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 and Degrees | |
2012 | Habilitation “On the functional relevance of basal ganglia processes |
2007 | PhD (Dr. rer. nat.): magna cum laude “A cognitive-neurophysiological |
2001-2006 | Study of Psychology at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum |
Professional Experience |
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| since 05/2021 | Director of the University Neuropsychology Centre (UNC), TU Dresden |
| since 03/2020 | Visiting scholar at Shandong Normal University, Department of Psychology (Double hundred talent programme), VR China |
| since 06/2014 | Adjunct Professor at the Institute of Psychology, TU Dresden, Germany |
| since 10/2013 | Professor for Cognitive Neurophysiology, TU Dresden |
| 02/2012-09/2013 | Head of the Emmy Noether Research Group “Neuronal mechanisms of action control” Ruhr-Universität Bochum |
| 02/2011-01/2012 | Post-Doc in the Biopsychology Unit (Prof. Güntürkün) Institute for Cognitive Neuroscience Ruhr-Universität Bochum |
| 04/2010-01/2011 | Post-Doc at the MRC Cognition and Brain Science Unit, Cambridge UK (Prof. John Duncan, FRS) (DFG scholarship) |
| 02/2009-03/2010 | Post-Doc in the Biopsychology Unit (Prof. Güntürkün) Institute for Cognitive Neuroscience Ruhr-Universität Bochum |
| 03/2008-01/2009 | Post-doc at the Leibniz Research Centre for Working Environment and Human Factors (Prof. Falkenstein) |
| 08/2007-02/2008 | Post-doc at the Department of Clinical Radiology, University of Münster (Prof. Dr. Dr. Pfleiderer) |
| 04/2006-08/2007 | PhD-student at the Leibniz Research Centre for Working Environment and Human Factors (Prof. Falkenstein) and the Department of Neurology, Ruhr Universität Bochum (Prof. Dr. Gold) |
Other Scientific Activities and Professional Services
Editorial
| 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) |
| since 2019 | International Journal of Molecular Sciences (Editorial Board) |
| 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
Archives of General Psychiatry; Biological Psychiatry; Brain; Brain, Behaviour and Immunity; Cerebral Cortex; Cortex; Current Biology; Human Brain Mapping; Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience; Journal of Neuroscience; Lancet Neurology; Neurobiology of Aging; NeuroImage; NeuroImage Clinical; Neurology; Nature Communications; Neuropsychologia; Neuroscience and Biobehavioural Reviews; Schizophrenia Bulletin; Science Advances; Trends in Cognitive Science
Grant Reviewer for
- Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC)
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)
- Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD)
- European Research Council (ERC)
- FWF (Österreich)
- Prinses Beatrix Fonds (Niederlande)
- Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO)
- Medical Research Council (MRC)
- Schweizerischer Nationalfonds (SNF)
Bibliographic metrics
- more than 320 publications in peer-reviewed journals since 2006 (i.e., year of PhD)
- H-index = 57 since 2006 (Google Scholar)
- citations: 10,400 since 2006 (Google Scholar)
Top10 Publications
- Kleimaker M, Takacs A, Conte G, Onken R, Verrel J, Bäumer T, Münchau A, Beste C (2020). Increased perception-action binding in Tourette syndrome. Brain, 143, 1934-1945. doi.org/10.1093/brain/awaa111
- Beste C, Moll CKE, Pötter-Nerger M, Münchau A (2018). Striatal microstructure and its relevance for cognitive control. Trends Cogn Sci, 22, 747-751.
- 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. Sci Adv, eaar6830.
- Beste C, Mückschel M, Rosales R, Domingo A, Lee L, Ng A, Klein C, Münchau A (2018). The basal ganglia striosomes affect the modulation of conflicts by subliminal information – evidence from X-linked dystonia parkinsonism. Cereb Cortex, 28, 2243-2252.
- Chmielewski WX, Beste C (2015). Action control processes in Autism Spectrum Disorder – insights from a neurobiological and neuroanatomical perspective. Prog Neurobiol, 124, 49-83.
- Dippel G, Beste C (2015). A causal role of the right inferior frontal cortex in implementing strategies for multi-component behavior. Nat Commun 6:6587
- Mückschel M, Stock AK, Beste C (2014). Psychophysiological mechanisms of interindividual differences in goal activation modes during action cascading. Cereb Cortex, 24, 2120-2129.
- Beste C, Dinse HR (2013). Learning without training. Curr Biol, 23, R489-499
- Beste C, Wascher E, Dinse HR, Saft C (2012). Faster perceptual learning through excitotoxic neurodegeneration. Curr Biol, 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. Curr Biol, 21, 876-882.