Alumni

Dr. med. Laura Albantakis, PhD
IMPRS-TP PhD Alumna graduated 2021 (Residency Program)PhD Medical Research on "The role of peripheral oxytocin levels and alexithymia in relation to stress and comorbid mental illness in adults with and without autism spectrum disorder" supervised by Leonhard Schilbach

Ane Cristina Ayo Martin, PhD
IMPRS-TP PhD Alumna
Florian Binder, PhD
IMPRS-TP PhD Alumnus graduated 2022MMRS LMU
PhD Medical Research on "Fear behavior in virtual reality" supervised by Victor Spoormaker

Dimitris Bolis, PhD
IMPRS-TP PhD Alumnus graduated 2020PhD Medical Research on ""I interact therefore I am" Human becoming in and through social interaction" supervised by Leonhard Schilbach

Elena Brivio, PhD
IMPRS-TP PhD Alumna graduated 2022MMRS LMU
PhD Medical Research on "Modulation of Acute Stress Transcriptional Signatures by Sex and History of Stress at Single-Cell Resolution" supervised by Alon Chen

Lea-Maria Brix, PhD
IMPRS-TP PhD Alumna
Dr. med. Lucia Bulubas, PhD
IMPRS-TP PhD Alumna graduated 2022 (Residency Program)MMRS LMU & Hospital Department of Psychiatry
PhD Medical Research on "Understanding of transcranial direct current stimulation effects in psychiatric disorders" supervised by Frank Padberg and Alkomiet Hasan

Linda Dieckmann, PhD
IMPRS-TP PhD Alumna graduated 2023MMRS LMU
PhD Medical Research on "Foundations in human development: Investigating the epigenetic roadmap in gestational and perinatal tissues" supervised by Elisabeth Binder

Francesco Di Matteo, PhD
IMPRS-TP Alumnus graduated 2024MMRS LMU
PhD Medical Research on "Investigation of molecular and cellular mechanisms in brain development and disorders" supervised by Silvia Cappello

Julia Fietz, PhD
IMPRS-TP PhD Alumna graduated 2024MMRS LMU
PhD Medical Research on "Reading the mind in the eye: How can we use pupillometry for the assessment of neurocognitive functioning in psychiatry?" supervised by Victor Spoormaker

Muriel Katja Frisch, PhD
IMPRS-TP PhD Alumna graduated 2023MMRS LMU
PhD Medical Research on "Contribution of genetic and environmental circadian disruptions to the development of comorbid behavioral and metabolic deficits in mice" supervised by Dominic Landgraf
Dr. rer. nat. Anna Fröhlich
IMPRS-TP PhD Alumna graduated 2024LMU Faculty of Biology
Research on "The ageing of the human brain - Transcriptomic changes throughout ageing revealed at cell-type resolution & their implications for neurodegenerative and psychiatric disorders" supervised by Elisabeth Binder

Liliana Ivonne Garcia Mondragon, PhD
IMPRS-TP PhD Alumna graduated 2023MMRS LMU
PhD Medical Research on "From Urbanicity to Genes: Transdiagnostic Approaches for Understanding Psychopathology" supervised by Elisabeth Binder

Dr. rer. nat. Nathalie Gerstner
IMPRS-TP PhD Alumna graduated 2024LMU Faculty of Biology
Research on "Decoding the Brain Mosaic: Region and Cell Type-Specific Dysregulation Patterns in Stress and Psychiatric Disorders" supervised by Janine Knauer-Arloth and Mathias Schmidt

Shalaila Haas, PhD
IMPRS-TP PhD Alumna graduated 2019PhD Medical Research on "Elucidating the efficacy and response to social cognitive training in recent-onset psychosis"
supervised by Nikolaos Koutsouleris

Laura Jiménez-Barrón, PhD
IMPRS-TP PhD Alumna graduated 2024MMRS LMU
PhD Medical Research on "Identification of in vitro model systems capable of capturing the polygenic basis of mental illness" supervised by Michael Ziller

