We follow at-risk women from pregnancy to 6 months postpartum to better understand PPD and build predictive ML models for early support.

Many thanks to all my team including @traplabms.bsky.social @chris-jurischka.bsky.social @kflinkenfluegel.bsky.social @juliahubbert.bsky.social @judithkrieger.bsky.social and Wiebke Ringels, Udo Dannlowski, Robert Nitsch and all my collaborators!

While these awards are a personal milestone, I hope they help raise visibility for a topic close to my heart:
How childhood adversity shapes brain and health and the need to identify psychiatric risk early, so that children and families get the support they need
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🏆 Promotion Award – University Society Münster
This award recognises my work at the interface of neuroscience and psychiatry.
Early adversity can shape the brain in lasting ways – and I’m committed to making that science heard, seen, and taken seriously.
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📰 Publication Award 2025 – @ekfstiftung.bsky.social
Awarded for the largest prospective study to date (N=881) with @kflinkenfluegel.bsky.social in Lancet Psychiatry @thelancet.com on cognitive decline in depression and its association with white matter integrity.

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📍 @ecnp.eu Rising Star Award
I’m honoured to receive this year’s award – and to present the Campfire Session “Mind and matter: How depression reshapes the brain” at #ECNP2025 on how longitudinal neuroimaging may improve clinical translation.
🗓 Monday, 13 Oct, 13:55 CEST
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Thank you so much!

Thank you! Without your support it would not have been possible!🤗

Vielen Dank! Die letzten Wochen waren manchmal nicht so gut für meinen Blutdruck 😅 kann das alles noch gar nicht so richtig fassen.

Thank you very much!! 🤩

Thanks a lot 😊

Thanks to everyone who’s been part of this journey. I can’t wait for what’s next.

Everyone who’s shared ideas, time, or coffee with me over the years:
@neurometabolic.bsky.social, @marcellawoud.bsky.social, @kabro.bsky.social, FOR2107, and the many more brilliant minds I owe thanks to (you know who you are!)

The Institute for Translational Psychiatry:
@jboehnlein.bsky.social, @lisaleehr.bsky.social,
@nilsopel.bsky.social, Tiana Borgers, Leonie Hater, Maike Richter, Dominik Grotegerd, Bettina Walden, and all the others

My thesis survival squat:
@katfoerster.bsky.social, Dario Zaremba, and Christian Bürger🎓

My academic inner circle: @janikgoltermann.bsky.social, @mariusgruber.bsky.social, @jonathanrepple.bsky.social, Ramona Leenings, and Nils Winter🤩

Thanks to everyone who’s been part of this journey:

The rising stars of tomorrow:
@judithkrieger.bsky.social,
@chris-jurischka.bsky.social, @juliahubbert.bsky.social, Wiebke Ringels, Anna Kraus, Katharina Thiel, Alexandra Winter, Kira Flinkenflügel, and Linda Bonnekoh🧠

I hope to use the visibility of this award to help draw more attention to children’s mental health - a field that’s close to my heart. Advancing our understanding of the neurodevelopmental transitions perspective will be at the core of my work!

In my Campfire Session, I’ll share how large-scale longitudinal neuroimaging initiatives can be embedded in a translational framework as demonstrated in our @trr393.bsky.social

I can’t wait to work with such brilliant peers and ambitious ERCs. It’s a privilege to be part of this community!