Alumni

Janne Adolf was a predoctoral LIFE fellow and then postdoc in the Formal Methods project. At the end of 2017 she moved on to the KU Leuwen, Belgium. more

Caroline Beese was a postdoc with the Berlin Aging Studies before moving on to the Department of Linguistics at the University of Vienna in the summer of 2021. more

Andrew Bender was a postdoc at the Center until early 2018, working in the ConMem and the Berlin Aging Studies projects. He is now Assistant Professor at Michigan State University, East Lansing. more

Julia Binder came to the Center as a LIFE-Alumna from the University of Zurich. She was a postdoc in the ConMem project until spring 2017. Sie now works for Merck in Zurich. more

Oisin Butler completed his doctorate as a LIFE fellow within the Mechanisms and Sequential Progression of Plasticity project. In 2019, he moved on to become a Real World Evidence Outcomes Data Generation Project Leader with Bayer AG, Berlin. more

Whitney Cole was a postdoc in the former SensCog project in LIP. She returned to New York University in spring 2018. more

Lieke de Boer was a postdoc in Mechanisms and Sequential Progression of Plasticity in Children in 2020/21. She then moved on to the Netherlands eScience Center in Amsterdam. more

Marie Deserno was a postdoc in the Formal Methods in Lifespan Psychology project from autumn 2019 to 2021. In October 2021 she moved on to become Assistant Professor at the University of Amsterdam. more

Charles Driver worked with Formal Methods in Lifespan Psychology from 2014, first as a predoctoral LIFE Fellow and then as a research scientist. In early 2021 he moved on to the Institute for Educational Evaluation that is associated with the University of Zurich. more

Sandra Düzel was head of the Berlin Aging Study II (BASE-II) within the project The Berlin Aging Studies from 2012. In summer 2022 she moved on to the Charité. She continues to be active in BASE-II. more

Yana Fandakova was co-leader of the LIP project Mechanisms and Sequential Progression of Plasticity. In October 2022, she took up the professorship for Cognitive Neuropsychology and Development at Trier University. more

Julian Karch was a predoc and then postdoc in the Formal Methods project. He moved on to become Assistant Professor at Leiden University in the Netherlands in the summer of 2017. more

In 2022, Anna Karlsson completed her PhD as a LIFE fellow in the Minerva Research Group Lifespan Age Differences in Memory Representations (LIME). Since 2022, she is a postdoc working with Roberto Cabeza at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. more

Attila Keresztes was a postdoc with the former ConMem project until the end of 2018. He then returned to Budapest to establish his own research group: Hippocampus Circuit and Code for Cognition Lab (HCCCL). From 2021, HCCCL is cooperating with the Center's LIME and RHYME projects as a Max Planck Partner Group. more

Maike Kleemeyer completed her PhD as a LIFE Fellow in the former LIP project Sensorimotor-Cognitive Couplings (SensCog) and then moved on to the Formal Methods in Lifespan Psychology and Mechanisms and Sequential Progression of Plasticity projects. Since 2021, she is the Research Data Management Coordinator at the Library. more

From 2015 to 2022, Niels Kloosterman was a postdoc within the Lifespan Neural Dynamics Group, which is associated with LIP. In October 2022 he took up a position as a lecturer and research assistant at the Department of Psychology, Universität zu Lübeck, Germany. more

Malte Kobelt was a LIP guest working with the LIME and RHYME projects until spring 2020. He is now a predoc at Ruhr-Universität Bochum. more

Ylva Köhncke was a postdoc in the Formal Methods in Lifespan Psychology and Berlin Aging Studies projects from 2017 to 2023. She is now in training to become a psychotherapist. more

Julian Kosciessa is an alumnus of the IMPRS Comp2Psych, Max Planck UCL Center for Computational Psychiatry and Aging. He completed his PhD in 2020 at the Lifespan Neural Dynamics Group (LNDG) und was a postdoc there before moving on to the Donders Centre for Cognition, Radboud University, Nijmegen, Netherlands. more

Simone Kühn was head of LIP's Mechanisms and Sequential Progression of Plasticity project until early 2017. Sie became Professor of Neural Plasticity at the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE). In 2019, she established the Lise Meitner Group for Environmental Neuroscience at MPIB. more

Corinna Laube was a postdoc in the Mechanisms and Sequential Progression of Plasticity project until spring 2020. She is now Dean of Psychology at Hochschule Fresenius University of Applied Sciences. more

Ziyong Lin was a LIFE fellow at the University of MIchigan before she joined the LIP project Mechanisms and Sequential Progression of Plasticity as a postdoc. In June 2021, she moved on to work with Amazon in Berlin as a behavioral scientist. more

Kristoffer Månsson was a postdoc working in the Lifespan Neural Dynamics Group until mid-2021. He has now taken up an assistant professorship at Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm. more

Beate Mühlroth was a predoc and then postdoc with the ConMem project working on sleep. Since 2020 she is working for the Federal Chamber of Psychotherapists in Berlin. more

Alistair Perry was a postdoc in the Lifespan Neural Dynamics Group. He moved on to the University of Cambridge, UK in spring 2020. more

Sarah Polk was a LIFE fellow and completed her PhD and her postdoc within the Mechanisms and Sequential Progression of Plasticity project. In 2023, she took up a position at the DZNE, Magdeburg.

Laurel Raffington completed her doctorate within the ConMem project and und was also involved in Yee Lee Shing's Jacobs Study as a postdoc. She was a postdoc at the University of Texas at Austin from 2019 to 2021. In 2022, she returned to the MPIB as Leader of the Max Planck Research Group Biosocial. more

Verena Sommer completed her PhD as a LIFE fellow in Myriam Sander's Minerva Group in 2020. She was a postdoc in the LIME project until 2021. She is now working as a data scientist for a consultancy in Berlin advising cities, companies, etc. on becoming fossil-free and climate-neutral. more

Caroline Szymanski completed her doctorate and continued as a postdoc in the Interactive Brains, Social Minds project until summer 2018. She is now working at the Hasso-Plattner-Institut in Potsdam and is co-founder of Kandooee. more

Julius Verrel headed the concluded SensCog project. He has been a research scientist at Universität zu Lübeck in Germany since spring 2017. more

Leo Waschke was a postdoc within the Lifespan Neural Dynamics Group from 2020 until 2023. He took up a position as a policy officer at the Federal Ministry of Education and Research, Berlin. more

Claudia Wehrspaun was a postdoc in Myriam Sander's Minerva Group, the LIME project, until early 2020. She is now a psychotherapist in Munich. more

Elisabeth Wenger completed her PhD as a LIFE fellow, then became a postdoc, and finally co-leader of the LIP project Mechanisms and Sequential Progression of Plasticity from 2016. In May 2023 she took up the professorship for Developmental Psychology at HMU Health and Medical University in Potsdam. more