MPI CBS
Dr. Laurenz Lammer
Main Focus
- I am interested in the application of concepts from social epidemiology to the study of neurological diseases.
- My research focuses on social isolation as a potentially modifiable risk factor for cognitive decline and dementia.
- I am intrigued by the challenges and opportunities of the use of Bayesian statistics for Neuroscience and Epidemiology.
- Moreover, I am interested in the practical implementation of concepts from philosophy of science and medicine to improve research practices.
- Current projects:
- Discerning appropriate public health strategies for tackling loneliness and social isolation to protect mental and cognitive health using GAMMs (generalized additive mixed models)
- Implementing a structured assessment of loneliness and social isolation in the Day Clinic for Cognitive Neurology at the
Curriculum Vitae
- 2025 - PhD candidate in the Max Planck School of Cognition, clinician scientist programme
- 2025 guest researcher at Dept. of Psychiatry, University of Oxford
- 2020-2025 doctoral student (Dr. med.) at Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences
- 2019-2022 Studies in Philosophy at University of Leipzig
- 2017-2025 scholarship-holder of the German Academic Scholarship Foundation
- 2017-2024 medical student at University of Leipzig & MedUni Wien