Frauke Nees

Frauke Nees is Director of the Institute of Medical Psychology and Medical Sociology, University Medical Center Schleswig-Holstein and Professor for Medical Psychology and Behavioral Neurobiology, Kiel University. She did her PhD (Dr. rer. nat.) at the University of Trier (fellowships from the Nikolaus-Koch-foundation and a German Research Foundation funded International Research Training Group program, 2005-2008), was then Research Group Head, Deputy Professor and Permanent Deputy of the Scientific Director of the Institute of Cognitive and Clinical Neuroscience at the Central Institute of Mental Health Mannheim, Medical Faculty Mannheim, Heidelberg University (2008-2020, 2018-2020 with a Heisenberg fellowship, funded by the German Research Foundation), and PostDoc and clinical scientist at the Medical University Vienna (2015-2016) and the Clinic of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychotherapy at the Central Institute of Mental Health Mannheim (2016-2017).