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Curriculum vitae Prof. Dr. Dipl.-Psych. Markus Wöhr

  • Education

    2008 Dr. rer. nat., Faculty of Psychology, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany
    2006 Diploma in Psychology, Faculty of Psychology, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany

  • Academic and professional Career

    2021 - present Professor for Biological Psychology and Behavioral Pharmacology and Head of the Social and Affective Neuroscience Research Group, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, KU Leuven, Belgium
    2020 - 2021 Associate Professor for Comparative and Integrative Animal Physiology and Head of the Laboratory for Behavioral Neuroscience, Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Syddansk Universitet, Denmark
    2018 - 2020 Visiting Associate Professor, Department of Molecular and Cellular Physiology (Prof. Dr. Südhof), School of Medicine, Stanford University, USA
    2017 - present Young Investigator Group Leader, Experimental and Biological Psychology, Faculty of Psychology, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany
    2009 - 2017 Scientific Employee, Faculty of Psychology, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany
    2008 - 2009 Post-Doctoral Visiting Fellow, Laboratory of Behavioral Neuroscience (Prof. Dr. Crawley), National Institute of Mental Health, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, USA
    2006 - 2008 Doctoral Student, Faculty of Psychology, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany

  • Institutional responsibilities

    2016 - 2018 Member of the Faculty Council, Faculty of Psychology, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany
    2011 - present Library Representative, Faculty of Psychology, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany

  • Commissions of trust

    2019 - present European Councilor, International Behavioral Neursocience Society
    2017 - present Associate Editor, Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience
    2016 - present Member of the Education and Training Committee, International Behavioral Neuroscience Society

  • Fellowships, awards and third party funding

    2018 - 2020 Feodor Lynen Research Fellowship for Experienced Researchers, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Bonn, Germany
    2018 - present Research Grant: “Gene x environment interactions on brain and behaviour in the Cacna1c genetic rat model: Calcium signalling, microRNAs, and immune activation” (WP2 of the Research Unit FOR2107 “Neurobiology of affective disorders: A translational perspective on brain structure and function”, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, Bonn, Germany.
    2017 - present Research Grant: “Expectation maintenance vs. change in animal models: Serotonin – orchestrating associative learning and neuronal plasticity processes” (WP14 of the Research Training Group GRK2271 “Expectation maintenance vs. change in the context of expectation violations: Connecting different approaches”, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, Bonn, Germany
    2014 - 2017 Research Grant: “Environmental risk and protective factors in genetic rodent models of affective disorders” (WP2 of the Research Unit FOR2107 “Neurobiology of affective disorders: A translational perspective on brain structure and function”, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, Bonn, Germany.
    2011 - 2015 Research Grant: “Genetic underpinnings of social behavior and communication: an autism-like phenotype in Shank1-KO-mice?”, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, Bonn, Germany.
    2008 - 2009 Fellowship, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, USA.
    2002 - 2006 Scholarship, Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, Berlin, Germany

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