PD Dr. Mathias Schmidt
PD Dr. Mathias Schmidt

PD Dr. Mathias Schmidt

Head of Neurobiology of Stress Resilience lab, MPI of Psychiatry

Day2, July 6, 12:30 p.m., Session B:
Impact of environment and way of living

Mathias V. Schmidt received his undergraduate and graduate training at the University of Bayreuth, Germany and the University of Delaware, USA, where he first became involved in stress research through the guidance of Prof. Seymour “Gig” Levine. He continued his research in the field of stress and development during his PhD training at the University of Leiden, the Netherlands, with Prof. Ron de Kloet. Mathias then moved to Munich, Germany, where he started his postdoctoral work at the Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry. Since 2010 he is leading the research group “Neurobiology of Stress Resilience” at the Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry and is a lecturer at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University. In his research, he is striving to gain a deeper, mechanistic understanding of the biological processes driving stress vulnerability and resilience, which ultimately allow the implementation of targeted pharmacological and non-pharmacological interventions to strengthen stress resilience and reduce disease burden.