Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Philipp Kanske

Research focus

Bipolar and depressive disorders
Affect (dys-)regulation
Social cognition and social behavior
Transdiagnostic markers of mental health vulnerability
Neuroimaging (fMRI, EEG)

Curriculum Vitae

	Kanske, Philipp, Prof. Dr. rer. nat. habil.
Official position	Chair of Clinical Psychology and Behavioural Neuroscience Director of the Institute of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy [from 01 October 2020 on]
Institution	Institute of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, Faculty of Psychology, Technische Universität Dresden
Business address	Chemnitzer Str. 46, 01187 Dresden

Academic education and degrees

2004	M.Sc. in Psychology, University of Oregon, USA
2005	Diploma in Psychology, Technische Universität Dresden
2008	Dr. rer nat., University of Leipzig (summa cum laude)
2011	License as psychological Psychotherapist (Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy)
2014	Habilitation, University of Heidelberg, Germany

Professional career

2009-2011	PostDoc at the Central Institute of Mental Health, Institute of Neuropsychology and Clinical Psychology, Mannheim
2011-2012	Research staff at the University of Heidelberg, University Hospital Heidelberg, Section Experimental Psychopathology and Imaging, Heidelberg
2012-2017	Group leader "Psychopathology of the Social Brain" in the Department of Social Neuroscience, Max Planck Institute of Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig
Since 2017	Professor of Clinical Psychology and Behavioral Neuroscience, Technische Universität Dresden
Since 2017	Research associate, Max Planck Institute of Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig
Since 2020	Director of the Institute of Clinical Psychology an Psychotherapy, Technische Universität Dresden

Honors, awards and positions

2006	Werner-Straub-Prize of the Department of Psychology at Technische Universität Dresden
2008	Otto Hahn Medal of the Max Planck Society
2012	Young Investigator Award of the German Society for Psychophysiology and its Application
2013	„Rising Star” of the Association for Psychological Science
2013	Young Investigator Award of the European Brain and Behaviour Society
2013	Lilly Young Investigator Fellowship in Bipolar Disorder at the International Conference on Bipolar Disorder
2015-2020	Member and Speaker (2019-2020) of the Young Academy at the National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina and the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities
2017	Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Award of the German Research Foundation
Since 2019	Member of the Forum for Health Research of the Federal Ministry for Science and Education (BMBF)

Current journal editorial positions

Since 2017	Cognition and Emotion, Associate Editor
Since 2017	Scientific Reports, Editorial Board Member
Since 2017	Frontiers in Psychiatry – Social Cognition, Associate Editor

10 most important peer-reviewed papers

(10 out of: 78, SCOPUS h-index: 25)

Schurz M, Radua J, Tholen MG, Maliske L, Margulies DS … Kanske P. Towards a Hierarchical Model of Social Cognition: A Neuroimaging Meta-Analysis and Integrative Review on Empathy and Theory of Mind. Psychological Bulletin. in press.

Tholen MG, Trautwein FM, Böckler A, Singer T, Kanske P. Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) item analysis of empathy and theory of mind. Human Brain Mapping. 2020;41:2611-2628.

Trautwein FM, Singer T, Kanske P. Stimulus-driven reorienting impairs top-down control of attention: Evidence for a common bottleneck in anterior insula. Cerebral Cortex. 2016;26(11):4136-4147.

Molenberghs P, Trautwein FM, Boeckler A, Singer T, Kanske P. Neural correlates of metacognitive ability and of feeling confident: A large scale fMRI study. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience. 2016;11(12):1942-1951.

Kanske P, Böckler A, Trautwein FM, Parianen Leseman FH, Singer T. Are strong empathizers better mentalizers? Evidence for independence and interaction between the routes of social cognition. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience. 2016;11(9):1383-1392.

Kanske P, Böckler A, Trautwein M, Singer T. Dissecting the social brain: Introducing the EmpaToM to reveal distinct neural networks and brain-behavior relations for empathy and Theory of Mind. NeuroImage. 2015;122:6-19.

Kanske P, Schönfelder S, Forneck J, Wessa M. Impaired regulation of emotion: Neural correlates of reappraisal and distraction in bipolar disorder and unaffected relatives. Translational Psychiatry. 2015;5:e497.

Kanske P, Heissler J,Schönfelder S, Forneck J, Wessa M. Neural correlates of emotional distractibility in bipolar disorder, unaffected relatives and individuals with hypomanic personality. American Journal of Psychiatry. 2013;170(12):1487-1496.

Kanske P, Heissler J, Schönfelder S, Wessa M. Neural correlates of emotion regulation deficits in remitted depression: the influence of regulation strategy, habitual regulation use, and emotional valence. Neuroimage, 2012;61(3):686-693.

Kanske P, Heissler J, Schönfelder S, Bongers A, Wessa M. How to regulate emotion? Neural networks for reappraisal and distraction. Cerebral Cortex. 2011;21(6):1379-1388.