Heidelberg University Hospital

Jun.-Prof. Dr. phil. Christoph Korn

General

Medical/Professional background

2007 – 2009

Dual Masters in Brain and Mind Sciences, 1 year at University College London, 1 year at Ecole Normale Supérieure and Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris (with distinction)

2004 – 2006

Bachelor of Science in Biomedicine, University of Würzburg (with distinction)

Scientific background

2020

W1-Tenure Track Professor for Social Neuroscience, Department of General Psychiatry, Heidelberg University Hospital

2018

Principal investigator Emmy-Noether research group “Human cooperation: A multimodal approach,” Institute for Systems Neuroscience, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf

2016 – 2017

Research stays (total duration of 2 months) at Harvard University

2016 – 2018

Postdoc, Institute for Systems Neuroscience, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf (within the Transregional Collaborative Research Centre SFB TRR 169 Crossmodal Learning)

2013 – 2016

Postdoc, Zurich University Hospital for Psychiatry, University of Zurich, Switzerland

2009 – 2013

Dr. phil. in Psychology, Freie Universität Berlin (summa cum laude; scholarship by Berlin School of Mind and Brain)

Professional memberships

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Psychiatrie, Psychotherapie und Nervenheilkunde (DGPPN), Deutsche Gesellschaft für Psychologie (DGPs), Society for Neuroscience (SfN), Society for NeuroEconomics (SNE)