Leonie Esser
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Leonie Esser has been a doctoral researcher at the Institute of Clinical Psychology and Behavioral Neuroscience since October 2024.
Her research focuses on the neural correlates of affective disorders with an emphasis on emotion regulation and empathy. She is also interested in the impact of early-life stress on depressive symptomatology and in the neurobiological mechanisms underlying this association.
Academic career
| Since 2025 | Lecturer, Chair of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy, University of Hamburg, Germany |
| Since 2024 | Research Associate, Professorship for Clinical Psychology and Behavioral Neuroscience, Technical University Dresden, Germany |
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2023 |
Research Intern, SCAN Unit, University of Vienna, Austria |
| 2022 | Research Intern, Chair of Research and Science Management, Technical University Munich, Germany |
| 2021 |
Intern, Psychiatric University Hospital of the Charité at St. Hedwig Hospital, Germany |
Education
| 2023 | M.Sc. in Psychology (Mind and Brain), University of Vienna, Austria |
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2021 |
B.Sc. in Psychology, Sigmund Freud University Vienna, Austria |
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2019 |
Study abroad semester at Københavns Universitet, Denmark |
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