Hector RCD Awardee since 2021
Jun.-Prof. Dr. Monika SchönauerJun.-Prof. Dr. Monika Schönauer
Chair of Neuropsychology, University Freiburg
Monika Schönauer is Assistant Professor and Chair of Neuropsychology at the Institute of Psychology, University of Freiburg. She is head of the Emmy Noether Research Group “The Developing Engram.”
Monika Schönauer is an expert in sleep and memory research. Her main research interest lies in how we form stable memories. To answer this question, she employs functional brain imaging and imaging of experience-dependent microstructural plasticity in the human brain. Her work also uses machine learning approaches to track the development of memory representation – during both wakefulness and sleep, where she studies the covert reprocessing of daytime experiences.
Monika Schönauer has received the Leopoldina Young Investigator Award and the Heinz Maier Leibnitz Prize of the German Research Foundation. She is a member of the Memory Disorders Research Society and the Wilhelm Wundt Society.
