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Prof. Gerhard Jocham was born in 1975 in Wangen, Baden-Württemberg. From 1996 to 2002, he studied psychology at the University of Konstanz and at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf. In Düsseldorf, he also earned his doctorate in 2007 at the Institute of Physiological Psychology. After completing his doctorate, he worked as a postdoctoral researcher, first until 2010 at the Max Planck Institute for Neurological Research in Cologne, then until 2013 at the University of Oxford at the Centre for Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Brain (FMRIB). Since 2013, he has led an independent research group at the Center for Behavioral Brain Sciences at Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg, where he completed his habilitation in 2015. In October 2018, he began his teaching and research activities at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf as a professor of the Biological Psychology of Decision Making. The research focus of his working group is on the neural and computational mechanisms of (reward-based) learning and decision-making.