Angelika Erhardt

Prof. Dr. Angelika Erhardt is a Deputy Leading Senior Physician and Head of the Day Clinic for Depression & Day Clinic for Scientific Psychotherapy at the Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, specializing in the integration of genetic and environmental factors in anxiety disorders.

• Research Focus: Anxiety pathophysiology, panic disorder genomics, epigenetic biomarkers, and psychotherapy response mechanisms.
• Clinical Leadership: Manages day clinics for depression and evidence-based psychotherapy.
• Collaborations: Participates in the ENIGMA-Anxiety working group and the German National Cohort (NAKO) studies.

Her work leverages multi-omics and neuroimaging to identify biological subtypes of mental disorders, with recent studies on stress-induced epigenetic changes, virtual reality therapy applications, and the role of mitochondrial pathways in anxiety-related behavior.

Scientific awards and grants are not explicitly detailed in the provided text, but her extensive publication record demonstrates sustained contributions to translational psychiatry and molecular neuroscience.