Christian Beste

Christian Beste,
Prof. Dr. rer nat., Dipl.-Psych.

Professor for Cognitive Neurophysiology

Personal

Beste, Christian

15.03.1981, married, no children

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Christian Beste

Academic Education

2012

Habilitation (2nd PhD) in Cognitive Neuroscience at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum.

2007

PhD (Dr. rer. nat.) at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum (magna cum laude) (supervisors: Prof. Dr. Dr. h. cs. Güntürkün; Prof. Dr. Falkenstein)

2001-2006

Study of Psychology at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum (Diploma, M.Sc.-equivalent) (with distinction)

Academic Career

since 2021

Director of the University Neuropsychology Centre (UNC), TU Dresden

since 2020

Guest Scientist at the Shandong Normal University, Department of Psychology, PR China

since 2014

adjunct Professor at the Institute for Psychology, TU Dresden

since 2013

Professor for Cognitive Neurophysiology, TU Dresden

2012 – 2013

Head of the Emmy Noether Group “Neuronal mechanisms of action control” (Ruhr-Universität Bochum)

2011 – 2012

Post-Doc in the Biopsychology Unit (Prof. Dr. Dr. h. cs. Güntürkün) Institut für Kognitive Neurowissenschaft (Ruhr-Universität Bochum)

2010 – 2011

Post-Doc at the MRC Cognition and Brain Science Unit, Cambridge, UK (Prof. Dr. John Duncan, FRS) (DFG-Scholarship)

2009 – 2010

Post-Doc in the Biopsychology Unit (Prof. Dr. Dr. h. cs. Güntürkün) Institut für Kognitive Neurowissenschaft (Ruhr-Universität Bochum)

2008 – 2009

Post-Doc at the Leibniz Institut für Arbeitsforschung (Prof. Dr. Falkenstein), Dortmund

2007 – 2008

Post-Doc at the Institut für Klinische Radiologie, Westfälische Wilhelms Universität Münster (Prof. Dr. Heindel, Prof. Dr. Dr. Pfleiderer)

2006 – 2007

PhD-student, Leibniz Institut für Arbeitsforschung (Prof. Dr. Falkenstein) and the Neurological University Clinic, Ruhr Universität Bochum (Prof. Dr. Gold)

Honors and Awards

2024

2024

2023

Talent Scout for the “Alexander von Humboldt Foundation” (Period from 2025 till 2027)

“Shandong Distinguished Foreign Expert” awarded by Shandong Province Department of Science and Technology, PR China

International expert group at the Ernst Strüngmann Forum 2023 on the “Organization of frontal lobe networks and function – Localization and Interaction”.

2023

Credibility in Neuroscience Team Award der British Neuroscience Association for the #EEGManyLabs Initiative

2022

Receipt of a subordinated “assistant professorship (W1) for Computational Neuroscience” (with endowment) for the DZKJ by the Medical Faculty honoring outstanding scientific achievements.

2012

Emmy Noether Awardee (by DFG)

since 2011

several papers emphasized by the “Faculty of 1000”

2009

Young Scientist Award of the „Deutschen Gesellschaft für psychophysiologische Methodik und ihre Anwendung (DGPA)“

2003

Scholarship in the “Vigoni-Programm” (by DAAD)

Third party funding

since 2007

Several million Euros self-administrated funds (DFG, BMBF, Foundations etc.) (Details upon reasonable request).

since 2013

Mentoring for various successful proposals by young scientists in my group (ca. 1.4 Mio. Euros; DFG and EKFS Foundation).

Teaching and theses supervision

since 2013

1 Habilitation

since 2012

23 PhD theses completed

since 2013

8 MD theses completed

since 2009

more than 55 undergraduate theses (Dipl., BSc, MSc) completed

since 2009

continuous teaching (Seminars, Lectures) on various biopsychological and neuropsychological topics

Speakerships and Steering Committees

since 2024

Steering of “PLOS Mental Health: The Bigger Picture”. Platform to promote ECRs and convey mental health topics for laypeople

since 2024

since 2021

Coordinator of the “DZKJ-Academy” at the SaxoChilLD-site

Director of the University Neuropsychology Centre (UNC)

since 2020

Steering Committee for „SaxoChiLD“-site in the German Center for Child and Adolescent Health (DZKJ) funded by the BMBF

since 2019

Steering Committee in the CRC TRR 265 „ReCoDe“

since 2018

Co-Speaker of the DFG Research Unit 2698 („Cognitive Theory for Tourette Syndrome“)

