Robert Glosemeyer successfully defended his medical doctor thesis today! In 2017 Robert participated as a subject in an fMRI study of our group. After scanning he openly asked whether we would supervise his medical doctor thesis as he was interested in fMRI and social cognitive processes. We agreed and Robert started with the question …
Starting on October 15th, Yana Schwarze will begin her PhD in our lab. Yana obtained her BA in Cognitive Neuroscience at Osnabrück University and then moved on to do her MA at Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University. In our lab, Yana will work in the intersection of social reward, addiction and …
Today, Annalina V. Mayer successfully defended her PhD! Huge congratulations, Annalina! Annalina started as one of our first student assistants back in 2015. Very quickly she became a full member of our lab. At that time we were setting up a huge, multi-center (Leipzig/Lübeck) oxytocin trial on autism and were very convinced that Annalina …
Another superb news! Clara Weber, currently doing a research stay at Yale School of Medicine, has received the University Lübeck medicine-informatics stipend for her MD project “Microstructural White Matter Alterations in Autism Spectrum Disorder”.
Great news! Laura Müller-Pinzler has received the 2021 Best Paper Award at the NeuroPsychoEconomics conference in Amsterdam for the presentation of her latest project in the symposium “Social Neuroeconomics” (Chair: Jan Engelmann). Abstract Biases in self-related belief formation and their association with self-conscious affect During everyday interactions people constantly receive feedback on their behavior, …
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Huge congratulations to David Stolz for successfully defending his PhD! Back in October 2015 David started his PhD in the Social Neuroscience Lab based on a joke about his last name (Stolz = pride). Before 2015, several of our research projects centered around the neural processes underlying the unpleasant emotion of embarrassment (see e.g. “Neural …
Starting in Oktober, Alexander Schröder will begin his PhD in our lab. Alexander obtained his BA/MA in Psychology at the University of Lübeck. In his PhD he will focus on social learning and the effect of sleep on the abstraction of social information.
Starting on June, Finn Lübber will begin his PhD in our lab in close collaboration with Tanja Lange (Psychoneuroimmunology). Finn is a M.Sc. in Molecular Life Sciences and M.A. in Psychology, which he finished at Wake Forest University.
After several years, next to working as a physician at the Klinikum Neukölln (Berlin) in the field of neurology, Banafsche Sayyad has finally finished her MD in our lab! Congratulations! In her thesis, Banafsche examined how “sex/gender” is operationalised in functional MRI research and what consequences and implications such operationalisations carry. Therefore Banafsche analysed 34 …
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Clara Weber, PhD student at the Social Neuroscience Lab, has been granted a scholarship to examine the microstructural and functional correlates of autism at the Yale School of Medicine. At Yale School of medicine she will be supervised by Professor Sam Payabvash.