Dr. med. János Kálmán, PhD
IMPRS-TP PhD Alumnus graduated 2022 (Residency Program)MMRS LMU & Hospital Department of Psychiatry
PhD Medical Research on "Genetic characterization of Age and Polarity at Onset in Bipolar Disorder " supervised by Thomas G. Schulze

Nils Kappelmann, PhD
IMPRS-TP PhD Alumnus graduated 2021Faculty of Medicine, LMU
PhD Medical Research on "Friendly fire: Untangling the role of inflammation in depression" supervised by Elisabeth Binder

Stoyo Karamihalev

Adyasha Khuntia, PhD
IMPRS-TP PhD Alumna graduated 2024/25MMRS LMU
PhD Medical Research on "Multi-scale, multi-modal stratification and comorbidity analysis of patients with psychotic disorders" supervised by Nikolaos Koutsouleris

Charlotte Kling, PhD
IMPRS-TP PhD Alumna graduated 2023PhD Medical Research on "The Role of Circadian Rhythms in Orexin Neurons of the Lateral Hypothalamus in the Regulation of Mood- and Anxiety-Related Behavior, and Metabolism in Mice" supervised by Dominic Landgraf

Lenka Krčmář, MD, PhD
IMPRS-TP Alumna graduated 2024MMRS LMU
PhD Medical Research on "Clinical Deep Phenotyping From Cognition to Brain and Retina in Severe Mental Illnesses" supervised by Andrea Schmitt

Anthi Kronitra, PhD
IMPRS-TP PhD Alumna graduated 2022MMRS LMU
PhD Medical Research on "Neurodevelopment under the prism of environmental challenges. Prenatal glucocorticoids and neurogenesis" supervised by Elisabeth Binder

Anne Kühnel, PhD
IMPRS-TP PhD Alumna graduated 2022MMRS LMU
PhD Medical Research on "Dynamic signatures of stress" supervised by Elisabeth Binder

Yi-An Liao, PhD
IMPRS-TP PhD Alumnus graduated 2022MMRS LMU
PhD Medical Research on "Mental health problems in urban neighbourhoods: the role of physical and social environment" supervised by Elisabeth Binder

Dr. rer. nat. Srivaishnavi Loganathan
IMPRS-TP PhD Alumna graduated 2022Biology, LMU
Research on "Unraveling the cell type-specific effects and mechanisms of cross-disorder risk gene CACNA1C" supervised by Jan Deussing

Benjamin Lohrer, PhD
IMPRS-TP PhD Alumnus graduated 2022MMRS LMU
PhD Medical Research on "Molecular dissection of pericyte-to-neuron reprogramming reveals cellular identity safeguarding mechanisms" supervised by Silvia Cappello and Marisa Karow

Ashley Lynn Lüttecke, PhD
IMPRS-TP PhD Alumna graduated 2020MMRS LMU & Hospital Department of Psychiatry
PhD Medical Research on "Understanding the involvement of environmental exposures, genetic risk and epigenetic mechanisms in the course of severe mental illness" supervised by Thomas G. Schulze

Dr. rer. nat. Lucas Miranda
IMPRS-TP PhD Alumnus graduated 2024TUM, Faculty of Medicine
Research on "Deep Clustering of Animal Motion Tracking Data: software development and applications to psychiatric preclinical research" supervised by Bertram Müller-Myhsok

Sylvain Moser
IMPRS-TP Alumnus graduated 2023
Dr. med. Ömer Faruk Öztürk, PhD
IMPRS-TP PhD Alumnus graduated 2024 (Residency Program)MMRS LMU
PhD Medical Research on "Phenotypical exploration and predictive utility of formal thought disorder in individuals with recent-onset of psychosis" supervised by Nikolaos Koutsouleris

Dr. rer. nat. Helena Pelin
IMPRS-TP PhD Alumna graduated 2022Experimental Medicine, TUM School of Medicine
Research on "Subtyping psychiatric disorders using unsupervised learning methods" supervised by Bertram Müller-Myhsok

