
After graduating in Psychology at the University Tübingen, I started PhD in 2013 at the University Hospital Aachen. I conducted studies on the neural modulation of social stress, aggression and risky decision-making in healthy and patient groups. My research interest is the investigation of diverse brain mechanisms that underlie social behaviors in humans. Currently, I am specifically interested in hormonal modulation of the brain e.g. via exogenous testosterone.

After obtaining my Master’s degree in Cognitive Neuroscience at Maastricht University, I pursued my PhD at RWTH Aachen University. In my research I combine both fMRI and non-invasive brain stimulation, to study the neurobiological mechanisms underlying attention, memory and executive functions. More recently, I started to examine the influence of gender and aggression on fMRI-based resting-state networks.