Frank Scharnowski

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