Fabrizia Pipicelli, PhD
IMPRS-TP PhD Alumna graduated 2023MMRS LMU
PhD Medical Research on "Non-cell autonomous mechanisms in neurodevelopment and neurological disorders" supervised by Silvia Cappello

Dr. med. David Popovic, PhD
IMPRS-TP PhD Alumnus graduated 2022 (Residency Program)MMRS LMU & Hospital Department of Psychiatry
PhD Medical Research on "Investigation Of Childhood Trauma As A Transdiagnostic Risk Factor Using Multimodal Machine Learning" supervised by Nikolaos Koutsouleris
Dorothee Pöhlchen, PhD
IMPRS-TP PhD Alumna graduated 2023MMRS LMU
PhD Medical Research on "Neuroimaging and psychophysiological markers of fear-related disorders" supervised by Elisabeth Binder

Dr. med. Florian Raabe, PhD
IMPRS-TP PhD Alumnus graduated 2023 (Residency Program)MMRS LMU & Hospital Department of Psychiatry
PhD Medical Research on "Paving the way to investigate white matter pathology in schizophrenia with hiPSC-derived models" supervised by Moritz Rossner

Stephanie Rek, PhD
IMPRS-TP PhD Alumna graduated 2022MMRS LMU
PhD Medical Research on "Delineating the Psychosocial Impact of the Coronavirus Pandemic" supervised by Frank Padberg
Clemens Ries, PhD
IMPRS-TP PhD Alumnus graduated 2024Graduate School of Systemic Neuroscience, LMU
PhD Medical Research on "The Role of the CRH/CRHR1 System in Glial Cells following Acute Brain Injury" supervised by Jan Deussing

Nicolas Rost, PhD
IMPRS-TP PhD Alumnus graduated 2023MMRS LMU
PhD Medical Research on "Using Machine Learning to Predict Treatment Outcome in Depression – Hype or Hope?" supervised by Elisabeth Binder

Dr. rer. nat. Julia Ruat
IMPRS-TP PhD Alumna graduated 2022Faculty of Biology, LMU
Research on "Dissecting the neuronal basis of threat responding in mice" supervised by Alon Chen and Carsten Wotjak

Dr. rer. nat Christine Rummel
IMPRS-TP PhD Alumna graduated 2023Research on "Functional annotation of cell type and condition specific schizophrenia associated non-coding genetic variants in disease relevant cell types"

Aldo Soldini, MD, PhD
IMPRS-TP Alumnus, graduated 2024MMRS LMU
PhD Medical Research on "Transcranial direct-current stimulation of the prefrontal cortex, a multilevel analysis of data from a clinical trial in depression" supervised by Frank Padberg

Fabian Stamp, PhD
IMPRS-TP PhD Alumnus graduated 2022PhD Medical Research on "WTAP and YTHDC1: non-redundant regulators of adult brain functioning" supervised by Alon Chen and Elisabeth Binder

Dr. rer. nat. Marius Stephan
IMPRS-TP PhD Alumnus graduated 2023MMRS LMU, Molecular and Behavioural Neurobiology, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, LMU Klinikum
Research on "PsyCoP – a novel platform for deep behavioral phenotyping and its use for the characterization of high validity psychiatric mouse models" supervised by Moritz Rossner

Dr. rer. nat. Lotte van Doeselaar
IMPRS-TP PhD Alumna graduated 2023Faculty of Biology, LMU
Research on "FKBP51 in a dynamic environment: How FKBP51 shapes stress resilience in a sex- and cell type-specific manner" supervised by PD. Dr. Mathias Schmidt

Imme Christina Zillekens, PhD
IMPRS-TP PhD Alumna graduated 2020PhD Medical Research on "Social cognition and behavioral responses in kinematic interactions -neuroscientific evidence from a third-and second-person perspective" supervised by Leonhard Schilbach