Short CV - Thomas Goschke

Goschke, Thomas, Prof. Dr. phil. habil.

Personal information

Date of birth    14.4.1958, male

Work address  Faculty of Psychology, School of Science

Technische Universität Dresden

Zellescher Weg 17, 01062 Dresden

Phone: +49 351 463-34695

Email: thomas.goschke@tu-dresden.de                          

Current Positions

since 2002        Professor of General Psychology (W3)

since 2003        Director, Institute for General Psychology, Biopsychology and Methods of Psychology

since 2008        Acting Director, Neuroimaging Center, TU Dresden

since 2012        Spokesperson of the Collaborative Research Centre (SFB 940): “Volition and Cognitive Control: Mechanisms, Modulators, Dysfunctions”

Research Interests

• Cognitive, affective, and neural mechanisms underlying human volition, cognitive control, and intentional action
• Emotional modulation and adaptive regulation of cognitive stability and flexibility
• Neurocognitive mechanisms that give rise to dysfunctions of self-control and maladaptive choices in daily behavior and mental disorders
• Development of an integrative theory of volition and cognitive control and the mechanisms that enable humans to anticipate future outcomes, flexibly adapt behavior to changing contexts, and override impulsive or habitual responses in the service of farsighted choices and long-term goals.
• Philosophical implications of cognitive neuroscience for concepts of free will, autonomy, and personal responsibility
• To investigate neurocognitive mechanisms of cognitive control and volitional action, my group combines behavioral tasks, functional neuroimaging (fMRI), brain stimulation methods (TMS), and ecological momentary assessments of real-life behavior.

Academic Education and Degrees

1999                  Habilitation (Psychology), Universität Osnabrück

1992                  Dr. phil. (summa cum laude), Universität Osnabrück

1987                  Diploma in Psychology (with distinction), Ruhr-Universität Bochum

1979-1987         Studies of Psychology and Philosophy, Ruhr-Universität Bochum

Professional Experience

since 2022        Faculty Member, International Max Planck Research School Cognitive Neuroimaging, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciencesd

2018 - 2022       Dean of the Faculty of Psychology, TU Dresden

2018 - 2022       Member of the Senate of the TU Dresden (qua office as dean with an advisory vote)

2018 - 2022       Member of the School Committee of the School of Science, TU Dresden

2014 - 2018       Spokesperson of the Department of Psychology, TU Dresden

2012 - 2014       Elected member of the Senate of the TU Dresden

2004 - 2009       Vice Dean and Head of the Department of Psychology, TU Dresden

2003 - 2018       Member of the Faculty Board, Faculty of Science, TU Dresden

since 2003        Director of the Institute for General Psychology, Biopsychology and Methods of Psychology

since 2002        Professor (W3) of General Psychology, TU Dresden

2003 - 2004       Guest Lecturer / Visiting Professor, University Fribourg, Switzerland

2000 - 2002       Senior Scientist, Max-Planck-Institute for Psychological Research, Munich (Cognition and Action Unit, Prof. Wolfgang Prinz)

1999 - 2000       Assistant Professor, University Osnabrück

1997                  Interim Professor of General Psychology (C4), TU Braunschweig

1995 / 1996      Visiting Faculty Member, Institute for Cognition and Decision Sciences, University of Oregon at Eugene (two stays funded by the DAAD)

1993 - 1999       Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Psychology, University Osnabrück

1989 - 1990       Fellow, Research Group Mind and Brain, Center for Interdisciplinary Research (ZiF), Bielefeld

1987 - 1993       Doctoral student, Department of Psychology, University Osnabrück

Further administrative experience

since 2004        Member or chair of numerous professorial search committees (TU Dresden, Max Planck Society)

since 2004        Member in several academic committees (Bachelor-Master-Committee, Committee for Study Affairs, Board of Examiners, committee for the structural development of the faculty)

Selected further Scientific Activities

2021                  Member of the Review Panel for the interdisciplinary research initiative “Disruption and Societal Change” (TUDiSC) at the TU Dresden

2019                  Guest Editor (with Ben Eppinger and Sebastian Musslick) of a Special Issue on “Meta-control” in Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Neuroscience

2009 - 2014       Member of the Scientific Advisory Board, European Post Graduate School in Addiction Research ESADD

2007 - 2009       Founding member of the Scientific Board of the European Platform for Life Science, Mind Sciences, and the Humanities funded by the Volkswagen-Foundation to support young researcher working at the intersection of cognitive science, neuroscience, and the humanities

