Listed are current staff members. Refer HERE for alumni and former lab members as well as past students.

[please note: site get's updated regularly]

Investigators

Principal Investigator

Prof. Dr. Julian Koenig

Julian is Professor of Biological Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the University of Cologne and PI of the lab. 

ResearchGate | Google Scholar | CV | learn more

Physician-Scientist

Dr. Anna Markser

Anna is a physician-scientist with specialized training in psychosomatic medicine. Her clinical and research interests fall within the areas of neurobiological correlates of stress and emotion and interactions of the ANS, immune system and endocrinological factors with psychological symptoms across development.

ResearchGate | CV | learn more

Staff

Biologist / Neuroscientist

Dr. Caroline Zeitouny

Caroline is a biologist, developing an animal model of vagus nerve stimulation and conducting several research projects on vagal function in rodent models. ResearchGate

Psychologist

Dr. Maximilian Schmaußer

Max is a psychologist and researcher at the lab. He is interested in how peripheral physiological signals and their perception influence cognitive and affective processes in both health and disease. ResearchGate

PhD Student

Dr. phil. cand. Luise Baumeister-Lingens

Luise is a psychologist and PhD student at the lab. She conducts studies on heart rate variability in children and adolescents with depression. ResearchGate

Research Assistants

Lena Wolff

Senior Student Research Assistant

Roxana Rothe

Senior Student Research Assistant

Daryna Apter

Senior Student Research Assistant

Milena Geist

Senior Student Research Assistant

Sonja Schulte

Student Research Assistant

 Jessica Mueser

Student Research Assistant

Tobias Sodenkamp

Student Research Assistant/MTA

Current MD Students

If you are interested to write your MD thesis (Dr. med. or Dr. med. dent.) with us, please get into contact.

Marc Ferger

Endocannabinoid system in adolescent non-suicidal self-injury (Supervisor: Julian Koenig)

Carina Pütz

Normative Thymus Development in Childhood and Adolescence (Supervisor: Julian Koenig)

Franziska Klein

Umbrella-Review on Treatment. Non-Response in Youth Depression (Supervisor: Julian Koenig)

Jessica Rath

Cholinergic Metabolism in Adolescent Depression (Supervisor: Julian Koenig)

Jakob Siegel

Normative Development of Pineal Gland Volume in Adolescence Development (Supervisor: Julian Koenig)

Lea Freiin Von Wintzingerode

Bladder Wall Thickness and Clinical Trajectories in Patients with Enuresis/Enkopresis (Supervisor: Julian Koenig)

Hanna Schwinde

Interoception in Adolescent Borderline Personality Disorder (Supervisor: Julian Koenig)

Josefine Pechan

Cavum Septum Pellucidum in Children and Adolescents with Early-Onset Psychosis (Supervisor: Julian Koenig)

Annika Kirch

Lymphocyte Composition in Adolescent Depression (Supervisor: Julian Koenig)

 Jessica Mueser

In-vivo microneurography of the human vagus nerve (Supervisor: Julian Koenig) - in tandem with Sonja Schulte

Sonja Schulte

In-vivo microneurography of the human vagus nerve (Supervisor: Julian Koenig) - in tandem with Jessica Mueser

Associated PhD Students

If you are interested to write your PhD-Thesis with us, please get into contact.

Lea Krumpholtz

PhD in Psychology [University of Dresden]

Early Interactional Experiences as a Risk Factor of Child Development and the Transmission of Parental Psychopathology: The Potential of Integrating Biobehavioral Measures (Co-Supervisor: Julian Koenig)

Leon D. Lotter

Clinician Scientist PhD-program, Max Planck School of Cognition [Jülich Research Centre]

Biological mechanisms underlying human typical and atypical cortex development (Co-Supervisor: Julian Koenig) website

Current Master Students

If you are interested to write your Master-Thesis with us, please get into contact.

Current Bachelor Students

If you are interested to write your Bachelor-Thesis with us, please get into contact.

last update 2024 09 23

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