Barbara Molz

Barbara Molz is a Research Fellow and Research Coordinator at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in the Language and Genetics Department, collaborating closely with the Imaging Genomics Research Group on neuroimaging-genetics integration projects.

Her educational background includes:

• Bachelor’s degree in Biology from the University of Regensburg
• Master’s degree in Molecular Neuroscience from the University of Vienna
• PhD in Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging from the University of York (Marie Curie Fellowship)

Her research focuses on brain imaging genomics, integrating multimodal neuroimaging with genetic data to study human evolution (genetic variants' influence on brain morphology and language traits) and developing neuroimaging tools like TASH for Heschl’s gyrus segmentation. She contributes to large-scale consortia including ENIGMA’s genome-wide meta-analysis of diffusion imaging phenotypes.

Her scientific recognition includes:

• Marie Curie PhD Fellowship

As part of the ENIGMA consortium core team and human evolution project, she advances collaborative neurogenetics research using massive datasets to explore evolutionary neuroscience questions through advanced imaging and genomic integration.