Scientists Receives ERC Consolidator Grant – Funding for the Central Institute of Mental Health
An ERC Consolidator Grant will go to PD Dr Gordon Feld, who does research into sleep and memory at the Central Institute of Mental Health in Mannheim and teaches at Ruperto Carola’s Institute of Psychology.
Dr Feld’s project, entitled “Tracking Memory During Sleep: Understanding How Replay of Complex Information Affects Memory and Mental Health” (MemoryTracker), is about how memories are processed during sleep and their potential capacity for treating mental disorders. His research focuses on discovering how current research findings can be transferred – inter alia with the aid of modern neuroscientific methods – into practical psychotherapeutic options. The European Research Council has allocated approximately two million euros to fund the studies over five years. Since 2019, Gordon Feld has headed the Emmy Noether Group “Psychology and Neurobiology of Sleep and Memory”, which is located in the Department Clinical Psychology at the Central Institute of Mental Health. The researcher also teaches at Heidelberg University’s Institute of Psychology.
The European Research Council awards the ERC Consolidator Grant to outstanding researchers with the aim of consolidating their academic independence. The central criterion for funding is scientific excellence.
