Sep 23, 2025
Two awards for Dr Christa Müller-Axt
Presentation of the GNP Early Career Research Award in Leipzig. From left to right: Dipl.-Psych. PD Dr. Bruno Fimm (Aachen, Scientific Advisory Board GNP), Dipl.-Psych. Frank Uecker (Magdeburg, Hasomed® GmbH), Dr. rer. nat. Christa Müller-Axt (TUD Dresden University of Technology), PD Dr. rer. nat. Max Töpper (Bielefeld, GNP Executive Board).
Dr Christa Müller-Axt works at the Chair of Cognitive and Clinical Neuroscience headed by Prof Katharina von Kriegstein. Her research focuses on modern brain imaging techniques, with a particular emphasis on deep brain structures and their significance for developmental disorders such as dyslexia. She has now received two awards for her publication ‘Dysfunction of the magnocellular subdivision of the visual thalamus in developmental dyslexia,’ which appeared this year in the renowned journal Brain:
1. GNP Early Career Research Award
On 6 September 2025, Dr Christa Müller-Axt was awarded the GNP Early Career Research Award by the German Society for Neuropsychology at the 9th Scientific Meeting of the Federation of the European Societies of Neuropsychology (FESN) and the 40th Annual Meeting of the German Neuropsychological Society (GNP) in Leipzig. The prize, endowed with €1,250, is sponsored by Hasomed® GmbH and recognises outstanding research work by young scientists in the field of clinical and cognitive neuropsychology.
2. Biopsychology Research Prize of the German Psychological Society (DGPs)
The Biopsychology Research Award is a publication award presented by the Biological Psychology and Neuropsychology Section of the DGPs. The award, which is endowed with €1,500, is aimed at young scientists whose work has been published in an international (peer-reviewed) journal and represents a contribution of outstanding importance to the field. The award ceremony for Dr Christa Müller-Axt took place on 21 June 2025 during the 50th symposium on ‘Psychology and the Brain’ in Würzburg.
We congratulate Dr. Müller-Axt on these great achievements. With her work on the neural basis of dyslexia, she has made an important contribution to bio- and neuropsychology and opened up new perspectives for diagnosis and intervention. The award-winning research was conducted as part of her doctoral studies at the Dresden University of Technology in collaboration with the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Leipzig.
Original publication:
Müller-Axt, C., Kauffmann, L., Eichner, C., & von Kriegstein, K. (2025). Dysfunction of the magnocellular subdivision of the visual thalamus in developmental dyslexia. Brain, 148(1), 252-261. DOI: 10.1093/brain/awae235
TUD press release:
https://tu-dresden.de/tu-dresden/newsportal/news/thalamic-brain-dysfunction-in-dyslexia-a-breakthrough-in-understanding-the-most-common-learning-disorder?set_language=de
Contact:
Dr. Christa Müller-Axt
Chair of Cognitive and Clinical Neuroscience
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