Awards & achievements within the HCNS network 

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  • Schilling Research Award of the German Neuroscience Society (2025) – Dr. Diane Rekow (Alexander Humboldt Fellow at the Biological Psychology and Neuropsychology lab of the University of Hamburg)

  • ERC Starting Grant (2024) – Katarzyna Grochowska

  • Adolf Fick-Prize of German Physiological Societies (2024) – Ileana Hanganu-Opatz

  • Corona Award (2024) – Karoline Degenhardt

  • ERC Advanced Grant (2023) “cICMs – Causal Roles of Intrinsic Coupling Modes: an Integrated Multiscale Framework for Cognitive Network Dynamics” – Andreas Engel

  • ERC Starting Grant (2023) – Sebastian Bitzenhofer

  • ERC Consolidator Grant (2023) “BrainScape: How the physical environment shapes the human brain” – Simone Kühn

  • ERC Consolidator Grant (2022) “EXPAT – How EXPectation and ATtention shape visual information processing in the human brain – Arjen Alink

  • ERC Synergy Grant (2021) “Microglia Control of Physiological Brain States” – Thomas Oertner

  • ERC Advanced Grant (2020) “PainPersist – Psychobiological mechanisms of pain persistence” – Christian Büchel

  • ERC Starting Grant (2020) – “TackingMinds – Tracking the decisions of others with the own mind” – Sebastian Gluth

  • Lise Meitner Group for Environmental Neuroscience, Max Planck Institute for Human Development (2019) – Simone Kühn

  • Schilling Award (2016) – Tim Magnus

  • ERC Starting Grant (2016) “Take control! Towards novel training regimes enhancing inhibition and impulse control in health and psychiatric disease” – Simone Kühn

  • Heisenberg-Professorship W3 (2016) – Simone Kühn

  • Heisenberg-Professorship W3 (2015) – Tobias H. Donner

  • ERC Consolidator Grant (2015) “Cellular substrate of abnormal network maturation in neuropsychiatric disorders” (PSYCHOCELL) – Ileana Hanganu-Opatz

  • Emmy Noether Fellowship (2009) – Ileana Hanganu-Opatz