Dr. phil. Gina Isabelle Henze

Psychologist, Head of WG: Stress, Resilience, & Positive Psychiatry, Walter Benjamin Program (DFG)

Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Charitéplatz 1, 10117 Berlin
10117 Berlin

Campus / internal address:
Bonhoefferweg 3, Room 04.054

Expertise

fMRI: structure, task-based, resting state functional connectivity
Psychobiological stress research
Psychosocial stress induction (Trier Social Stress Test, TSST; ScanSTRESS, Montréal Imaging Stress Task, MIST)
Hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis and cortisol responses

Overview of current projects:

Stressimaging: The research project incorporates questions of psychobiological stress research as well as neuroimaging statistics. Using task- and resting state-based fMRI data, normative reaction patterns to acute stress exposure are to be investigated.
Ph.D. Project Renée Laura Lipka

Own position:

2010-2015: Studies in Psychology, University of Regensburg and McGill University, Montréal (Canada)
2014-2016: Study of human medicine, University of Regensburg
2016-2020: Ph.D. in Psychology, University of Regensburg
2020-2021: Postdoc, University of Regensburg
2022: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Big Data Institute, University of Oxford (United Kingdom)
Since 2023: Walter Benjamin Programme (DFG), Research Division of Mind and Brain, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin

Scholarships, grants and awards:

2013: Scholarship for academic training and further education abroad from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) within the framework of PROMOS
2013-2015: Max Weber Programme of the Free State of Bavaria for the Promotion of Excellence
2013-2020: e.fellows.net - The Online Scholarship and Career Network
2016-2019: Doctoral scholarship of the Hanns Seidel Foundation
2017-2019: Support programme of the Friends of the University of Regensburg e.V. for travel by young scientists and scholars
2017-2019: Support programme of the Faculty of Human Sciences of the University of Regensburg to promote national and international conference/lecture activities of young researchers
2018: Staff mobility within the framework of the ERASMUS+ programme
2018: Financial Incentive System for Equality at the University of Regensburg (FAS)
2018: Research grant from the Hanns Seidel Foundation
2020: Winner of the Poster Prize (1st place) at the Virtual Poster Blitz of the Division of Biological Psychology and Neuropsychology
2021: Publication costs from the Open Access Publication Fund of the University of Regensburg
2021: Financial Incentive System for Equality at the University of Regensburg (FAS)
2022-2023: Research scholarship for young academics with a doctorate (postdoc programme) of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)
2023-2025: Walter Benjamin Project of the German Research Foundation (DFG)