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Curriculum vitae Prof. Dr. Benjamin Straube

  • Education

    2014 Habilitation, Experimental Neuroscience, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany
    2008 Dr. rer. medic., RWTH Aachen University, Germany
    2005 Diploma in Psychology, Faculty of Psychology, Saarland University, Germany
    2000 - 2001 Civil Service, Paderborn, Germany
  • Academic and professional career

    2016 - present Heisenberg-Professor of Translational Psychiatry: Perception & Action, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany
    2014 - 2016 Leader of the research group Experimental Neuroscience, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany
    2009 - 2014 Post-Doc, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany
    2008 - 2009 Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, Department of Neurology & Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Pennsylvania, USA
  • Commissions of trust

    2020-present Associate Editor: Frontiers in Human Neuroscience: Cognitive Neuroscience
    2019-present Handling Editor: Cognitive Processing
  • Fellowships, awards and third party funding

    Fellowships
    2016 - 2021 Heisenberg-Professorship from the German Research Foundation
    Awards
    2019 Hans-Heimann-award of the German Association for Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics (DGPPN) together with Dr. Florian Bitch (6000€)
    2016 Young scientist award of the German Society of Biological Psychiatry (DGBP; 2500€)
    2014 Young scientist award of the German Association for Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics (DGPPN; 5000 €)
    2014 Young scientist award of the von-Behring-Röntgen Foundation (5.000€)
    2010 “Borchers-Plakette”, RWTH Aachen
    Third party funding
    01/2024 – 01/2027 Funding by the Hessian Ministry for Science and Art (HMWK). 
    LOEWE center: “DYNAMIC
    04/2021 – 04/2025 Funding by the Hessian Ministry for Science and Art (HMWK)
    Cluster project: “The Adaptive Mind” (TAM)
    04/2018 – 09/2022 Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG). 
    IRTG 1901/2 The Brain in Action. International graduate school. 
    Speaker: Katja Fiehler & Frank Bremmer; PIs: Frank Bremmer, Dominik Endres, Katja Fiehler, Roland Fleming, Karl Gegenfurtner, Tilo Kircher, Jörn Munzert, Wolfgang Oertel, Anna Schubö, Alexander Schütz, Gudrun, Schwarzer, Benjamin Straube
    01/2022 – 12/2026 German Research Foundation (DFG). SFB / TRR 135/3 German Research Foundation (DFG). SFB / TRR 135/3 Cardinal Mechanisms of Perception: Prediction, Evaluation, Categorization (Speaker: Prof. Dr. Karl Gegenfurtner). 
    Subproject A3: Predictive perception processes: multi-sensory consequences of one’s own actions. 
    PI: Prof. Dr. Tilo Kircher and Prof. Dr. Benjamin Straube (project number: INST 162 / 445-3; sub-project A3)
    04/2020 - 04/2023 German Research Foundation (DFG): Dissecting the neurobiology of anxiety across diagnostic categories – the extension of the Marburg/Münster affective disorders cohort study (MACS) regarding anxiety disorders (DA 1151/11-1 | KI 588/22-1 | STR 1146/18-1) PIs: Udo Dannlowski, Tilo Kircher, Benjamin Straube
    04/2020 – 04/2022 Universitätsklinikum Gießen und Marburg GmbH. Kooperationsvertrag, Title: Development and neurobiological investigation of a social-cognitive intervention program to improve social dysfunction in schizophrenia. PI: Dr. Florian Bitsch, Dr. Yifei He, & Prof. Dr. Benjamin Straube.
    04/2020 – 04/2023 Funding by German Research Foundation (DFG). Title: The neural correlates of action-perception coupling in schizophrenia: Impaired recalibration and cross-modal transfer of forward model predictions (Project number: STR 1146/9-2). PI: Prof. Dr. Benjamin Straube
    09/2019 - 09/2021 German Research Foundation (DFG). Heisenberg Professorship, Translational neuroimaging: From the fundamentals of perception and action towards a better understanding of psychiatric disorders (Project number: STR 1146/15-1). PI: Prof. Dr. Benjamin Straube