2005 - 2010       Spokesperson of the interdisciplinary research consortium “Control and Responsibility: On the Nature and Culture of Volition” funded by Volkswagen Foundation

since 1993        Ad-hoc reviewer for research funding agencies (DFG, VW-Stiftung, Canadian Research Council; Max-Planck-Society; International Association for the Study of Attention and Performance; Deutsche Gesellschaft für Psychologie; Gesellschaft für Kognitionswissenschaft; German Workshop for Artificial Intelligence) and scientific journals (e.g., Psychological Review; Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition; Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance; Cognition; Brain Research; Cognitive Brain Research; Neuropsychologia; Neuroimage; Psychophysiology; Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology; Psychological Research; European Journal of Cognitive Psychology)

Organization of conferences, symposia and workshops (Selection)

since 1998   Organization of more than 40 scientific conferences, symposia and workshops, including:

2018             Organizer (with Prof. Veronika Job) of the International Symposium „Volition and Self-Control: From Metaphors to Mechanisms“, Dresden

2017             Bühler-Kolloquium of the Faculty of Psychology, TU Dresden

2017             CRC 940 Workshop “Computational modeling of cognitive control”, TU Dresden

2017             Organizer of the 59th Conference of Experimental Psychologists (TeaP, >700 participants) (with co-organizers Clemens Kirschbaum and Annette Bolte)

2015             Organizer of the International Symposium “Have We Banished the Homunculus? Dynamic Regulation, Modulation, and Optimization of Cognitive Control”. Dresden.

2008             Co-organizer of the 9th Biannual Meeting of the German Society for Cognitive Science (KogWis) (with Leon Urbas and Boris Velichkovsky)

Research Funding (past 10 years)

Note: In projects with several PIs, the total funding sum is equally distributed among PIs.

	Project leader(s)	Project title	Funding source	Total funding sum (incl. overhead)
07/2022-12/2026	Goschke, Thomas Smolka, Michael Leech, Robert	Learning, motivation, and cognitive control as transdiagnostic mechanisms in addiction and depression	DFG (IRTG 2773)	2 PhD students (75%); consu-mables
07/2020-06/2024	Goschke, Thomas Haynes, John-Dylan Möschl, Marcus	Neurobehavioral mechanisms of shielding and shifting of intentions	DFG (SFB 940/3; project A1)	573 T €
07/2020-06/2024	Goschke, Thomas Korb, Franziska Walter, Henrik	Mechanisms of self-control: The role of antici­pated emotions and future thinking in reward regulation	DFG (SFB 940/3; project A6)	552 T €
07/2020-06/2024	Kiebel, Stefan Goschke, Thomas	Towards a neurocomputational account of meta-control based on Bayesian inference in a context-specific hierarchy of time scales	DFG (SFB 940/3; project A9)	290 T €
07/2020-06/2024	Goschke, Thomas Bühringer, Gerhard Smolka, Michael	Volitional dysfunction in self-control failures and addictive behaviors	DFG (SFB 940/3; project C1)	716 T €
07/2020-06/2024	Goschke, Thomas	Administration and central tasks	DFG (SFB 940/3; project Z3)	2,573 T €
07/2016-06/2020	Goschke, Thomas Haynes, John-Dylan Walser, Moritz	Neurobehavioral mechanisms of shielding and shifting of intentions	DFG (SFB 940/2; project A1)	614 T €
07/2016-06/2020	Goschke, Thomas Korb, Franziska Wolfensteller, Uta	Mechanisms of self-control: The role of antici­pated emotions and future thinking in reward regulation	DFG (SFB 940/2; project A6)	614 T €
07/2016-06/2020	Kiebel, Stefan Goschke, Thomas	Computational modelling of cognitive control over multiple trials	DFG (SFB 940/2; project A9)	555 T €
07/2016-06/2020	Goschke, Thomas Bühringer, Gerhard Smolka, Michael	Volitional dysfunction in self-control failures and addictive behaviors	DFG (SFB 940/2; project C1)	762 T €
07/2016-06/2020	Goschke, Thomas	Administration and central tasks	DFG (SFB 940/2; project Z3)	2,153 T €
07/2012-06/2016	Goschke, Thomas Wolfensteller, Uta	Mechanisms of self-control: The role of antici­pated emotions and future thinking in reward regulation	DFG (SFB 940/1; project A6)	497 T €
07/2012-06/2016	Bolte, Annette Ruge, Hannes Goschke, Thomas	Emotional modulation of cognitive control: Effects of positive affect and reward cues on the stability-flexibility balance	DFG (SFB 940/1; project B1)	425 T €
07/2012-06/2016	Smolka, Michael Goschke, Thomas	Dopaminergic modulation of meta-control parameters and the stability-flexibility balance	DFG (SFB 940/1; project B3)	777 T €
07/2012-06/2016	Goschke, Thomas Bühringer, Gerhard Smolka, Michael	Volitional dysfunction in self-control failures and addictive behaviors	DFG (SFB 940/1; project C1)	766 T €
07/2012-06/2016	Goschke, Thomas	Administration and central tasks	DFG (SFB 940/1; project Z3)	2,216 T €
2006- 2011	PI: Goschke, Thomas Co-PIs: Wolfgang Prinz Wilhelm Vossenkuhl Sabine Maasen Henrik Walter Sabine Döring	Kontrolle und Verantwortung: Zur Natur und Kultur des Wollens	Volkswagen-Stiftung II/80 774	700 T €
04/2011- 03/2013	Goschke, Thomas, (PI) G. Bühringer (Co-PI)	Sucht als Volitionsstörung: Beeinträchtigungen kognitiver Kontrollfunktionen bei Substanzstörungen am Beispiel der Nikotinabhängigkeit	DFG GO 720/8-1	231 T €

