Ulrich Ettinger

Prof. Ulrich Ettinger is a faculty member at the Department of Psychology, University of Bonn. His research focuses on cognition, brain function in healthy individuals, and impairments in psychiatric disorders. He employs experimental psychological methods, neuroimaging (fMRI, structural imaging), and pharmacological challenges to study attention, inhibitory control, temporal discounting, and oculomotor functions. Key interests include schizophrenia spectrum disorders, schizotypy, and the neurobiological underpinnings of mental health. He contributes to the Transdisciplinary Research Area (TRA) on Life and Health at the University of Bonn.

His work integrates clinical assessments with advanced methodologies such as eye-tracking, virtual reality (VR), and pharmacological interventions. Notable projects include investigations into GABAergic modulation of attention, lorazepam's effects on eye movements, and the role of polygenic risk scores in oculomotor endophenotypes.

Recent publications highlight contributions to chronotype-cognitive performance relationships, neurofilament light protein biomarkers, and neural correlates of decision-making processes. He has authored over 150 peer-reviewed articles and serves as a key researcher in the ENIGMA consortium for neuroimaging studies.

Professional activities include editorial roles and grant collaborations. His lab focuses on translational research bridging basic neuroscience and clinical applications, with ongoing projects exploring ketamine's impact on metacognition and ADHD assessment via VR-based gaze analysis.