Alumni

A former fellow of the Max Planck UCL Centre in London, Nadim worked with Dr Stephen Fleming, Dr Quentin Huys, and Professor Ray Dolan on understanding the relationship between symptoms of mental illness and deficits in metacognitive ability. Nadim left the centre in the Fall of 2020. more

Dominik Bach heads the Threat Avoidance Group at the London site of the Max Planck UCL Centre. He will retain and continue to direct the group until late 2023. He is now at the University of Bonn. more

Rachel Bedder is a graduate of the IMPRS COMP2PSYCH programme and was a member of the research team of the Rutledge Lab in London. After defending her dissertation in April 2021, she joins Prof. Yael Niv's lab at Princeton Neuroscience in July 2021. more

Bastien Blain joined the Affective Brain Lab, headed by Tali Sharot, at University College London as a research associate in Spring 2020. He previously worked with Robb Rutledge on mood dynamics and their link to decision making. more

Benjamin is a graduate of the IMPRS COMP2PSYCH programme and was a member of the research team of the Rutledge Lab in London. more

Samson Chien was a Postdoc in the Computational Decision Making and Learning Group headed by Nico Schuck until September 2021. He now works as a freelance data scientist.

Lorenz Deserno was a postdoctoral fellow at the London site of the Max Planck UCL Centre until Spring 2020. Since then he has joined the faculty of the University of Würzburg, Germany, as an Associate Professor for Neuroscience in Developmental Psychiatry. He is also a Research Associate at the Department of Neurology, headed by Prof. Dr. Arno Villringer, at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Leipzig. more

Magda Dubois was a fellow of the IMPRS COMP2PSYCH programme in London under the supervision of Tobias Hauser. She defended her dissertation at UCL in Fall 2022.  more

Eran Eldar was a postdoctoral fellow at the London site of the Max Planck UCL Centre until 2018. He joined the faculty of the Department of Cognitive Sciences at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where he heads the Computational Cognition Lab. more

A graduate of the International Max Planck Research School COMP2PSYCH, Sam completed his PhD in 2019. He was part of the research team of Prof. Ray Dolan at the Cognition and Computational Psychiatry lab at the Wellcome Centre for Human Neuroimaging in London. He is now a medical student at UCL Medical School.
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Susan Fischer, former Coordinator on the London site, left in July 2020 to join the Eberhard Karls University Tübingen / Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen as Scientific Coordinator.

Thomas FitzGerald was an honorary fellow at the London site of the Max Planck UCL Centre until 2019. He is currently Associate Professor in Psychology at the University of East Anglia, UK. more

Alexandra Hopkins was a fellow of the IMPRS COMP2PSYCH programme in London until the end of 2021. She has since then joined the Department of Psychology at Royal Holloway University of London as a postdoctoral researcher. more

A Sir Henry Dale Fellow, Laurence Hunt is a principal investigator at the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Oxford. He was previously an honorary fellow at the London site of the Max Planck UCL Centre. more

A former fellow at the London site, Mehdi is now at City University of London. more

Niels Kloosterman is an alumni of the Max Planck UCL Centre for Computational Psychiatry and Ageing Research and the Center for Lifespan Psychology at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin until August 2022. Since then he has joined the Psychology Department at the University of Lübeck as a researcher and lecturer in computational psychology. more

Ylva Köhncke belonged to the Berlin faculty of the IMPRS COMP2PSYCH programme. She left the Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, at the end of 2022 to pursue further training as a psychotherapist. We wish her well!

Julian Q. Kosciessa was a fellow of the IMPRS COMP2PSYCH programme in Berlin until 2020. This was followed by a postdoctoral position at the Center for Lifespan Psychology, while remaining a fellow of the Max Planck UCL Centre for Computational Psychiatry and Ageing Research until July 2022. He is now a postdoctoral researcher at the Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour in Nijmegen, Netherlands. more

Alisa Loosen completed her dissertation at UCL in 2023. She was a fellow of the IMPRS COMP2PSYCH programme and is now a postdoctoral research at Yale University. more

Jolanda Malamud was a fellow of the IMPRS COMP2PSYCH programme in London under the supervision of Quentin Huys and Ray Dolan. She left in 2023. more

A former honorary fellow of the London site of the Max Planck UCL Centre for Computational Psychiatry and Ageing Research, Andrei is has moved back to the Psychiatric University Hospital in Zurich. more

Kristoffer Månsson is a former fellow of the Max Planck UCL Centre for Computational Psychiatry and Ageing Research in Berlin. He was closely associated with the Lifespan Neural Dynamics Group headed by Doug Garrett. Kristoffer is an Associate Professor at Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, Sweden. more

