Gunda Hanna Johannes

Gunda Johannes was born in Pretoria, South Africa, in 1988. She studied Psychology in Göttingen, Germany, where she obtained her B.Sc. and M.Sc. in 2011 and 2013, respectively. She wrote her master thesis under Prof. Hannelore Ehrenreich at the Max Planck Institute of Experimental Medicine Göttingen, Clinical Neuroscience Group. Here she looked at the dimensionality and overlap of symptoms between the diagnostic categories of affective disorders and schizophrenia.

In June 2014, Gunda joined the Eat2Learn2Move project of the Department of Health Sciences and Technology, ETH, where she will conduct her PhD studies under the supervision of Prof. Roger Gassert (RELab), Prof. Wolfgang Langhans (Laboratory of Physiology & Behaviour), and Prof. Michael Siegrist (Consumer Behaviour). She is currently working on a real-time fMRI neurofeedback paradigm which is to be implemented in the training of neural areas related to food reward.