Markus Ruetgen
Postdoctoral Studies
E-mail: markus.ruetgen@ki.se
Visiting address: Nobels väg 9, D3, 17165 Solna
Postal address: K8 Klinisk neurovetenskap, K8 CPF Petrovic, 171 77 Stockholm
About me
- I completed my PhD in 2016 at the University of Vienna (advisor: Claus Lamm
thesis title: “The role of the opioid system for empathic responses to
pain”), where I continued my work on the neural mechanisms underlying
empathy during my post-doctoral training. I joined the Petrovic Group and the
Emotion lab during fall 2021 as a post-doctoral fellow.
My research aims at understanding the various sub-components of human empathy
and their neural underpinnings. So far, my work was largely focused on the
experimental investigation of empathy for pain both in healthy participants
and in clinical conditions (major depressive disorder), using
psychopharmacological manipulations and functional magnetic resonance
imaging. At the Department of Clinical Neuroscience, I am extending this work
by applying computational modelling and more ecologically valid experimental
paradigms.