CV of Frank Scharnowski:

 

EDUCATION / POSITIONS

1998

-

2001

University of Osnabrück

(Germany)

B.Sc. in Cognitive Science with honours

 

2000

 

University of Ulster

(UK)

School of Computing and Mathematics

2002

-

2004

International Max Planck

Research School in Tübingen

(Germany)

M.Sc. in Neural and Behavioural Sciences with honours

2004

-

2007

Brain Mind Institute

Swiss Institute of Technology Lausanne

(Switzerland)

PhD in Life Sciences

2008

-

2011

Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging & Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, London

(UK)

Postdoctoral Fellow

2011

-

2015

University of Geneva

Swiss Institute of Technology Lausanne

(Switzerland)

Senior Lecturer

2015

-

2018

Psychiatric Hospital

University of Zürich

(Switzerland)

 Assistant Professor

 

 2019

- present

Faculty of Psychology

University of Vienna

(Austria)

Full Professor

 

 

 

 

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

 

2000

Full-time practical training at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics with Dr. Kammer (Dept. of Prof. Kirschfeld), Tübingen (Germany)

2001 

Research Assistant at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics with Dr. Kammer (Dept. of Prof. Kirschfeld), Tübingen (Germany)

2002

Full-time practical training at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics with Prof. Franz (Dept. of Prof. Bülthoff), Tübingen (Germany)

 

2003

Research Assistant at the Institute of Medical Psychology and Behavioural Neurobiology and the Section of Experimental MR of the CNS with Dr. Weiskopf (Dept. of Prof. Birbaumer), Tübingen (Germany)

 

2003

Full-time practical training at the Center for the Study of Mind, Brain, and Behavior with Prof. Tong, Princeton (USA)

 

 

 

2003

-

2004

 

Research Assistant at the Institute of Medical Psychology and Behavioural Neurobiology and the Section of Experimental MR of the CNS with Dr. Weiskopf (Dept. of Prof. Birbaumer), Tübingen (Germany)

  

2004

Research Assistant at the Department of Psychiatry with Dr. Kammer (Dept. of Prof. Spitzer), Ulm (Germany)

 

 

2004

Research Assistant at the Institute of Brain Research with Prof. Herzog (Dept. of Prof. Fahle), Bremen (Germany)

     

 

2008

-

2010

 

Postdoctoral Fellow at the Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging & Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience with Prof. Rees and Prof. Weiskopf, London (UK)

       

2011

-

2015

Senior Lecturer at the University of Geneva and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Geneva & Lausanne (Switzerland)

 

 

 

AWARDS / FUNDING

 

 

Total grant income awarded: >6 Mio. CHF (>5.2 Mio. EUR)

 

  

 

2000

 

Socrates stipendiary awarded by the European Union

 

2001

 

Riedel-de Haen Study Foundation Prize

 

2004

Travel award of the Organisation for Human Brain Mapping

2004

-

2007

PhD Fellowship awarded by the Swiss National Science Foundation

2008

Leopoldina German National Academy of Science Fellowship

(declined)

2008

-

2009

Swiss National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship

2010

-

2011

Marie-Curie Fellowship awarded by the European Union

2011

Volker Henn Best Poster Award of the Swiss Society for Neuroscience

2011

-

2014

Ambizione Fellowship of the Swiss National Science Foundation

2012

-

2015

Re-integration grant awarded by the European Union

2015

-

2020

Professorship of the Swiss National Science Foundation

(declined) 

2015

-

2020

Starting Grant of the Swiss National Science Foundation 

2016

-

2019

 Project Funding Grant of the Swiss National Science Foundation

(with Prof. Todd Hare and Prof. Christian Ruff)

 2017

-

2018

Swiss Government Excellence Scholarship

 2017

-

2020

  Foundation for Research in Science and the Humanities Zürich / Baugarten Stiftung

 2018

-

 2021

  Swiss Government Excellence Scholarship

2018

-

2021

Project Funding Grant of the Swiss National Science Foundation