Jessica McFadyen was a Fellow at the London site of the Max Planck UCL Centre for Computational Psychiatry and Ageing Research until 2022. She is now a cognitive scientist at Alena. more

Daniel McNamee was a fellow at the London site of the Max Planck UCL Centre, working with Ray Dolan at the Wellcome Centre for Human Neuroimaging. He left MPC London in May 2020. more

Jochen was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the London site of the Max Planck UCL Centre from 2016 until early 2020, working with Prof Ray Dolan. He has now moved back to clinical training at the Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy at the Charité Berlin. At the Charité, he is also continuing his research program, using a translational approach, combining neuropharmacology, functional neuroimaging and computational modelling to improve diagnosis and treatment of those with mental illness. In particular, his research focuses on improving an understanding of the cognitive computational mechanisms underlying antidepressant treatment. more

Michael is currently a research fellow at Prof. Ray Dolan's lab at Cognition and Computational Psychiaty, UCL. more

A former fellow of the Max Planck UCL Centre in London, Ritwik Niyogi left the Centre in Fall 2020. more

Matthew Nour was a fellow of the IMPRS COMP2PSYCH programme until Spring 2022. His dissertation investigated behavioural and neural signatures of ‘cognitive map’ representations in schizophrenia. Matthew was appointed as an NIHR Clinical Lecturer in Psychiatry at University of Oxford in June 2022. He remains an Honorary Fellow of the Max Planck UCL Centre for Computational Psychiatry and Ageing Research in London.
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Alistair was a postdoc fellow in Berlin in the Lifespan Neural Dynamics Group of Doug Garrett in 2018 until March 2020. He has now joined the Cambridge Centre for Frontotemporal Dementia and Related Disorders at the Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Cambridge. more

Andrea Reiter, formerly a fellow at the London site of the Max Planck UCL Centre, is currently a research fellow at the Chair of Lifespan Developmental Neuroscience at the Technical University Dresden. more

Max Rollwage was a fellow of the IMPRS COMP2PSYCH programme in London until September 2020. more

Evan M. Russek was a postdoctoral researcher in Quentin Huys' lab Applied Computational Psychiatry up until September 2021, before he moved to Princeton University. more

Robb Rutledge was the leader of the Decision Making and Emotion Group at the London site of the Max Planck UCL Centre. He is also a former faculty member of the IMPRS COMP2PSYCH graduate programme. Robb joined the Department of Psychology at Yale University as an Assistant Professor in Spring 2020. more

Nitzan was an Honorary Fellow at the London site of the Max Planck UCL Centre until early 2020. He is now at the Sagol School of Neuroscience, Tel Aviv, Israel. more

Medha Shekar, a former fellow of the Max Planck UCL Centre for Computational Psychiatry and Ageing Research left the London site in September 2022 to join the Rahnev Lab at Georgia Institute of Technology, USA. more

A former PhD candidate of the IMPRS COMP2PSYCH programme in London, Yuki returned to Japan in Fall 2020. more

Vasilisa Skvortsova was a fellow at the Max Planck UCL Centre for Computational Psychiatry and Ageing Research in London until early 2022. She is now a Senior Data Scientist at Dataiku in London. more

Hrvoje was a fellow at the London site of the Max Planck UCL Centre for Computational Psychiatry and Ageing Research. Since March 2020 he is a Senior Machine Learning Researcher at Prowler. more

A former honorary fellow of the Max Planck UCL Centre for Computational Psychiatry and Ageing Research, Matilde moved to Stanford University in March 2020. more

A former honorary fellow, Lucy moved to King's College London in early 2020. more

Wouter van den Bos is now an Associate Professor at the Developmental Psychology Department of the  University of Amsterdam & Director of the Connected Minds Lab, and Adjunct Research Scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development Center for Adaptive Rationality. more

Leonhard Waschke was a fellow with the Lifespan Neural Dynamics Group in Berlin since 2020. He left in March 2023 to be a consultant at the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research. more

Lennart Wittkuhn was a Fellow of the IMPRS COMP2PSYCH Programme until January 2023. He defended his dissertation in April 2023 and subsequently joined Nico Schuck at the University of Hamburg as a postdoctoral researcher and lab manager at the Institute of Psychology. He continues to be affiliated with the Max Planck UCL Centre as an Honorary Fellow.

Iris Wiegand was a fellow with the Lifespan Neural Dynamics Group in Berlin from 2016-2020. While being a fellow at the Berlin site of the Max Planck UCL Centre, Iris also spent time as a fellow at Brigham & Women's Hospital at Harvard University and a lecturer in the Department of Psychology at the University of Bielefeld. In September 2020, Iris joins the faculty of Radboud University in the Netherlands as an Assistant Professor. more