Matthias Gamer
Prof. Dr. Matthias Gamer
Phone | +49 931 31-89722 |
Fax | +49 931 31-82733 |
matthias.gamer@uni-wuerzburg.de | |
Room | 206 |
Office hours | any time |
Publications
Curriculum Vitae
since 2015 | Professor for Experimental Clinical Psychology (W2) at the University of Würzburg |
2011 - 2014 | Research group leader "Social and Applied Psychophysiology" Department of Systems Neuroscience / University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf |
2013 | Best Ph.D. advisor in Biological Psychology Awarded by the German Society for Psychophysiology and its Application |
2008 - 2011 | Postdoc in the project "The Role of the Emotional Network and Neuropeptidergic Modulation in Normal and Impaired Social Cognition" Department of Systems Neuroscience / University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf |
2010 | Young Scientist Award of the German Society for Psychophysiology and its Application |
2008 | Ph.D. in Psychology (summa cum laude), Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz |
2003 - 2008 | Research assistant and Ph.D. student Experimental Psychology / Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz |
2007 - 2009 | Junior Member of the Gutenberg-Academy for excellent young scientists at the Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz |
2005 | Excellence in Teaching award of the federal state Rheinland-Pfalz |
1997 - 2003 | Studies in Psychology (Diploma) at the Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz |
Research Grants
2021 - 2024 | IZKF Würzburg, F-461: "High-resolution structural and functional imaging of the brain to investigate subcortical structures" (Hein, G., Gamer, M., Terekhov, M.) |
2021 - 2026 | DFG Research Training Group 2660: "Neural mechanisms of (mal)adaptive approach and avoidance behaviour" (Speaker: Gamer, M.) |
2020 - 2022 | Volkswagenstiftung, Az. 99 451: "The long-term effects of Corona on mental health: Trajectories of adaptive and maladaptive coping" (Pauli, P., Hein, G., Gamer, M.) |
2016 - 2020 | SFB-TRR 58, Project C10: "Interaction of attentional and learning processes during acquisition, generalization and loss of fear" (Gamer, M.) |
2014 - 2019 | ERC Starting Grant, Project No. 336305 "Mechanisms of Social Attention" (MESA) |
2011 - 2014 | DFG Research grant, GA 1621/2-1: "Functional role of the amygdala in normal and impaired social perception" (Gamer, M., Büchel, C.) |
2010 - 2013 | DFG Research grant, GA 1621/1-1: "Emotional modulation of memory encoding and retrieval in the Concealed Information Test" (Gamer, M., Sommer-Blöchl, T., Büchel, C., Vossel, G.) |
2007 - 2012 | Project funding of the Research Focus on Interdisciplinary Neurosciences of the Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz: "Emotion processing in hypnotically induced and clinical depersonalization" (Michal, M., Beutel, M.E., Subic-Wrana, C., Stoeter, P., Bauermann, T., Vossel, G., Gamer, M., Schreckenberger, M., Metzinger, T.) |
Memberships
- Founding member of the "European consortium of Psychological Research On Deception Detection" (E-PRODD, http://eprodd.eu)
- German Psychological Society (DGPs):
- Section "General Psychology"
- Section "Biological Psychology and Neuropsychology" - German Society for Psychophysiology and its Application (DGPA)
- Organization for Human Brain Mapping (OHBM)
- Society for Neuroscience (SfN)
- Society for Psychophysiological Research (SPR)
Editorial Work
- Associate Editor Scientific Reports
- Guest Associate Editor Frontiers in Cognitive Science and Frontiers in Human Neuroscience (Research topic "Basic and applied research on deception and its detection")
- Review Editor Frontiers in Neuropsychiatric Imaging and Stimulation
Reviewing
- Ad hoc reviewer for more than 60 journals including Science, PNAS, Journal of Neuroscience, Biological Psychiatry, NeuroImage, Psychoneuroendocrinology, Cerebral Cortex, Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, Psychophysiology, Biological Psychology
- Ad hoc reviewer for several funding agencies including U.S. National Science Foundation, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), Israel Science Foundation (ISF), Research Foundation Flanders (FWO)