Mathias V. Schmidt

Mathias V. Schmidt is is a group leader at the Department of Stress Neurobiology and Neurogenetics at the Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry in Munich (Germany). He received his PhD in 2004 at the University of Leiden (Netherlands) for his work on the mechanisms of early life stress in mice. His current research, which is funded by a number of national and international grants, focuses on the impact of stress during different life stages on individual health and disease. Using a wide array of behavioral, neuroendocrine and molecular approaches, Mathias Schmidt is pursuing the question why some individuals are resilient to severe stress exposure and thrive even in the face of adversity. His work is published in over 85 peer-reviewed research articles. Among his awards are the Ernst and Berta Scharrer Award of the German Endocrine Society and the NARSAD Young Investigator Award.