Junior Groups
CBBS Junior Groups
In order to attract outstanding young researchers to Magdeburg as a centre for neuroscience research and thereby further enhance its international profile, the CBBS supports small research groups and junior professorships.
Outstanding postdoctoral researchers are eligible to apply for this scheme. This is intended to enable them, as project leaders, to acquire the qualifications required for a leadership role in academia by establishing and leading a research group.
Leading junior research groups is a career path that the CBBS is increasingly offering to create attractive positions between a PhD and a tenured professorship.
Would you like to receive funding from the CBBS? We’d be delighted. The CBBS regularly announces funding opportunities; please apply via our funding calls.
The candidates supported by the CBBS to date are:
CBBS Research Group Cognitive Neuroscience
We are using a variety of approaches to investigate human decision-making behaviour and the effect of dopamine-replacement drugs on this important cognitive system. In this context, I have secured a Heisenberg Professorship from the DFG as well as an ERC Consolidator Grant worth several million euros.
CBBS Research Group Psychological Methodology
Projectleader: Michael Hanke
We are creating a platform for the re-analysis of functional magnetic resonance imaging data collected and published in research projects, which minimises the technical and methodological requirements for its users.
CBBS Research Group Clinical Developmental Psychology
Projectleader: Claudia Preuschhof
We are investigating how the interplay between different learning processes and memory contents, as well as their neural correlates, changes over the course of a lifetime, and how learning processes are modulated by motivation and attention.
CBBS Research Group Neurocognitive Development
Projectleader: Nicole Wetzel
We are investigating how attention, perception and memory, as well as the underlying neural mechanisms, develop during childhood. Through my research, I have secured a grant in the Leibniz ‘Beste Köpfe’ competition – a programme for female professors – a grant similar to the DFG’s Heisenberg Professorship, and I plan to use this to establish a permanent position at Magdeburg-Stendal University of Applied Sciences.
CBBS Research Group Neural Circuits & Network Dynamics
Projectleader: Janelle Pakan
In cases of neurodegenerative dementia, we are investigating cell-type-specific microcircuits in the cerebral cortex, as well as the functional circuits underlying the processes of sensory perception and attention.
CBBS Research Group Molecular and Systemic Neuropharmacology
Projectleader: Ralf Stumm
We are investigating how peptidergic systems, as mediators of neuronal plasticity, influence the formation of new nerve cells in the brain. Our research has focused on opioid, somatostatin and chemokine receptors and their role in neurogenesis in the hippocampus of the mouse.