LEONHARD SCHILBACH - Institute for Cognitive Systems

Priv.-Doz. Dr. med.
LEONHARD SCHILBACH
Curriculum vitae
Work address
Max-Planck-Institut für Psychiatrie &
Klinik für Psychiatrie,
Psychotherapie, Psychosomatik und
Neurologie
Zentrum für Nervenheilkunde
Kraepelinstrasse 2-10
D-80804 Munich
Email
[email protected]
url www.leonhardschilbach.de
Date of birth
January 19th, 1979
Place of birth
Bremen, Germany
Nationality
German
Marital status
Married since August 24th, 2007 to Katharina.
Children
One son.
Current positions
Consultant psychiatrist, Head of Clinic for Disorders of Social Interaction, MaxPlanck research group leader.
Lecturer in Experimental Psychiatry/Social Neuroscience, Department of Psychiatry,
University Hospital Cologne.
Associate Editor, Frontiers in Human Neuroscience.
Degrees and positions
Consultant psychiatrist, Head of Clinic for Disorders of Social Interaction & Research
group leader (independent research group ‚Social Neuroscience‘), Max-PlanckInstitute of Psychiatry, Munich (since 03/2015).
Consultant psychiatrist (Oberarzt), Department of Psychiatry, University Hospital
Cologne (11/2014-02/2015).
Board certification (Facharztanerkennung; since 03/2014).
Teaching coordinator (Kompetenzfeldmanager „Depression“; since October 2013).
External tutor, PhD program in Neuroscience, University of Turin, Italy (since
05/2013).
Associate Editor, Frontiers in Human Neuroscience (since 04/2013).
Lecturer (Privatdozent) in Experimental Psychiatry/Social Neuroscience, Department
of Psychiatry, University Hospital Cologne (since 04/2013).
Habilitation, Medical Faculty, University of Cologne (Experimental Psychiatry;
10/2012).
Research associate (Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter), Max-Planck-Institute for
Neurological Research, Cologne, Germany (01/2011-03/2013).
Research group leader/Principle investigator of interdisciplinary project funded by
Volkswagen Foundation, Center for Neurology and Psychiatry, Department of
Psychiatry, University of Cologne, Germany (10/2010-12/2014).
Physician at Adult Autism Outpatient Clinic at the Department of Psychiatry and
Psychotherapy, University of Cologne, Germany (01/2009-02/2015).
Dr. med., Medical Faculty, University of Cologne (03/2008).
Physician & Research associate (Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter), Center for
Neurology and Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cologne,
Germany (01/2007-02/2015).
German license to practice medicine (Approbation als Arzt) (11/2006).
M.D., University of Technology Dresden, Germany (10/2006).
University education
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, United States of America
(2006).
University College London, United Kingdom (2005).
University of Technology Dresden, Germany (Harvard International Associated
Institution; 2001-2002 & 2003-2006).
Ernst-Moritz-Arndt Universität Greifswald, Germany (1999-2001).
Priv.-Doz. Dr. med.
LEONHARD SCHILBACH
Curriculum vitae
Work address
Max-Planck-Institut für Psychiatrie &
Klinik für Psychiatrie,
Psychotherapie, Psychosomatik und
Neurologie
Zentrum für Nervenheilkunde
Kraepelinstrasse 2-10
D-80804 Munich
Email
[email protected]
url www.leonhardschilbach.de
Research Interests
Social neuroscience: neurobiological correlates of social interaction in psychiatric
(and other) disorders.
Methods Used
Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI; 1,5 & 3T; SPM & Brain Voyager),
eyetracking (ASL, IView, Eyelink & Tobii), electromyography (EMG).
Selected Publications
Schilbach, L (2010). A second-person approach to other minds. Nature Reviews
Neuroscience.
Schilbach, L*, Timmermans, B*, Reddy, V, Costall, A, Bente, G, Schlicht, T, Vogeley,
K (2013). Toward a second-person neuroscience. Behavioral and Brain Sciences.
*Equal contributions.
Pfeiﬀer, UJ, Vogeley, K, Schilbach, L (2013). From gaze cueing to dual eyetracking:
Novel methods to study the neural correlates of gaze in social interaction.
Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews.
Gamer, M, Schmitz, K, Tittgemeyer, M, Schilbach, L (2013). The amygdala is
causally implicated in reflexively shifting gaze towards diagnostic facial features.
Current Biology.
Preller, K, Herdener, M, Schilbach, L, Stämpfli, P, Hulka, LM, Vonmoos, M, Ingold, N,
Vogeley, K, Tobler, P, Seifritz, E, Quednow, B (2014). Altered response to social gaze
is associated with blunted activation of the brain‘s reward system in cocaine users.
PNAS.
Short lists
Short listed for position of ,Full Professor in Brain Imaging and Cognitive
Neuroscience‘ at the Institut de Neurosciences de la Timone, Marseille, France,
2012.
Short listed for W1 professorship ,Translational Psychiatry‘ (tertio loco), University of
Technology Dresden, 2013.
Short listed for W2 professorship ,Social Cognition‘ (secundo loco), Berlin School of
Mind & Brain, Humboldt Universität, 2014.
Awards
Hans-Heimann-Preis, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Psychiatrie, Psychotherapie &
Nervenheilkunde (DGPPN), 2009.
Barbara-Wengeler-Preis, Barbara-Wengeler-Stiftung, 2013.
Support
„Verhaltens- und Augenbewegungsuntersuchungen der interaktiven Blickkoordination sowie der „gemeinsamen Aufmerksamkeit“ bei Autismus und
Schizophrenie“, Köln Fortune, 2010-2011 (30.780€) & 2011-2012 (31.200€).
„Being Addressed as You: Conceptual and Empirical Investigations of a SecondPerson Approach to Other Minds“, VolkswagenStiftung, 2010-2014 (313.100€).
„Eﬀects of fasting and sleep deprivation on value-based and perceptual decision
making“, Teilprojektleitung zusammen mit Dr. Jan Peters, Sonderforschungsbereich
(SFB 134): „Ingestive Behaviour: Homeostasis and Reward"), Deutsche
Forschungsgesellschaft, 2014-2017 (246.200€).
Free-floating, independent research group, Max-Planck-Society, 2015-2020
(1.700.000€).
Collaborator in DFG-funded project „Multi-modale Charakterisierung der
Hirnnetzwerke für soziale Interaktion“ (grant holders: Dr. Danilo Bzdok & Prof. Simon
Eickhoﬀ), Deutsche Forschungsgesellschaft, 2014-2017 (EI 816/6-1; 146.000€).

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