Philipp Kanske is Professor for Clinical Psychology and Behavioral Neuroscience and Co-Director of the Psychotherapy Outpation Clinic at Technische Universität Dresden. His research focuses on the cognitive and affective mechanisms enabling social behavior such as emotion regulation, empathy and perspective-taking. He investigates the alterations of these processes in psychopathology and their plasticity through training and therapy using behavioral and neuroimaging methods. His work has been awarded several research prizes such as the Otto Hahn Medal of the Max Planck Society and the Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Award of the German Research Foundation. 2019/2020, Philipp Kanske was the speaker of the German Young Academy at the National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina. In 2023, he was awarded an ERC consolidator grant.
For details of his work, please see https://tu-dresden.de/mn/psychologie/klipsy