Maria Seidel

Maria Seidel is a Researcher at the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry / Neuroscience within the Medical Faculty of Technische Universität Dresden. Her work focuses on understanding the biological and neural mechanisms underlying mental disorders, particularly Anorexia Nervosa, integrating psychological, cognitive, and neuroscientific perspectives. She employs methods such as MRI, SCR data, and ecological momentary assessment to study emotion regulation and its neural underpinnings. Dr. Seidel holds a Dr. Markus Quirin-supervised MSc in Cognitive Science (2012, Universität Osnabrück) and a BSc in Psychology (2009, London Metropolitan University).

Her research emphasizes translational approaches, bridging clinical psychiatry with neuroimaging and endocrinology. Notable contributions include studies on brain activity abnormalities in Anorexia Nervosa patients and the role of reward processing in recovery. In 2014, she received the Poster Prize from the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Essstörungen.

Her academic journey includes a PhD (2012–2018) and postdoctoral research (2019–present) at the University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus Dresden, where she has collaborated on subprojects like C3 and contributed to multidisciplinary teams investigating eating disorders and neuroendocrine mechanisms.