Max Wolff

Max Wolff is a Researcher in the Department of Psychology at Dresden University of Technology, affiliated with the Institute of General Psychology, Biopsychology and Methods of Psychology. His work focuses on cognitive control, self-control failures, and their modulation by stress and addiction. He employs methods like ecological momentary assessment and latent-variable models to study real-life behavior across clinical and non-clinical populations.

Education:

• 2017 – Dr. rer. nat. in Psychology (summa cum laude), TU Dresden (Thesis: Real-Life Self-Control Failures)
• 2013–2015 – European Graduate School in Addiction Research (ESADD)
• 2012 – Diploma in Psychology, Justus Liebig University Giessen

Research Interests:

• Cognitive mechanisms underlying self-regulation
• Neurobiological correlates of executive functioning
• Stress effects on decision-making processes

Professional Experience:

• Postdoctoral researcher (2017–present) across Psychology and Psychiatry departments at TU Dresden
• Research assistant (2013–2017) in TU Dresden Psychology and Psychiatry departments

Lab Affiliations: Active in interdisciplinary teams combining behavioral experiments with neuroimaging and clinical research methodologies.