Curriculum Vitae - Prof. Dr. Christian Beste
| Institute | Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychotherapy |
| Faculty | Faculty of Medicine Carl Gustav Carus of the Technische Universität Dresden (TU Dresden) |
| Born | 15.03.1981 |
Education and Employment
| Scientific Education an Degrees | |
2001-2006 | Habilitation “On the functional relevance of basal ganglia processes |
2007 | PhD (Dr. rer. nat.): magna cum laude “A cognitive-neurophysiological |
2013 | Study of Psychology at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum |
Professional Experience |
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| 04/2006-08/2007 | PhD-student at the Leibniz Research Centre for Working Environment and |
| 08/2007-02/2008 | Post-doc at the Department of Clinical Radiology, |
| 03/2008-01/2009 | Post-doc at the Leibniz Research Centre for Working Environment |
| 02/2009-03/1010 | Post-Doc in the Biopsychology Unit (Prof. Güntürkün) |
| 04/2010-01/2011 | Post-Doc at the MRC Cognition and Brain Science Unit, Cambridge UK (Prof. John Duncan, FRS) (DFG scholarship) |
02/2011-01/2012 | Post-Doc in the Biopsychology Unit (Prof. Güntürkün) Institute for Cognitive Neuroscience Ruhr-Universität Bochum |
02/2012-09/2013 | Head of the Emmy Noether Research Group “Neuronal mechanisms of action control” Ruhr-Universität Bochum |
since 10/2013 | Professor for Cognitive Neurophysiology, TU Dresden |
| since 06/2016 | Adjunct Professor at the Institute of Psychology, TU Dresden, Germany |
Other Scientific Activities and Professional Services
Editorial
| 2009-2015 | Journal of Psychophysiology (Associate Editor) |
| since 2011 | Neuropsychologia (Editorial Board) |
| 2013 | Frontiers in Cognition (Guest Editor) |
| since 2014 | Scientific Reports (Editorial Board) |
| 2016 | European Journal of Neuroscience (Guest Editor) |
Reviewer for
Archives of General Psychiatry; Biological Psychiatry; Biological Psychology; Brain; Brain, Behaviour and Immunity; Cerebral Cortex; Clinical Neurophysiology; Cognitive and Behavioral Neurology; Cognitive, Affective and Behavioural Neuroscience; Cortex; Current Biology; Depression and Anxiety; European Journal of Neuroscience; European Journal of Neurology; Frontiers in Cognition; Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience; Frontiers in Neuroscience; Human Brain Mapping; Human Psychopharmacology: Clinical and Experimental; International Journal of Psychophysiology; Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience; Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society; Journal of Neuroscience; Journal of Neural Transmission; Journal of Neurology; Journal of Neuroscience; Journal of Psychophysiology; Neurobiology of Aging; NeuroImage; NeuroImage Clinical; Neurology; Nature Communications; Neuropsychologia; Neuroscience; Neuroscience and Biobehavioural Reviews; Parkinsonism & Related Disorders; PLoS One; Psychophysiology; Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry; Schizophrenia Bulletin
Grant Reviewer for
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)
- Prinses Beatrix Fonds (Netherlands)
- Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO)
- Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD)
- FWF (Österreich)
- Schweizerischer Nationalfonds (SNF)
- European Research Concil (ERC)
- Medical Research Council (MRC)
Bibliographic metrics
- more than 235 publications in peer-reviewed journals since 2007 (i.e., year of PhD)
- H-index = 38
Top10 Publications
- Beste C, Moll CKE, Pötter-Nerger M, Münchau M (2018). Striatal microstructure and its relevance for cognitive control. Trends in Cognitive Sciences (Epub ahead of print) doi: 10.1016/j.tics.2018.06.007
- Ocklenburg S, Friedrich P, Fraenz C, Schlüter C, Beste C, Güntürkün O, Genc E (2018) Neurite architecture of the planum temporale predicts neurophysiological processing of auditory speech. Science Advances 4:eaar680
- Letzner S, Güntürkün O, Beste C (2017) How birds outperform humans in multi-component behavior. Current Biology 27:R996-998.
- Beste C, Mückschel M, Rosales R, Domingo A, Lee L, Ng A, Klein C, Münchau A (2017) The basal ganglia striosomes affect the modulation of conflicts by subliminal information - evidence from X-linked dystonia parkinsonism. Cerebral Cortex doi:10.1093/cercor/bhx125
- Dippel G, Beste C (2015) A causal role of the right inferior frontal cortex in implementing strategies for multi-component behavior. Nature Communications 6:6587.
- Mückschel M, Stock AK, Beste C (2014) Psychophysiological mechanisms of interindividual differences in goal activation modes during action cascading. Cerebral Cortex 24:2120-2129.
- Stock AK, Arning L, Epplen JT, Beste C (2014) DRD1 and DRD2 genotypes modulate modes of goal activation processes during action cascading. Journal of Neuroscience 34:5335-5341.
- Beste C, Dinse HR (2013) Learning without training. Current Biology 23:R489-499.
- Beste C, Wascher E, Dinse HR, Saft C (2012) Faster perceptual learning though excitotoxic neurodegeneration. Current Biology 22:1914-1917.
- Beste C, Wascher E, Güntürkün O, Dinse HR (2011) Improvement and impairment of visually guided behavior through LTP- and LTD-like exposure-based visual learning. Current Biology 21:876-882.