Prof. Dr. phil. Thomas Goschke

Research focus

Psychological and neural mechanisms underlying human volition, cognitive control, and intentional action
Meta-control and adaptive regulation of cognitive control
Emotional modulation of cognitive stability and flexibility
Neurocognitive mechanisms underlying real-life self-control failures
Dysfunctions of cognitive control, performance-monitoring, and value-based decision-making as transdiagnostic mechanisms and vulnerability factors for substance use disorder and behavioral addictions

Curriculum Vitae

	Goschke, Thomas, Prof. Dr. phil.
Official position	Professor for General Psychology (W3) Dean of the Faculty of Psychology, TU Dresden Director of the Institute of General Psychology, Biopsychology, and Methods of Psychology
Institution	Faculty of Psychology Technische Universität Dresden
Business address	01062 Dresden

Academic education and degrees

1979-1987	Studies of Psychology and Philosophy, Ruhr-Universität Bochum
1987	Diploma in Psychology (with distinction), Ruhr-Universität Bochum
1992	Dr. phil. (summa cum laude), Universität Osnabrück
1999	Habilitation in Psychology, Universität Osnabrück

Professional career

1987-1993	Doctoral student, Department of Psychology, University Osnabrück
1993-1999	Postdoctoral Research Associate (C1), Department of Psychology, University Osnabrück
1995/1996	Visiting Faculty Member, Institute for Cognition and Decision Sciences, University of Oregon at Eugene (two stays funded by the DAAD)
1997	Interim Professor for General Psychology (C4), TU Braunschweig
1999-2000	Assistant Professor (C2), University Osnabrück
2000-2002	Senior Scientist, Max-Planck-Institute for Psychological Research, Munich (Cognition & Action Unit, Prof. Wolfgang Prinz)
Since 2002	Professor (W3) for General Psychology, Department of Psychology, TU Dresden
Since 2003	Director of the Institute for General Psychology, Biopsychology and Methods of Psychology
2003-2018	Elected Member of the Faculty Board, Faculty of Science, TU Dresden
2004-2009	Head of the Department of Psychology, TU Dresden
2004-2009	Head of the Department of Psychology, TU Dresden
2012-2014	Member of the Senate of the TU Dresden
2014-2018	Head of the Department of Psychology, TU Dresden
Since 2018	Elected Member of the School Committee of the School of Science, TU Dresden
Since 2014	Member of the Senate of the TU Dresden
Since 2019	Dean of the Faculty of Psychology, TU Dresden

Honors, awards and positions

Since 1993	Ad hoc Reviewer for various funding agencies (e.g., DFG, Volkswagen Stiftung) and scientific journals (e.g., JEPL:LMC; JEP:HPP; Cognition; Neuropsychologia; Neuroimage; Brain Research.; Psychophysiology; Quart. J. Exp. Psychology)
1989-1990	Fellow of the Research Group Mind and Brain, Center for Interdisciplinary Research (ZiF), Bielefeld
2005-2010	Spokesperson of the interdisciplinary research consortium “Control and responsibility: Investigations on the nature and culture of volition” funded by Volkswagen Foundation
2007-2009	Founding member of the Scientific Board of the European Platform for Mind, Life, & Brain Sciences, Volkswagen-Foundation
2009-2014	Member of the Scientific Advisory Board, European Post Graduate School in Addiction Research ESADD
Since 2012	Spokesperson of the Collaborative Research Centre (SFB 940): “Volition and Cognitive Control: Mechanisms, Modulators, Dysfunctions”
2013	Karl und Charlotte Bühler Lecture Award of the Department of Psychology
2015	Organizer of the Dresden International Symposium “Have We Banished the Homunculus? Dynamic Regulation, Modulation, and Optimization of Cognitive Control”
2017	Organizer (with Clemens Kirschbaum and Annette Bolte) of the 59^th Conference of Experimental Psychologists (TeaP)
2018	Organizer (with Veronika Job) of the Dresden International Symposium “Volition and Self-Control: From Metaphors to Mechanisms”

Current journal editorial positions

Since 2019

Guest Editor (with Ben Eppinger and Sebastian Musslick) of a Special Issue on “Meta-control” in Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Neuroscience

10 most important peer-reviewed papers

(10 out of 100, SCOPUS h-index: 32)

Krönke M, Wolff M, Mohr H, Kräplin A, Smolka M, … Goschke T. Predicting real-life self-control by brain activity encoding the value of anticipated future outcomes. Psychological Science. 2020;31(3),268-279.

Kräplin A, Scherbaum S, Bühringer G, Goschke T. Decision-making and inhibitory control after smoking-related priming in nicotine dependent smokers and never-smokers. Addictive Behaviors. 2019;88,114-121.

Krönke KM, Wolff M, Mohr H, Kraplin A, Smolka MN … Goschke T. Monitor yourself! Deficient error-related brain activity predicts real-life self-control failures. Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience. 2018;18(4),622-637.

Wolff M, Krönke KM, Venz J, Kraplin A, Buhringer G ... Goschke T. Action versus state orientation moderates the impact of executive functioning on real-life self-control. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. 2016;145(12),1635-1653.

Kräplin A, Behrendt S, Scherbaum S, Dshemuchadse M, Bühringer G, Goschke T. Increased impulsivity in pathological gambling: Considering nicotine dependence. Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology. 2015;37(4),367-378.

Krönke KM, Wolff M, Benz A, Goschke T. Successful smoking cessation is associated with prefrontal cortical function during a Stroop task: A preliminary study. Psychiatry Research. 2015;234(1),52-56.

Goschke T. Dysfunctions of decision-making and cognitive control as transdiagnostic mechanisms of mental disorders: advances, gaps, and needs in current research. International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research. 2014;23(1),41-57.

Goschke T, Bolte A. Emotional modulation of control dilemmas: The role of positive affect, reward, and dopamine in cognitive stability and flexibility. Neuropsychologia. 2014;62,403-423.

Dshemuchadse M, Scherbaum S, Goschke T. How decisions emerge: Action dynamics in intertemporal decision making. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. 2013;142(1),93-100.

Plessow F, Fischer R, Kirschbaum C, Goschke T. Inflexibly focused under stress: acute psychosocial stress increases shielding of action goals at the expense of reduced cognitive flexibility with increasing time lag to the stressor. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. 2011;23(11),3218-3227.