Dr. Lea Zillich , M.Sc. Psych.
Phone: +49 (0)761 270 - 68810
Email: lea.zillich@uniklinik-freiburg.de
Academic education
| 2014-2017 | Bachelor of Science Psychology, University of Mannheim |
| 2017-2019 | Master of Science Cognitive and Clinical Psychology, University of Mannheim |
| 2019-2023 | Ph.D. in Genetic Epidemiology in Psychiatry, Medical Faculty Mannheim, Heidelberg University |
Professional experience
| 2015-2017 | Student Research Assistant, Center for Psychological Psychotherapy, Central Institute of Mental Health Mannheim |
| 2017-2019 | Student Research Assistant, Department of Genetic Epidemiology in Psychiatry, Central Institute of Mental Health Mannheim |
| 2019-2022 | Ph.D. student and Research Assistant, Department of Genetic Epidemiology in Psychiatry, Central Institute of Mental Health Mannheim |
| 2022 | Visiting Scholar, National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA (4 months) |
| 2023 | Visiting Scholar, Department of Psychiatry, Yale School of Medicine, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA (2 months) |
| 2023-2024 | Postdoctoral Fellow, Hector Institute for Translational Brain Research and Department of Genetic Epidemiology in Psychiatry, Central Institute of Mental Health Mannheim |
Research interests
Epigenetics of substance use disorders, affective disorders and anxiety disorders, multi-omics data integration, mechanisms of action of therapy response
Awards/Stipends
- September 2024: Excellence Award of the European College of Neuropsychopharmacology (ECNP)
- 2022: NIAAA Travel Award for the meeting of the Research Society on Alcoholism (RSA)
- Research Society on Alcoholism Doctoral Student Small Grant. “Acceleration of Biological Age in Postmortem Human Brain Samples Associated with AUD: Evidence from DNA-Methylation and Telomere Data”. March ’22 – April ‘23
- DAAD Travel Grant for a research stay at the National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism with Dr. Falk Lohoff in Bethesda, Maryland, USA and at Yale University with Dr. Janitza Montalvo-Ortiz
- 2021: Poster Award at the congress of the European Society of Biomedical Research on Alcoholism (ESBRA) “Multi-Omics Signatures of Alcohol Use Disorder in the Ventral and Dorsal Striatum”
- 2021: NaWiK Creative Award for the most creative Flash Talk at the eMed Meeting
- 2020: NIAAA Travel Award for the World Congress of Psychiatric Genetics
- 2020: Poster Award at the eMed Meeting “Epigenome-wide Association Study of Alcohol Use Disorder in Five Brain Regions”
Professional Memberships
- European College of Neuropsychopharmacology
- Research Society on Alcohol
- Substance Use Disorder Epigenetics working group of the Psychiatric Genomics Consortium (PGC)
- Pregnancy and Childhood Epigenetics (PACE) Consortium