Other academic engagement and positions

2025-2027

2022

Talent Scout for the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation

Head of the appointing committee „Computational Neuroscience“ (W1-Professorship)

since 2021

Elected member of the faculty board, Medical Faculty, TU Dresden

since 2013

Permanent member of the MD doctoral committee, Medical Faculty, TU Dresden

since 2013

Member of various Professorship Appointment committees (W1, W2, W3)

Reviewing and editorial engagement

Editorial memberships

Organization of the peer-review process for several dozens of paper submissions (yearly) in the following journals:

since 2024

NeuroImage (Associate Editor)

since 2023

PLOS Mental Health (Founding Section Editor for “Cognition & Mental Health”)

since 2023

BMJ General Psychiatry (Editorial Board)

since 2022

Journal of Clinical Medicine (Editorial Board)

since 2021

Communications Biology (Editorial Board)

since 2020

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience (Associate Editor)

since 2020

Frontiers in Psychology (Associate Editor)

2019

Journal of Clinical Medicine (Guest Editor)

2016

European Journal of Neuroscience (Guest Editor)

since 2014

Scientific Reports (Editorial Board)

2013

Frontiers in Cognition (Guest Editor)

since 2011

Neuropsychologia (Editorial Board)

2009-2013

Journal of Psychophysiology (Associate Editor)

Reviewer for international journals (selection)

Reviewer of several dozens of papers per year for journals such as (selection)

  • Archives of General Psychiatry;
  • Biological Psychiatry;
  • Brain;
  • Brain, Behaviour and Immunity;
  • Cerebral Cortex;
  • Cognition;
  • Communications Biology
  • Cortex;
  • Current Biology;
  • eClinicalMedicine (The Lancet);
  • Human Brain Mapping;
  • iScience
  • Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience;
  • Journal of Experimental Psychology: General;
  • Journal of Experimental Psychology: HPP;
  • Journal of Neuroscience;
  • Lancet Neurology;
  • Neurobiology of Aging;
  • NeuroImage;
  • NeuroImage Clinical;
  • Neurology;
  • Nature Communications;
  • Neuropsychologia;
  • PNAS;
  • Trends in Cognitive Science;
  • Neuroscience and Biobehavioural Reviews;
  • Schizophrenia Bulletin;
  • Science Advances;
  • Scientific Data;

Reviewer for funding agencies (selection)

  • Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC);
  • Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG);
  • Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD);
  • European Research Council (ERC);
  • Else Kröner Fresenius Stiftung (EKFS);
  • Österreichischer Wissenschaftsfonds (FWF);
  • Medical Research Council (MRC);
  • Natural Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC);
  • Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO);
  • Prinses Beatrix Fonds;
  • Schweizerischer Nationalfonds (SNF);
  • Welcome Trust;

Public Outreach

since 2022

“Agentur für Überschüsse” (Agentur für Überschüsse | startseite (ueberschuesse.net)); Professional outreach platform using Theatre performance, documentary films, etc. focused on education, empowerment, and communication of patients. It aims to communicate the latest neuroscience research to a broad and colorful audience.

since 2022

„Neuronauten Projekt” (Project using Gamification for psychoeducation in Multiple Scleorsis) as part of the UNC activities.

since 2013

talks and hands-on presentations at the Long Night of Science, Dresden.

Knowledge transfer

since 2019

reference lab for BrainProducts Inc. (EEG/ERP Solutions | Brain Products GmbH)

since 2017

cooperation with MedicalSyn Inc. (Home – MedicalSyn GmbH) in projects aiming at transferring basic cognitive neuroscience knowledge to “digital health” use-cases for diagnostics and therapies (e.g., Dual-tasking APP, Neurofeedback@Home, AI-based EEG triaging tool for children etc.).

since 2015

Operation of a “Neurofeedback outpatient unit” to transfer basic neurophysiology into improved neurofeedback treatments for various neuropsychiatric disorders.

Open Science

One of my 1st publications was open-access (OA). I am serving the Editorial boards and as section editor of OA-journals (e.g., Communications Biology, PLOS etc.) to support transformation of science into “open access”, “open data” and “open materials”. Together with colleagues from the #EEGManyLabs Initiative I was awarded the “Credibility in neuroscience team award” by the British Neuroscience Association in 2023, as a recognition of efforts directed to increase reproducibility in neuroscience.