Dr. Julia Sacher is a professor of Cognitive Neuroendocrinology with the Medical Faculty of the University Clinic of Leipzig and the Max Planck Institute for Human Brain Sciences. She is also the director of the Leipzig Center of Female Health & Gender Medicine, and a faculty member of the Max Planck School of Cognition (https://cognition.maxplanckschools.org/en), the International Max Planck Research School of Cognitive Neuroimaging, and the Berlin School of Mind & Brain.
Dr. Sacher is a psychiatrist and a neuroscientist by training. Her MD-degree and her PhD in neuroscience (Medical University Vienna, Austria) were followed by a postdoctoral clinical and research fellowship at the Centre for Addiction & Mental Health (CAMH), University of Toronto, research stays at University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University (funded by the NIH), and CDI (Career Development Institute for Mental Health Research) training at the University of Pittsburgh and Stanford University, funded by the NIH. Dr. Sacher is a distinguished university scholar and has held several prestigious Awards and Fellowships, such as the Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship, the Brain and Behavior Young Investigator Award (2x), the CINP Rafaelsen Award, and the Branco Weiss Fellowship at the Society in Science (ETH, Zurich). She is a full member of the American College of Neuropsychopharmaoclogy (ACNP) and serves on advisory boards, editorial boards, and peer review panels internationally and nationally, including CAMH’s Womenmind Seed Funding Competition. Dr. Sacher drives initiatives in women's health research by advocating precision-imaging for hormonal transitions like the menstrual cycle, pregnancy, and menopause, and encourages the integration of sex and gender-based analyses in neuroscience to uplift mental health for both women and men.