Julia Linke PhD

Julia Linke is a Professor at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg im Breisgau. She integrates clinical and developmental psychology with a cognitive neuroscience perspective to examine brain-behavior mechanisms that underlie alterations in emotion-cognition interactions characteristic of mood and anxiety disorders. During her diploma, she worked in the laboratory of Dr. Clemens Kirschbaum at Dresden University, studying the effects of antenatal stress on mental health and well-being in middle childhood. Her graduate work at the Central Institute of Mental Health in Germany under the mentorship of Dr. Michèle Wessa focused on cognitive flexibility and reward processing in individuals with and at risk for bipolar disorder and depression.

To study the relevant neural circuitry, Dr. Linke obtained a solid foundation in the fundamentals of task-based and resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging and diffusion tensor imaging, including an appreciation for the future potential of these techniques. In 2017, Dr. Linke joined the Section on Mood Dysregulation and Neuroscience with Dr. Ellen Leibenluft. During her postdoctoral work, Dr. Linke has been broadening and deepening her skills in human neuroimaging while examining childhood and adolescence as sensitive neurodevelopmental periods for the emergence of mood and anxiety disorders.