Alumni

Sowmya Narayan, PhD
IMPRS-TP PhD Alumna graduated 2025MMRS LMU
PhD Medical Research on "Sex-specific outcomes of developmental stress and psilocybin intervention on the brain and behavior" supervised by Elisabeth Binder and Mathias Schmidt.

Dr. med. Ömer Faruk Öztürk, PhD
IMPRS-TP PhD Alumnus graduated 2024 (Residency Program)MMRS LMU
PhD Medical Research on "Phenotypical exploration and predictive utility of formal thought disorder in individuals with recent-onset of psychosis" supervised by Nikolaos Koutsouleris

Dr. rer. nat. Helena Pelin
IMPRS-TP PhD Alumna graduated 2022Experimental Medicine, TUM School of Medicine
Research on "Subtyping psychiatric disorders using unsupervised learning methods" supervised by Bertram Müller-Myhsok

Fabrizia Pipicelli, PhD
IMPRS-TP PhD Alumna graduated 2023MMRS LMU
PhD Medical Research on "Non-cell autonomous mechanisms in neurodevelopment and neurological disorders" supervised by Silvia Cappello

Dr. med. David Popovic, PhD
IMPRS-TP PhD Alumnus graduated 2022 (Residency Program)MMRS LMU & Hospital Department of Psychiatry
PhD Medical Research on "Investigation Of Childhood Trauma As A Transdiagnostic Risk Factor Using Multimodal Machine Learning" supervised by Nikolaos Koutsouleris
Dorothee Pöhlchen, PhD
IMPRS-TP PhD Alumna graduated 2023MMRS LMU
PhD Medical Research on "Neuroimaging and psychophysiological markers of fear-related disorders" supervised by Elisabeth Binder

Dr. med. Florian Raabe, PhD
IMPRS-TP PhD Alumnus graduated 2023 (Residency Program)MMRS LMU & Hospital Department of Psychiatry
PhD Medical Research on "Paving the way to investigate white matter pathology in schizophrenia with hiPSC-derived models" supervised by Moritz Rossner

Stephanie Rek, PhD
IMPRS-TP PhD Alumna graduated 2022MMRS LMU
PhD Medical Research on "Delineating the Psychosocial Impact of the Coronavirus Pandemic" supervised by Frank Padberg
Clemens Ries, PhD
IMPRS-TP PhD Alumnus graduated 2024Graduate School of Systemic Neuroscience, LMU
PhD Medical Research on "The Role of the CRH/CRHR1 System in Glial Cells following Acute Brain Injury" supervised by Jan Deussing

Nicolas Rost, PhD
IMPRS-TP PhD Alumnus graduated 2023MMRS LMU
PhD Medical Research on "Using Machine Learning to Predict Treatment Outcome in Depression – Hype or Hope?" supervised by Elisabeth Binder

Dr. rer. nat. Julia Ruat
IMPRS-TP PhD Alumna graduated 2022Faculty of Biology, LMU
Research on "Dissecting the neuronal basis of threat responding in mice" supervised by Alon Chen and Carsten Wotjak

Dr. rer. nat Christine Rummel
IMPRS-TP PhD Alumna graduated 2023Research on "Functional annotation of cell type and condition specific schizophrenia associated non-coding genetic variants in disease relevant cell types"

Aldo Soldini, MD, PhD
IMPRS-TP Alumnus, graduated 2024MMRS LMU
PhD Medical Research on "Transcranial direct-current stimulation of the prefrontal cortex, a multilevel analysis of data from a clinical trial in depression" supervised by Frank Padberg

Fabian Stamp, PhD
IMPRS-TP PhD Alumnus graduated 2022PhD Medical Research on "WTAP and YTHDC1: non-redundant regulators of adult brain functioning" supervised by Alon Chen and Elisabeth Binder

Dr. rer. nat. Marius Stephan
IMPRS-TP PhD Alumnus graduated 2023MMRS LMU, Molecular and Behavioural Neurobiology, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, LMU Klinikum
Research on "PsyCoP – a novel platform for deep behavioral phenotyping and its use for the characterization of high validity psychiatric mouse models" supervised by Moritz Rossner

Dr. rer. nat. Lotte van Doeselaar
IMPRS-TP PhD Alumna graduated 2023Faculty of Biology, LMU
Research on "FKBP51 in a dynamic environment: How FKBP51 shapes stress resilience in a sex- and cell type-specific manner" supervised by PD. Dr. Mathias Schmidt

Natan Yusupov
IMPRS-TP Alumnus graduated 2025 (Residency Program)MMRS LMU
PhD medical research on "Stress-related tissue-specific regulation of DNA methylation in non-coding elements of FKBP5 in brain and blood of mice, humanized mice and humans" supervised by Elisabeth Binder

Imme Christina Zillekens, PhD
IMPRS-TP PhD Alumna graduated 2020PhD Medical Research on "Social cognition and behavioral responses in kinematic interactions -neuroscientific evidence from a third-and second-person perspective" supervised by Leonhard Schilbach