Official position
Chair of Clinical Psychology and Behavioural Neuroscience Director of the Institute of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy [from 01 October 2020 on]
Institution
Institute of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, Faculty of Psychology, Technische Universität Dresden
Business address
Chemnitzer Str. 46
01187 Dresden
Academic education and degrees
2004 | M.Sc. in Psychology, University of Oregon, USA |
2005 | Diploma in Psychology, Technische Universität Dresden |
2008 | Dr. rer nat., University of Leipzig (summa cum laude) |
2011 | License as psychological Psychotherapist (Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy) |
2014 | Habilitation, University of Heidelberg, Germany |
Professional career
2009 - 2011 | PostDoc at the Central Institute of Mental Health, Institute of Neuropsychology and Clinical Psychology, Mannheim |
2011 - 2012 | Research staff at the University of Heidelberg, University Hospital Heidelberg, Section Experimental Psychopathology and Imaging, Heidelberg |
2012 - 2017 | Group leader "Psychopathology of the Social Brain" in the Department of Social Neuroscience, Max Planck Institute of Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig |
Since 2017 | Professor of Clinical Psychology and Behavioral Neuroscience, Technische Universität Dresden |
Since 2017 | Research associate, Max Planck Institute of Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig |
Since 2020 | Director of the Institute of Clinical Psychology an Psychotherapy, Technische Universität Dresden |
Honors, awards and positions
2006 | Werner-Straub-Prize of the Department of Psychology at Technische Universität Dresden |
2008 | Otto Hahn Medal of the Max Planck Society |
2012 | Young Investigator Award of the German Society for Psychophysiology and its Application |
2013 | „Rising Star” of the Association for Psychological Science |
2013 | Young Investigator Award of the European Brain and Behaviour Society |
2013 | Lilly Young Investigator Fellowship in Bipolar Disorder at the International Conference on Bipolar Disorder |
2015 - 2020 | Member and Speaker (2019-2020) of the Young Academy at the National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina and the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities |
2017 | Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Award of the German Research Foundation |
Since 2019 | Member of the Forum for Health Research of the Federal Ministry for Science and Education (BMBF) |
Current journal editorial positions
10 most important peer-reviewed papers (10 out of: 78, SCOPUS h-index: 25)
Schurz M, Radua J, Tholen MG, Maliske L, Margulies DS …
Kanske P. Towards a Hierarchical Model of Social Cognition: A Neuroimaging Meta-Analysis and Integrative Review on Empathy and Theory of Mind. Psychological Bulletin. in press.
Tholen MG, Trautwein FM, Böckler A, Singer T,
Kanske P. Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) item analysis of empathy and theory of mind. Human Brain Mapping. 2020;41:2611-2628.
Trautwein FM, Singer T,
Kanske P. Stimulus-driven reorienting impairs top-down control of attention: Evidence for a common bottleneck in anterior insula. Cerebral Cortex. 2016;26(11):4136-4147.
Molenberghs P, Trautwein FM, Boeckler A, Singer T,
Kanske P. Neural correlates of metacognitive ability and of feeling confident: A large scale fMRI study. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience. 2016;11(12):1942-1951.
Kanske P, Böckler A, Trautwein FM, Parianen Leseman FH, Singer T. Are strong empathizers better mentalizers? Evidence for independence and interaction between the routes of social cognition. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience. 2016;11(9):1383-1392.
Kanske P, Böckler A, Trautwein M, Singer T. Dissecting the social brain: Introducing the EmpaToM to reveal distinct neural networks and brain-behavior relations for empathy and Theory of Mind. NeuroImage. 2015;122:6-19.
Kanske P, Schönfelder S, Forneck J, Wessa M. Impaired regulation of emotion: Neural correlates of reappraisal and distraction in bipolar disorder and unaffected relatives. Translational Psychiatry. 2015;5:e497.
Kanske P, Heissler J,Schönfelder S, Forneck J, Wessa M. Neural correlates of emotional distractibility in bipolar disorder, unaffected relatives and individuals with hypomanic personality. American Journal of Psychiatry. 2013;170(12):1487-1496.
Kanske P, Heissler J, Schönfelder S, Wessa M. Neural correlates of emotion regulation deficits in remitted depression: the influence of regulation strategy, habitual regulation use, and emotional valence. Neuroimage, 2012;61(3):686-693.
Kanske P, Heissler J, Schönfelder S, Bongers A, Wessa M. How to regulate emotion? Neural networks for reappraisal and distraction. Cerebral Cortex. 2011;21(6):1379-1388.
Foto: Kerstin Flake
