Grants

Our research is supported by national and international funding agencies. The following overview lists ongoing and completed grants that enable our work on hemispheric specialization, cognitive processing, and advanced neuroimaging methods.

PeriodProjectRoleFunding
2024–2028SFB/TRR 393: INF – Information Infrastructure ProjectPIDFG
2024–2028SFB/TRR 393: Emotion perception, regulation variability & flexibility in affective disordersPIDFG
2025–2028GRK 2700: Neurobiology of the vowel spaceCo-PIDFG
2024–2026Neural mechanisms of mental rotation in trauma-related disordersPICampus Fulda Research Fund
2022–2024Top-down mechanisms of illusory face detectionCo-PIUniversity Hospital Marburg/Gießen
2020Major Research Instrumentation Programme: Acquisition of a new MRI scanner, University MarburgCoordinatorDFG / State of Hesse
2020–2022Bayesian Brain: Transdiagnostic modeling of schizophrenia & ASDPIResearch Campus Mittelhessen
2020–2022Diagnostic markers of ASD (DIMASS)Co-PIResearch Campus Mittelhessen
2019–2022Ontogenetic development of neural networks for face & emotion processing in children & adolescentsPIUniversity Hospital Marburg/Gießen
2019–2022Core Facility 7T small animal MRI: Methods for psychiatric disease modelsCo-PIUniversity Hospital Marburg/Gießen
2019–2021BMBF-Bipolife: Imaging and neurophysiology platformPIBMBF
2018–2022Atypical perception in ASD: model-based analysis of fMRI & MR spectroscopy dataPIDFG
2018–2022Mechanisms of hemispheric dominance in face-processing networksPIDFG
2018–2021FOR2107: Transdiagnostic multimodal biotype identification and methodological supportPIDFG
2018–2020Autism Profile: Identification of individual symptom profiles and biomarkersCo-PIvon Behring-Röntgen Foundation
2016–2019Impact of alexithymia on development of mental disordersPIvon Behring-Röntgen Foundation
2015–2019BMBF-Bipolife: Imaging and neurophysiology platform, BIPOLIFE consortiumPIBMBF
2017–2018BMBF-Bipolife: IT hardware acquisition for BIPOLIFE consortiumPIBMBF
2017–2018BMBF-Ping: R&D within Psychiatric Imaging Network GermanyPIBMBF
2015–2016SFB/TRR 135: Neural correlates of emotion categorization: Development of network modelsPIDFG
2015–2016Neural correlates of autism spectrum disorders for individualized therapyPIRhön Clinic Innovation Fund
2015–2016Frontal dysfunction in juvenile myoclonic epilepsyCo-PIRhön Clinic Innovation Fund
2015–2016Neurobiological mechanisms of antidepressant effects of rTMSCo-PIRhön Clinic Innovation Fund
2014–2017FOR2107: Methodological aspects of longitudinal imaging genetics MRI studiesPIDFG
2013–2016Dysconnectivity hypothesis of schizophrenia: fMRI retest reliabilityPIElse-Kröner-Fresenius-Foundation
2013–2015Ultra-early relapse detection in schizophrenia using EMA & dynamic systemsCo-PIUniversity Hospital Marburg/Gießen
2012–2015Emotion regulation & neural correlates in transition to psychosisCo-PIDFG
2012–2014Effects of meditation on functional & structural connectivity (fMRI + DTI)PIvon Behring-Röntgen Foundation
2011–2014Functional & structural connectivity in schizophreniaCo-PIDFG
2010–2012Neural correlates of human-robot communicationCo-PIDFG
2010–2012Systematic QA for multicenter MRI studies: phantom & measurement protocolCo-PIvon Behring-Röntgen Foundation
2009–2012Panic-Net: Improving treatment of panic disorder: fear circuits to therapyCo-PIBMBF
2009Major Research Instrumentation Programme: Acquisition of a new MRI scanner, University MarburgCo-PIDFG, State Hesse
2009–2011Structural imaging: Theory of Mind & conflict behaviorPILOEWE Initiative Hessen
2009–2011Investigation of hemispheric dominance in a connectivity modelPIUniversity Hospital Marburg/Gießen
2008–2011Brain – Concept – Writing: integral writing research RWTH AachenPIHumTec Aachen
2006–2008Interaction of language & memory in subjects with atypical language dominancePIIMF Münster
2005–2008Dopaminergic enhancement of learning, memory & recoveryCo-PIBMBF