Publications

115 journal articles, 39 book chapters (90 first or senior authorships)

Google Scholar H-index: 49

10 selected publications from the past 10 years

Clay, G., Mlynski, C., Korb, F. M., Goschke, T.*, & Job, V. (2022). Rewarding cognitive effort increases the intrinsic value of mental labor. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 119(5), e2111785119; DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2111785119

              *shared senior authorship

Krönke, K. M., Mohr, H., Wolff, M., Kräplin, A., Smolka, M. N., Bühringer, G., Ruge, H., & Goschke, T. (2021). Real-Life Self-Control is Predicted by Parietal Activity During Preference Decision Making: A Brain Decoding Analysis. Cognitive, Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience, 21(5), 936-947. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13415-021-00913-w

Markovic, D., Goschke, T., & Kiebel, S. J. (2021). Meta-control of the exploration-exploitation dilemma emerges from probabilistic inference over a hierarchy of time scales. Cognitive, Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience, 21(3), 509-533. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13415-020-00837-x

Krönke, K. M., Wolff, M., Mohr, H., Kräplin, A., Smolka, M. N., Bühringer, G., & Goschke, T. (2020). Predicting Real-Life Self-Control From Brain Activity Encoding the Value of Anticipated Future Outcomes. Psychological Science, 31(3), 268-279. https://doi.org/10.1177/0956797619896357

Krönke, K. M., Wolff, M., Shi, Y., Kräplin, A., Smolka, M. N., Bühringer, G., & Goschke, T. (2020). Functional connectivity in a triple-network saliency model is associated with real-life self-control. Neuropsychologia, 149, 107667. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2020.107667

Krönke, K. M., Wolff, M., Mohr, H., Kräplin, A., Smolka, M. N., Bühringer, G., & Goschke, T. (2018). Monitor yourself! Deficient error-related brain activity predicts real-life self-control failures. Cognitive, Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience, 18(4), 622-637. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13415-018-0593-5

Wolff, M., Krönke, K. M., Venz, J., Kräplin, A., Bühringer, G., Smolka, M. N., & Goschke, T. (2016). Action versus state orientation moderates the impact of executive functioning on real-life self-control. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 145(12), 1635-1653. https://doi.org/10.1037/xge0000229

Goschke, T. (2014). 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, 23 Suppl 1, 41-57. https://doi.org/10.1002/mpr.1410

Goschke, T., & Bolte, A. (2014). Emotional modulation of control dilemmas: the role of positive affect, reward, and dopamine in cognitive stability and flexibility. Neuropsychologia, 62, 403-423. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2014.07.015

Dshemuchadse, M., Scherbaum, S., & Goschke, T. (2013). How decisions emerge: action dynamics in intertemporal decision making. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 142(1), 93-100. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0028499

Teaching and mentoring

• Since 1990: more than 130 lectures and seminars for B.Sc. students in Psychology and M.Sc. students of Cognitive-Affective Neuroscience on a broad range of topics from general psychology and cognitive neuroscience (modules on perception, attention, thinking, problem-solving, language, decision-making, cognitive control and executive functions, learning and memory, motivation, emotion and volition); several courses at summer academies and doctoral workshops (Spring schools of the CRC 940; summer schools of the Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes; Interdisciplinary College of the Society of Computer Science)
• Karl and Charlotte Bühler award of the Faculty of Psychology for excellent teaching
• Mentor/advisor of more than 30 successfully finished doctoral theses and several habilitation candidates (five of whom received professorships or other tenured academic positions)