    01/2018 - 12/2021 German Research Foundation (DFG). SFB/TRR 135/2 Cardinal mechanisms of perception: prediction, valuation, categorization (spokesman: Prof. Dr. Karl Gegenfurtner). Subproject A3/2: Predictive perception: multisensory consequences of one´s own actions. PI: Prof. Dr. Tilo Kircher und Prof. Dr. Benjamin Straube (Project number: INST 162/445-2 Sub project A3)
    01/2018 - 12/2018 German Research Foundation (DFG) together with FAPASP Brazil. International cooperation with Sao Paulo, Brazil. The active brain in clinical and cognitive neuroscience. PI: Dr. Jens Sommer & Prof. Dr. Benjamin Straube (STR 1146/12-1)
    03/2017 - 06/2020 German Research Foundation (DFG). Title: The neural correlates of social-communicative perception in patients with schizophrenia, major depression und bipolar disorder: Disorder specific and disorder-unspecific aspects of the comprehension, recognition and interpretation of verbal and non-verbal information (Project numbers: Ki 588/6-2; STR 1146/11-2). PI: Prof. Dr. Tilo Kircher und Prof. Dr. Benjamin Straube
    01/2017 - 01/2020 Von-Behring-Röntgen-Stiftung. Title: Neural correlates of communicative processes in patients with schizophrenia and the effect a specific speech-gesture intervention (Project number: 64-0001). PI: Prof. Dr. Benjamin Straube & Prof. Dr. Gebhard Sammer
    04/2016 - 07/2019 German Research Foundation (DFG). Heisenberg Professorship, Translational neuroimaging: From the fundamentals of perception and action towards a better understanding of psychiatric disorders (Project number: STR 1146/8-1). PI: PD Dr. Benjamin Straube
    04/2016 - 07/2019 German Research Foundation (DFG). Neural correlates of action-perception- circuits in patients with schizophrenia: impairment in perceiving the multisensory consequences of one´s own actions (Project number: STR 1146/9-1). PI: PD Dr. Benjamin Straube
    03/2015 - 03/2018 Universitätsklinikum Gießen und Marburg GmbH. Kooperationsvertrag, Title: Modulating the aberrant perception of causality in patients with schizophrenia using transcranial direct current stimulation (Project number: 25/2015 MR). PI: PD Dr. Benjamin Straube
    01/2015 - 01/2019 Else Kröner-Fresenius-Stiftung. Effects of a humour intervention on neural correlates of social cognitive skills in patients with schizophrenia – a randomized controlled fMRI study (Project number: 2014_A136). PI: Dr. Irina Falkenberg, PD Dr. Benjamin Straube, Dr. Arne Nagels
    01/2015 - 12/2016 Innovations- und Förderpool der RHÖN-KLINIKUM AG. Anschubfinanzierung: Investigation of disorder-specific differences in neural correlates of natural social communicative perception in patients with schizophrenia, depression and bipolar disorder (Project number: FI_3). PI: PD Dr. Benjamin Straube
    06/2014 - 04/2018 German Research Foundation (DFG). Neural processes of social interaction in genetic and environmental risk factors of schizophrenia. PI: Prof. Dr. Tilo Kircher (Project number: Ki 588/16-1) und PD Dr. Benjamin Straube (Project number: STR 1146/4-1)
    04/2014 - 12/2017 German Research Foundation (DFG). SFB/TRR 135 Cardinal mechanisms of perception: prediction, valuation, categorization (spokesman: Prof. Dr. Karl Gegenfurtner). Subproject A3: Predictive perception: multisensory consequences of one´s own actions. PI: Prof. Dr. Tilo Kircher und Dr. Benjamin Straube (Project number: INST 162/445-1Sub project A3)
    06/2010 - 09/2016 German Research Foundation (DFG). Title: Neural processes of natural social communicative perception in healthy subjects and patients with schizophrenia: Understanding, recognizing and interpreting verbal and non-verbal information (Project number: Ki 588/6-1). PI: Prof. Dr. Tilo Kircher und Dr. Benjamin Straube
    01/2012 - 12/2015 Von-Behring-Röntgen-Stiftung. Title: Synchronized EEG and fMRI measurement: Establishing the method to validate the disconnection hypothesis in patients with schizophrenia (Project number: 59-0002). PI: Dr. Benjamin Straube, Helge Gebhardt, Prof. Dr. Gebhard Sammer
    03/2010 - 12/2013 Universitätsklinikum Gießen und Marburg GmbH. Kooperationsvertrag, Title: The perception of physical and social causality in healthy subjects and patients with schizophrenia: The neural correlates of symptom specific dysfunctions (Project number: 10/2010 MR). PI: Dr. Benjamin Straube

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