing is linked to time-of-day fluctuations and chronotype. Project title:
Successful CRC application “Circadian medicine”!! Read More »
New smartphone-based application for research launched! After almost 1.5 years of development, together with with genius programmer Karol Lassota (https://www.beyond-the-bit.de/) and with great support by the UniversitätsTransferKlinik (Martin Leucker), we are extremely proud to have launched our first SNL research application (now available in iOS and Android stores). Video produced by Yaryna Bitkovska
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Invited talk in Birmingham, UK. Thanks to Prof Lei Zhang, Sören Krach was invited to present research from the Social Neuroscience Lab on “Affected belief formation”. Thanks to David Stolz, the selfie was immediately adapted.
Lab visit in Birmingham on invitation by Lei Zhang! Read More »
Welcome in the team! In May 2025, Sara Weber joined the lab, and Laura Rosenbusch returned after accomplishing her clinical training. Sara and Laura will now start their PhDs on social learning in adolescence.
New and new-old team members in the Social Neuroscience Lab! Read More »
Successful PhD defense! Today, Nora Czekalla successfully defended her PhD and is now a new postdoc in the SNL! Congratulations! Thanks to Mario Gollwitzer (LMU Munich) and Corinna Peifer (chair of the committee; from within Lübeck) University), we had a great panel of reviewers and very intense and inspiring Q&A. Now, after more than 8
New postdoc in the lab! Congratulations, Nora, for the successful PhD defense!! Read More »
We are announcing a new lectures series on the topic of “control” We are extremely happy to announce this new summer term lectures series on “control”, co-organized with our colleagues Felix Blankenburg and Timo Schmidt (FU Berlin). We will hear great talks from international speakers: 05.05.2025 Opening by Sören Krach und David Stolz (on-site at
CCNB-Lectures Series hosted together with the SNL! Read More »
Visit from Vienna, Austria! Today, Giorgia Silani visited the Social Neuroscience Lab and gave a presentation on “Disrupted homeostasis: is the social domain special?”
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Article in Forschung & Lehre In this article, Gerald Schweiger, Lutz Bornmann, and Sören Krach discuss the dilemma of distributing scarce research funding, both in an efficient, but also effective way. The article was published in March, 2025.
„Kontextuale Reproduzierbarkeit innerhalb akademischer Arbeitsstrukturen” Frieder Paulus was invited at the 4th Helmholtz Reproducibility Workshop to present research and own experiences on reproducibility in the context of academic work environments.
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