Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences

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Professor Dr. Julia Sacher

Group leader (in cooperation with Leipzig University)

Department of Neurology
Former Minerva Research Group EGG (Emotions & neuroimaGinG)-Laboratory
+49 341 9940-2409

Publication References

Main Focus

Projects

The menstrual rhythm of the brain.
Serotonin modulated neuroplasticity.
A perimenopausal vulnerability model of depression.

Funding

As principal Investigator in total ~ EUR 800.000

2016 - 2018	Brain and Behavior Research Foundation: National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression (NARSAD) Young Investigator Award, USA (US 70.000, operating funds).
2012 – 2017	Branco Weiss Fellowship, Society in Science (SF 200.000 + SF 300.000).
2010 – 2011	Humboldt Research Fellowship, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Bonn (EUR 73.000).
2008 – 2010	National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression (NARSAD) Young Investigator Award, USA (US 60.000, operating funds).
2008 – 2010	Canadian Institutes for Health & Research (CIHR) Fellowship Award (CAD 135.000 incl operating funds).
2007	CAMH Fellowship Award, Canada (CAD 40.000), deferred due to accepting CIHR Fellowship.
2007 – 2008	Erwin Schroedinger Postdoctoral Fellowship Award (CAD: 82.000).
2003	Scholarship Medical University Vienna.
2002	Scholarship Hans Blanca Moser Scholarship.

Curriculum Vitae

Academic Education
2016	PD (Habilitation) Medical Faculty, University of Leipzig, Germany.
2014	Clinical Board Certification as Psychiatrist & Psychotherapist
2011 - 2014	Residency Psychiatry & Psychotherapy Clinic for Cognitive Neurology, University Clinic Leipzig, Germany.
2007 - 2009	Clinical Fellowship Psychiatry & Psychotherapy Clinic for Mood Disorders, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, University of Toronto, Canada.
2004 - 2006	Residency Psychiatry & Psychotherapy Department of General Psychiatry & Clinical Pharmacology, Medical University Vienna, Austria.
2003 - 2007	PhD Neuroimaging & Cellular Transduction, Medical University Vienna, Austria.
1996 - 2003	MD, Medical University of Vienna, Austria.

Career
2015	MPG Minerva Forschungsgruppenleiterin EGG Lab Max Planck Institut für Kognitions- und Neurowissenschaften, Leipzig.
2012 - 2014	Group Leader Society in Science Branco Weiss Fellowship Group Clinic for Cogntive Neurology & Department of Neurology Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences & University Clinic Leipzig.
07/09 - 12/11	Humboldt Fellow & Young Investigator Department of Neurology, Prof. Arno Villringer Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig.
2006 - 2009	Postdoctoral Fellowship in Neuroimaging, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH), University of Toronto, Canada. Supervision Prof. Jeffrey H Meyer, Neurochemical Imaging Progra in Mood Disorders, PET Centre, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, University of Toronto, Canada.

Awards
2016	Selected for Max Planck Society's "Sign Up!" Careerbuilding program
2016	National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression (NARSAD) Young Investigator Award, Brain and Behavior Research Foundation, USA
2012	Travel Award to attend annual ACNP meeting by invitiation from 2012-2017, American Colle of Neuropsychpharmacology (ACNP) (2012)
2012	Fellowship Award, European College of Neuropsychopharmacology (ECNP) (2012)
2012	ECNP Travel Award (deferred due to accepting ECNP Fellowship Award), European College of Neuropsychopharmacology (ECNP) (2012)
2009	Travel Award, Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, Canada (2009)
2009	Postdoctoral Research Fellowship Award, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Germany (2009)
2008	Young Investigator Award, National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression (NARSAD), USA (2008)
2007	Fellowship Award, Canadian Institutes for Health and Research (CIHR), Canada. (2007)

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