Team
Jan Haaker, PhD
Principle Investigator
I am trained as a pharmacist and obtained my PhD in pharmacological neuroscience at the University of Hamburg (Dept of Chemistry) and University Medical Center (Dept. of Systems Neuroscience). My PhD-project focused on dopaminergic processes in extinction of fear in humans.
A DFG research stipend enabled me to investigate neuropharmacological processes in social fear learning in Andreas Olssons` Lab at the Karolinska Institute, Stockholm.
In 2016 I started my own research group „Systems Neuropharmacology of aversive learning„ at the Department of Systems Neuroscience at the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf.
From 2016-2021 I worked as a PI in the Collaborative Research Grant (SFB TRR 58): „Fear, Anxiety, Anxiety Disorders“, in a neuropharmacological project to enhance Fear Extinction.
Since 2021, I am PI in the Research Training Group (Graduiertenkolleg 2753) " Emotional Leanring & Memory"
I am Alumi of the Young National Academy of Science, ("Junge Akademie"), which provides an excellent, interdisciplinary forum to connect with science and society.
Madeleine Müller, M.Sc.
PhD Student
I joined the team in April 2019 as a PhD student to work on the effect of nicotine on fear learning.
Before, I studied Biology and Cognitive and Integrative Systems Neuroscience at the Philipps-University in Marburg. For my Master Thesis project I worked on the applicability of an fMRI based fear conditioning and extinction paradigm for the use in EEG investigations in the translational neuroimaging lab of Prof. Dr. Benjamin Straube.
Leonie Rumpf, M.Sc.
PhD Student
I joined the lab in summer 2022 to work on a project investigating the noradrenaline- and opioid system in emotional memory consolidation as part of the RTG 2753.
Before, I did my Bachelor's in Psychology and Neuroscience and completed my Master's in Neuropsychology both at Maastricht University. During an internship, I got introduced to research with psychiatric patients using fMRI. For my Master's thesis I then studied the neural correlates of interoception and related self-disturbance in Borderline Personality Disorder. Thereby, I realised that I would like to continue working with neuroimaging techniques and improve my skills related to that. Throughout my studies, however, I have always been most curious about neuropharmacology to study neurobiological underpinnings of emotion and behavior. Thus, now I am more than happy to combine those methods in my PhD.
Simon Knobloch, Physician
Study Physician
I joined the team in May 2023 as a study physician in a study on the influence of morphine and propranolol on aversive learning.
Before, I studied Medicine in Aachen and started my residency in psychiatry at the Medical Center Hamburg Eppendorf. For my dissertation project I studied the neural basis of emotion perception and sharing deficits in schizophrenia in the neuropsychology working group of Prof. Ute Habel.
Marian Boor, B.A.
Intern
Jannis Petalas, BA
Student Assistant
Alumni
Saregül Subasi, Student Assistant
Franziska Leimeister (Trainee Psychology)
Stefanie Böckmann (Trainee Pharmacy)
Merlin Litke (Student Assistant)
Tahmine Fadai, MD (Study Physician)
Florian Ganzer (Study Physician)
Roland Esser, PhD (post-doc)
Adriane Höhfeld (Trainee Pharmacy, PJ)
Jonas Rauh, MD (Study Physician)
Smilla Weisser (Student Assistant)