Philipp Kanske

Prof. Philipp Kanske is Chair of Clinical Psychology and Behavioral Neuroscience at TU Dresden, leading the Institute of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy since 2020. He holds a PhD (summa cum laude) from Leipzig University and completed postdoctoral research at the Central Institute of Mental Health and Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences. His work focuses on social cognition, emotion regulation, and neuroimaging in psychiatric disorders like bipolar disorder. He has held prestigious roles including Young Academy member at the Leopoldina and BMBF Health Research Forum.

Education: M.Sc. Psychology (University of Oregon, 2004), Diploma in Psychology (TU Dresden, 2005), Dr. rer. nat. (Leipzig, 2008), and psychotherapist license (2011). Research emphasizes neural mechanisms of empathy, theory of mind, and stress responses using fMRI/EEG. Editor roles include Cognition and Emotion and Scientific Reports.

Key awards include the Otto Hahn Medal (2008) and Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Award (2017). His 78+ peer-reviewed papers explore social brain networks, with a SCOPUS h-index of 25. Collaborations span clinical, neuroimaging, and interdisciplinary projects addressing mental health vulnerability and neuroplasticity in interventions.