MBB Poster Prize & Young Scientist Award

MBB Poster Prize Winners

In previous years, the MBB Poster Prizes were awarded to:

Year	Name	Institution	Poster Title
2026	Ronja Brinkmann	Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, Munich, Germany	“Posterior Insula Coupling with Individual Heart Rate during Acute Stress as a Resilience Marker?”
	Stefan Weinhardt	UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway	“The Impact of Interoceptive Rhythms on Attentional States and Transitions”
	Mariana Babo-Rebelo	Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Barcelona, Spain; École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland	“A Grid-like Code of Tactile Perception”
2025	Aureen D’Souza	German Institute of Human Nutrition Potsdam-Rehbrücke, Nuthetal, Germany	“Affective responses are shaped by interoception and personality”
	Paula Guiomar Alarcón de Antón	Berlin School of Mind and Brain, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany	“Quantification of metacognition of emotion: an EEG and pupillometry study”
	Avraham Shmueli	University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel	“Interoceptive - a resilience factor in subclinical traumatic symptoms”
2024	Tahnée Engelen	Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, France	“In search of interoceptive profiles: do the heart, lungs, and stomach influence the motor cortex the same way?”
	Marie Loescher	Ecole Normale Supérieure, Université PSL, Paris, France	“Cardiac influences on multisensory integration: does self-relevance matter?”
	Daniel Kluger	University of Münster, Münster, Germany	“Respiration-locked excitability changes in health and disease”
2023	Merve Kutlu	Department of Psychology, LMU Munich, Germany	“Identifying sequential memory reactivation during sleep in humans”
	Sarah Meissner	ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland	“Through the eye to the brain: Modulating arousal via pupil-based neurofeedback”
	Jessica L. Hazelton	Brain and Mind Centre, The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia	“Investigating interoception and emotion in left- vs right-predominant anterior temporal lobe degeneration”
2022	Polina Arbuzova	Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany	“No evidence of impaired visual and tactile metacognition in adults with Tourette disorder”
	Pablo Nicolas Fernandez Larrosa	Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA)–CONICET, Buenos Aires, Argentina	“Complex decision-making could be facilitated by social modulation through priming”
	Christoph Bamberg Special Prize	The University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand	“A Meta-Analysis of the Effects of Temporary Calorie Restriction on Cognitive Performance”
	Sidney Carls-Diamante & Alice Laciny Special Prize	Universitaet Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany	“A predictive processing/active inference account of procrastination in the context of autism spectrum disorder (ASD)”
	Marika Constant Special Prize	Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany	“The Weighting of Prior Information in Confidence”
	Elenor Morgenroth Special Prize	Ecole Polytechnique Federale, Lausanne, Switzerland	“Movie-induced emotion experiences modulate dynamically-occurring amygdala-CAPs”
2021	Angeliki Charalampaki	Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, BCCN; Berlin, Germany	“Do we rely on the outcome of our movements to know how we just moved?”
	Artur Czeszumski	University of Osnabrück, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Nederlands	“Hyperscanning: A Valid Method to Study Neural Inter-brain Underpinnings of Social Interaction”
2019	Lina Skora	University of Sussex, Brighton, UK	“The effect of interoceptive feedback and interoceptive accuracy on unconscious instrumental learning”
2018	Friederike Irmen	Berlin School of Mind and Brain, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany	“Effective subthalamic stimulation restores adequate risk-reward trade-off during sequential gambling in Parkinson’s diseases“
	Monika Graumann	Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany	“The time course of object location representations in the human brain depends on clutter”
2017	Lise Hobeika	Sorbonne Universités, Paris, France	“Lateral PPS boundaries are influenced by handedness”
	Toni Muffel	Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig	“Differential effects of Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation on Position Sense in healthy young and elderly subjects“
2016	Katie Groves	University of Essex, Colchester, UK	“Investigating self vs. other body perception with the body-selective N1 component”

MBB Young Scientist Award Winners

Applicants could submit a MindBrainBody project idea that can be carried out in a period of 3 to 6 months to be considered for the MBB Young Scientist Award, which offers to winners the opportunity of a funded research stay at the MindBrainBody Institute in Berlin or at the Department of Neurology at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences. Collaborative projects with a home institution are also highly encouraged.

Previous MBB Young Scientist Awardees were:

Year	Name	Institution	Proposal
2026	Lana Porter	Ernst Strüngmann Institute for Neuroscience, Frankfurt, Germany	“Heart on the Mind: Heart Evoked Potentials During Novel Emotional Processing”
2025	Ege Kingir	University Medical Center Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany	“Neurophysiological Correlates of the 'Gut Feeling”
2024	Niket Aggarwal	Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Kanpur, India	“Exploring the interplay of brain-body interactions in cognition”
2023	Jellina Prinsen	KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium	“Menstrual cycle effects on conscious and preconscious indices of cardiac interoception”
	Aleksandra Piejka	Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw,Warsaw, Poland	“Examination of associations between loneliness, emotion regulation, stress, and physiological acitivity in daily life”
	Sofija Perovic	Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy	“Does the Vertex Potential differentially modulate cortical and thalamic activation?”
2022	Aleksandra Herman	Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology, Warsaw, Poland	“(Un)certain bodies: The role of bodily responses and their perception in decision-making under different types of uncertainty”
	Irena Arslanova	University of London, London, UK	“Cardiac feedback can both help and harm: the role of heart in fear depends on fear level”
	Shelby Bachman	University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA	“The effect of a plant-based diet on brain and cognitive aging”
2021	Tahnée Engelen	Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, France	“The role of affective state in cardiac-saccade coupling during free viewing of emotion inducing images”
	David Haslacher	Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany	“The causal role of cortical delta oscillations in interoception”
2020	Mohammad Rostami	Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran	“Investigating the brain processing procedures for different types of tactile stimulations: Why does thermal stimulation is more likely to be successfully localized for stroke patients?”
	Emma Louise Michalski	Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden	“The neural correlates of premenstrual dysphoric disorder”
	Lina Skora	University of Sussex, Brighton, UK	“The role of cardioception in shaping emotional learning: an HEP study”
2019	Alejandro Galvez-Pol	University College London, London, UK	“Examining sensory enhancement during active coupling of perception and cardiac phase”
2018	Marina Kliuchko	Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark	“Central processing of autonomic functions in noise sensitivity”
	Dorottya Lantos	Phd Student: Goldsmiths, University of London, London	“The Effects of Mindful Gratitude Meditation on Social Exclusion”
2017	Birgit Nierula	Institut d'investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer, (IDIBAPS), Barcelona, Spain	“On the neural dynamics underlying the feeling of agency”
2016	Paweł Motyka	University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland	“Modulation of somatosensory perception across the cardiac cycle”
	Pietro Sarasso	University of Turin, Turin, Italy	“Dynamics of phase synchronization during a blindsight task. EEG correlates of perceived and unperceived visual stimuli.”