Scientific Education and Academic Degrees
2019
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Dresden University of Technology, Faculty of Medicine C. G. Caru
2011-2014
Dresden University of Technology, Faculty of Medicine C. G. Carus: Modular Leadership Training Program
2011
Habilitation (Venia legendi): Experimental Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
2007-2011
Institute for Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Brandenburg: Training in Psychotherapy
2006
Doctoral thesis: Neurology, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
2005
Doctor of Medicine (MD), Charité -Universitätsmedizin Berlin
2000-2004
Educational Science and Human Development, Humboldt University Berlin
Clinical and Academic Appointments
since 2016
TU Dresden, Division of Psychological & Social Medicine and Developmental Neurosciences: Head of the Division (W3); Head of the Eating Disorder Research and Treatment Center at the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
since 2015
TU Dresden, Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry: Professor of Translational Developmental Neuroscience, Vice Director of the Department, Deputy Chief Consultant and Head of the Eating Disorder Research and Treatment Center
since 2013
TU Dresden, Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry: Professor of Translational Developmental Neuroscience, Deputy Chief Consultant and Head of the Eating Disorder Research and Treatment Center, and Head of the Translational Developmental Neuroscience Research Section
2010-2012
TU Dresden, Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry: Professor of Translational Developmental Neuroscience (W2 – tenured), Head of the Eating Disorder Treatment & Research Program, and Head of the Translational Developmental Neuroscience Research Section
2008-2010
Harvard Medical School, Department of Psychiatry, MGH, Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Boston: Clinical research fellow/ post doc
2005-2008
Charité University Hospital Berlin, Resident in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry & Resident in Psychiatry
Awards
2012-2022
Focus: listed as one of Germany's best physicians (Psychiatry, Eating Disorders)
2015
Christina Barz Research Award for Eating Disorder Research
2012
Hilde-Bruch-Research Award for Eating Disorders of the DGESS
2011
NARSAD Young Investigator Award: "Intermediate phenotypes in schizophrenia"
2010
AED Early Career Investigator Fellowship
2009
DGKJP August-Homburger-Research-Award
2002-2004
Fellow of the International Academy of Life Science (IALS)
1999-2005
German National Academic Foundation - Exceptional Talent Fellow
Editorial Boards
since 2014
Member of the editorial board/associate editor of: Journal of Eating and Weight Disorders – Studies on Anorexia, Bulimia and Obesity (2014); Frontiers in Genetics, Section Behavioral and Psychiatric Genetics (2015); Nature - Scientific Reports (2016); Journal of Psychiatry and Neurosciences (2018); Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (2020)