Philipp Sterzer

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Philipp Sterzer is Professor of Translational Psychiatry at University of Basel and Chief Physician at University Psychiatric Clinics (UPK) Basel. He studied medicine at Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich and Harvard Medical School, obtained his doctorate at the Max-Planck-Institute of Psychiatry in Munich, and completed his clinical neurology training at Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main. Following postdoctoral work in Frankfurt am Main and at the Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging in London, he became a research group leader at the Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy at Charité Berlin, where he also trained in clinical psychiatry and psychotherapy. In 2011, Philipp Sterzer was appointed Professor of Psychiatry and Computational Neuroscience at Charité, where he established a pioneering research program that employs neuroimaging, psychophysics, and computational modeling to examine predictive brain processes in the context of delusional beliefs and their pathogenesis. In 2022, he assumed his current role at University of Basel, where his research focuses on translating this work into clinical practice. In addition to publishing numerous articles in leading scientific journals such as PNAS, Biological Psychiatry, Brain, and Nature Neuroscience, he recently authored a well-received popular science book titled "Die Illusion der Vernunft" ("The Illusion of Rationality").