Hauke R. Heekeren
(* 1971)
Freie Universität Berlin
Biological Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience
Department of Education and Psychology
Education
2000 Medical Degree from Essen University
Scientific Degrees
2013 Habilitation, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
2006 Doctoral Dissertation, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Career
since 2015 Dean of the Department of Education and Psychology
since 2015 Managing Director of the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience Berlin
2013-2015 Vice dean for Research of the Department of Education and Psychology
2009-2014 Deputy speaker of the Cluster of Excellence “Languages of Emotion”
since 2009 Professor of Biological Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience
since 2006 Faculty member of the Berlin School of Mind and Brain
since 2006 Faculty member of the International Max Planck Research School on the Life Course
(LIFE), MPI for Human Development
2005-2010 Head of Max-Planck Research Group “Neurocognition of Decision Making” at the Max
Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin
2004-2009 Group leader, Executive Functions and Language group, Berlin Neuroimaging Center
& Neuroscience Research Center, Charité, Berlin
2001-2003 Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Lab of Brain and Cognition, NIH, NIMH, Bethesda, MD
2000-2001 Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Dept. of Neurology, Charité, Berlin
Awards and Honors
2012 President Society for Neuroeconomics
2008 Medical Neurosciences Teaching Award
2005 Rudolph Virchow Award for excellence in research (Charité - Universitätsmedizin
Berlin)
2004 Rudolph Virchow Award for excellence in research (Charité - Universitätsmedizin
Berlin)
2001 Emmy-Noether-Fellowship (DFG)
Editor or Associate Editor
since 2011 Chief Editor Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
since 2010 Chief Editor Frontiers in Decision Neuroscience
2009-2011 Associate Editor Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
2008-2009 Editorial Board Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
Selected publications
Schulreich, S., Gerhardt, H., & Heekeren, H. R. (2016). Incidental fear cues increase monetary lossaversion. Emotion, 16(3), 402.
Nassar, M. R., Bruckner, R., Gold, J. I., Li, S. C., Heekeren, H. R., & Eppinger, B. (2016). Agedifferences in learning emerge from an insufficient representation of uncertainty in older adults.Nature communications, 7.
Oganian, Y., Conrad, M., Aryani, A., Spalek, K., & Heekeren, H. R. (2015). Activation patternsthroughout the word processing network of L1-dominant bilinguals reflect language similarityand language decisions. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 27(11), 2197-2214.
Philiastides, M. G., Heekeren, H. R., & Sajda, P. (2014). Human scalp potentials reflect a mixtureof decision-related signals during perceptual choices. The Journal of Neuroscience, 34(50), 16877-16889.
Green, N., Bogacz, R., Huebl, J., Beyer, A. K., Kühn, A. A., & Heekeren, H. R. (2013). Reductionof influence of task difficulty on perceptual decision making by STN deep brain stimulation.
Current Biology, 23(17), 1681-1684.
Green, N., Biele, G. P., & Heekeren, H. R. (2012). Changes in neural connectivity underlie decisionthreshold modulation for reward maximization. The Journal of Neuroscience, 32(43), 14942-14950.
Philiastides, M. G., Auksztulewicz, R., Heekeren, H. R., & Blankenburg, F. (2011). Causal role ofdorsolateral prefrontal cortex in human perceptual decision making. Current Biology, 21(11), 980-983.
Biele, G., Rieskamp, J., Krugel, L. K., & Heekeren, H. R. (2011). The neural basis of following advice.PLoS Biology, m9(6), e1001089.
Mohr, P. N. C., Biele, G., & Heekeren, H. R. (2010). Neural processing of risk. The Journal ofNeuroscience, 30(19), 6613-6619.
Philiastides, M.-G., Biele, G., & Heekeren, H. R. (2010). A mechanistic account of value computationin the human brain. The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA, 107(20), 9430-9435.
Heekeren, H. R., Marrett, S., & Ungerleider, L. G. (2008). The neural systems that mediate humanperceptual decision making. Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 9(6), 467-479.