Tanja Endrass

Tanja Endrass is a Full Professor of Addiction Research and Head of the Chair of Addiction Research at Technische Universität Dresden's Faculty of Psychology. She also serves as Deputy Dean at the Faculty of Psychology. Her research focuses on transdiagnostic mechanisms across obsessive-compulsive disorder, addictive behaviors, and anxiety disorders, emphasizing performance monitoring, decision-making, and neuroscientific methods like EEG and fMRI.

• Education: Diploma in Psychology (2000, Universität Konstanz), Dr. rer. nat (2004, Universität Konstanz), Habilitation (2013, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin), License in Behavioral Therapy (2013).
• Professional Career: Postdoc at Humboldt-Universität (2003–2012), Senior Researcher at Otto-von-Guericke Universität Magdeburg (2012–2016), Full Professor since 2016.

Her research interests include neural mechanisms of error monitoring, habit formation, and the interplay between impulsivity/compulsivity and addiction. Key contributions include identifying overactive performance monitoring in OCD and investigating neural correlates of craving regulation in substance use disorders.

Her most recent articles explore habit-goal interactions in substance use, stress-cognition relationships, and electrophysiological markers of decision-making. She serves on the International Journal of Psychophysiology editorial board.

No specific scientific awards are listed, but her extensive peer-reviewed publications (64+ SCOPUS-indexed papers, h-index 27) reflect her scholarly impact. She oversees the Chair of Addiction Research lab, focusing on translational neuroscience approaches to addictive behaviors.