🎉 Congratulations again to all ECNP Award winners! 🏆👏

Your groundbreaking work in applied and translational# neuroscience is truly shaping the future of #MentalHealth research 🌍🔬

#ECNP #ScientificExcellence #ECNP2025 Carmen Sandi Susanne Meinert

We follow at-risk women from pregnancy to 6 months postpartum to better understand PPD and build predictive ML models for early support.

🚨 We are hiring a new PhD at @traplabms.bsky.social !
The position is part of my group TRIAD in a DFG-funded project in collaboration with Prof. Natalia Chechko (Univ. Hospital Aachen).

🔗 Apply: jobs-sf.ukmuenster.de/job/UKM-Wiss...

@uni-muenster.de @ecnp.eu @trr393.bsky.social @dgps.bsky.social

Many thanks to all my team including @traplabms.bsky.social @chris-jurischka.bsky.social @kflinkenfluegel.bsky.social @juliahubbert.bsky.social @judithkrieger.bsky.social and Wiebke Ringels, Udo Dannlowski, Robert Nitsch and all my collaborators!

Ehre für innovative Forschung Wichtige Erkenntnisse, zahlreiche Publikationen und etliche Auszeichnungen: Die Psychologin Dr. Susanne Meinert, die Politikwissenschaftlerin Dr. Karen Siegel und der Psychologe Dr. Daniel Kluger habe...

While these awards are a personal milestone, I hope they help raise visibility for a topic close to my heart:
How childhood adversity shapes brain and health and the need to identify psychiatric risk early, so that children and families get the support they need
🔗 www.uni-muenster.de/news/view.ph...

🏆 Promotion Award – University Society Münster
This award recognises my work at the interface of neuroscience and psychiatry.
Early adversity can shape the brain in lasting ways – and I’m committed to making that science heard, seen, and taken seriously.
🔗 www.medizin.uni-muenster.de/fakultaet/ne...

Publikationspreis 2025 Fünf herausragende Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftler mit dem Publikationspreis 2025 ausgezeichnet

📰 Publication Award 2025 – @ekfstiftung.bsky.social
Awarded for the largest prospective study to date (N=881) with @kflinkenfluegel.bsky.social in Lancet Psychiatry @thelancet.com on cognitive decline in depression and its association with white matter integrity.

🔗 www.ekfs.de/wissenschaft...

📍 @ecnp.eu Rising Star Award
I’m honoured to receive this year’s award – and to present the Campfire Session “Mind and matter: How depression reshapes the brain” at #ECNP2025 on how longitudinal neuroimaging may improve clinical translation.
🗓 Monday, 13 Oct, 13:55 CEST
🔗 www.ecnp.eu/awards/list-...

Over the past few weeks, I’ve been incredibly fortunate to receive three research awards 🧠✨
It still feels a bit surreal, but I’m mostly just grateful – and would love to briefly share:
🔗 www.medizin.uni-muenster.de/fakultaet/ne...
@uni-muenster.de @trr393.bsky.social @dgps.bsky.social

Universitätsgesellschaft Münster verleiht drei Förderpreise Die Universitätsgesellschaft Münster hat die diesjährigen Förderpreise für junge Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftler verliehen. Das Preisgeld von je 5.000 Euro erhalten Dr. Susanne Meinert vom In...

Glückwunsch! Die Förderpreise der Universitätsgesellschaft gehen dieses Jahr an: Dr. Susanne Meinert (Institut f. Translationale Psychiatrie), Dr. Karen Siegel (Institut f. Politikwissenschaft) & Dr. Daniel Kluger (Institut f. Biomagnetismus und Biosignalanalyse): www.uni-muenster.de/news/view.ph...

Look at them!! Couldn’t be prouder of this brilliant crew! So lucky to work alongside such inspiring young scientists!

Also including Anna Kraus and @kflinkenfluegel.bsky.social, who are very much part of the TRIAD spirit.

⚡Meet the team Pt.2⚡

🚨 What triggers depression – and when?
At TRIAD, led by @smeinert.bsky.social, our team investigates the crucial transitions that can set depression in motion. A thread on our current research 🧵👇

#Depression #Research #Transitions

Thank you so much!

Huge thanks to @kflinkenfluegel.bsky.social, co-first author, and to Udo Dannlowski, for his immense support. Also grateful to @ekfstiftung.bsky.social for the inspiring days in Frankfurt - so many kind and brilliant people! Will keep pushing forward with @trr393.bsky.social at @uni-muenster.de 🎉

Thank you! Without your support it would not have been possible!🤗

Vielen Dank! Die letzten Wochen waren manchmal nicht so gut für meinen Blutdruck 😅 kann das alles noch gar nicht so richtig fassen.

Thank you very much!! 🤩

Thanks a lot 😊

Thanks to everyone who’s been part of this journey. I can’t wait for what’s next.

Everyone who’s shared ideas, time, or coffee with me over the years:
@neurometabolic.bsky.social, @marcellawoud.bsky.social, @kabro.bsky.social, FOR2107, and the many more brilliant minds I owe thanks to (you know who you are!)

The Institute for Translational Psychiatry:
@jboehnlein.bsky.social, @lisaleehr.bsky.social,
@nilsopel.bsky.social, Tiana Borgers, Leonie Hater, Maike Richter, Dominik Grotegerd, Bettina Walden, and all the others

My thesis survival squat:
@katfoerster.bsky.social, Dario Zaremba, and Christian Bürger🎓

My academic inner circle: @janikgoltermann.bsky.social, @mariusgruber.bsky.social, @jonathanrepple.bsky.social, Ramona Leenings, and Nils Winter🤩

Thanks to everyone who’s been part of this journey:

The rising stars of tomorrow:
@judithkrieger.bsky.social,
@chris-jurischka.bsky.social, @juliahubbert.bsky.social, Wiebke Ringels, Anna Kraus, Katharina Thiel, Alexandra Winter, Kira Flinkenflügel, and Linda Bonnekoh🧠

I hope to use the visibility of this award to help draw more attention to children’s mental health - a field that’s close to my heart. Advancing our understanding of the neurodevelopmental transitions perspective will be at the core of my work!

In my Campfire Session, I’ll share how large-scale longitudinal neuroimaging initiatives can be embedded in a translational framework as demonstrated in our @trr393.bsky.social

I can’t wait to work with such brilliant peers and ambitious ERCs. It’s a privilege to be part of this community!

My heartfelt thanks go to my mentors Udo Dannlowski and Robert Nitsch and the amazing team @traplabms.bsky.social, my own wonderful team TRIAD (couldn't have wished for a better one🤗 check them out👏 www.medizin.uni-muenster.de/translap/for...), all our collaborators, and the #ECNP for this award.

I’m deeply honoured (and still a bit stunned) to receive the #ECNP2025 Rising Star Award.

This recognition means a lot - but it also reflects the incredible people I’ve been lucky to work with.

@uni-muenster.de @dgps.bsky.social @biodgps-dgpa.bsky.social @trr393.bsky.social @traplabms.bsky.social

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Our mission is to improve the mental health of children, adolescents, and adults at risk and to contribute to effective prevention strategies.

Job posting will go live in late summer or fall. Stay tuned!

The "Transition Research in Affective Disorders" (TRIAD) Team at the @traplabms.bsky.social Institute for Translational Psychiatry in Münster is dedicated to exploring transitional periods through the lens of the biopsychosocial triad.

If you're interested in women's health, parent-child relationships, neurobiological adaptations driven by hormonal changes, longitudinal research designs, and machine learning, then consider joining my team!