Daniel Senkowski

I am a Professor of Clinical Neuropsychology in the Department of Psychiatry and Neurosciences at Charité Berlin. I lecture, supervise neuropsychological assessments, treat patients, and lead the Multisensory Integration Research Group.

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Academic background

2020:

Approbation in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Berliner Fortbildungsakademie

2016:

Supervision of Neuropsychological Assessments, Charité Berlin

2015-:

Head of the Computational Neuroimaging Division, Charité Berlin

2012-:

Professor of Clinical Neuropsychology, Charité Berlin

2011-:

Head of the Research Group Multisensory Integration, Charité Berlin

2010:

Habilitation and venia legendi in Psychology, University of Hamburg

2006 – 2011:

Head of the Research Group Elektroencephalography, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf

2005 – 2006:

Adjunct Professorship, Department of Psychology, City College of New York, USA

2004 – 2006:

Postdoctoral fellow, Nathan S. Kline Institute für Psychiatric Research, Orangeburg, NY

2004:

Ph.D., Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig

2002 – 2003:

Visiting researcher, Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, Duke University, North Carolina

2000:

Diploma in Psychology, Free University Berlin

Grants as Principle Investigator

Since 2023:

„Working memory dysfunction in schizophrenia: an investigation of multivariate activation pattern and neural synchrony“, Co-Investigators: Paul Sauseng (LMU Munich) and Radoslaw Cichy (FU Berlin); German Research Foundation

Since 2023:

„Examining the neural network dynamics underlying the temporal window of crossmodal perception“,
Co-Investigator: Tim Rohe (FAU Erlangen-Nurnberg); German Research Foundation

2016 – 2020:

„Role of aberrant neural oscillations for multisensory processing deficits in schizophrenia“;
German Research Foundation

2014 – 2017:

„Neural signatures of intersensory selective attention: investigating the role of neural synchrony and functional network properties“,
Co-Investigator: Julian Keil (Kiel University); German Research Foundation

2014 – 2016:

„Analysis and Visualization of Neural Oscillations in Electrocorticographic Signals“,
Co-PI: Thomas Thesen (NYU); National Institute of Health and Federal Ministry of Education and Research

2011 – 2016:

„The multisensory mind: from neural mechanisms to cognition“,
ERC Starting Grant, European Research Council

2008 – 2013:

„Multisensory processing of pain: An investigation of neural binding mechanisms in electrophysiological and hemodynamic brain responses“,
Co-Investigators: Michael Hauck, Andreas K. Engel (UKE Hamburg); German Research Foundation

2010:

„Examining speech processing in bilateral cochlear implant users“,
Young Investigator Research Fund of the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf

Grants as Co-Investigator

Since 2026:

„Circuit mechanisms and biomarkers for youth mental health „,
PI: Peter J. Uhlhaas (Charité Berlin); Einstein Center Youth Mental Health, Einstein Foundation

Since 2022:

„Neural signatures of contextual memory in post-traumatic stress disorder“,
PI: James Moran (Charité Berlin); German Research Foundation

2014 – 2016:

„Predicting the multisensory future: Role of neuronal connectivity for integrative information processing across modalities“,
PI: Julian Keil (University of Kiel); German Research Foundation

2011 – 2012:

„Multisensory form processing in extrastriate visual cortex“,
PI: John J. Foxe (University of Rochester); RO1, National Science Foundation

2004 – 2008:

„The neurophysiology of multisensory integration“,
PI: John J. Foxe; RO1, National Institute of Mental Health

2004 – 2007:

„Electrophysiological correlates of cognitive processes: ERP and fMRI studies of the early pre-attentive mechanisms by which the auditory system organizes auditory information“,
Co-Applicant: John J. Foxe; RO1, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke

Awards

2017:

Replication Study Award of the Berlin Institute of Health, Multisensory Research article
„Individual alpha frequency relates to the sound-induced flash illusion“
by Keil and Senkowski

2010:

Best Paper of the Year, Spanish Society for Experimental Psychology, TICS article
„The multifaceted interplay between attention and multisensory integration“
by Talsma, Senkowski, Soto-Faraco, Woldorff

2006:

NARSAD Young Investigator Award, Project:
„The Cocktail Party Phenomenon in Schizophrenia“,
Brain & Behavior Research Foundation

Teaching

Since 2011:

Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Charité – University Medicine Berlin
Lectures: Neural Plasticity; Cognitive Neuroscience
Seminars: Learning and Memory; Further lectures
Practical Courses: Physical Exercise; Neuropsychological Assessments

2012 – 2015:

Department of Psychology, Free University of Berlin
Seminars: Neurocognitive Psychology; Experimental Psychology: Attention and Perception
Practical Course: Empirical Practicum

2008 – 2011:

Department of Biological Psychology and Neuropsychology, University of Hamburg
Lectures: Introduction to Cognitive Neuroscience; Methods of Cognitive Neuroscience

2006 – 2011:

Department of Neurophysiology and Pathophysiology, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf
Seminars: Neurophysiology; Vegetative Physiology; Learning; Hearing Impairments and Deafness
Practical Courses: Electroencephalography; Vertigo and Deafness; Sensory Function of Skin and Pain; Nerves and Muscles; EMG and Reflexes
Review Course: Visual System

2005 – 2006:

Department of Psychology, City College of New York, USA
Seminars: Advanced Experimental Design; The Synaptic Self

📌 Selected articles

Multisensory integration

Senkowski D, Engel AK. 2024. Multi-timescale neural dynamics for multisensory integration. Nature Reviews Neuroscience. 25:625-642. (📥)

Michail G, Senkowski D, Niedeggen M, Keil J. 2021. Memory load alters perception-related oscillations during multisensory integration. Journal of Neuroscience. 41:1505-1515. (📥)

Keil J, Senkowski D. 2018. Neural oscillations orchestrate multisensory processing. Neuroscientist. 6:609-626. (📥)

Balz J, Keil J, Roa Romero Y, Mekle R, Schubert F, Aydin S, Ittermann B, …, Senkowski D. 2016. GABA concentration in superior temporal sulcus predicts gamma power and perception in the sound-induced flash illusion. Neuroimage. 125:724-730. (📥)

Talsma D, Senkowski D, Soto-Faraco S, Woldorff MG. 2010. The multifaceted interplay between attention and multisensory integration. Trends in Cognitive Sciences. 14:400-410. (📥)

Senkowski D, Schneider TR, Foxe JJ, Engel AK. 2008. Crossmodal binding through neural coherence: implications for multisensory processing. Trends in Neurosciences. 8:401-409. (📥)

Neural signatures of schizophrenia

Moran JK and Senkowski D. 2025. Intersensory attention deficits in schizophrenia relate to ongoing sensorimotor beta oscillations. Schizophrenia 19. (📥)

Senkowski D and Moran JK. 2022. Early evoked brain activity underlies auditory and audiovisual speech recognition deficits in schizophrenia. Neuroimage:Clinical. 33, 102909. (📥)

Moran JK, Keil J, Masurovsky A, Gutwinski S, Montag C, Senkowski D. 2021. Multisensory processing can compensate for top-down attention deficits in schizophrenia. Cerebral Cortex. 31:5536-5548. (📥)

Moran JK, Michail G, Heinz A, Keil J, Senkowski D. 2019. Long-Range Temporal Correlations in Resting State Beta Oscillations are Reduced in Schizophrenia. Frontiers in Psychiatry. 10:517. (📥)

Roa Romero Y, Keil J, Balz J, Gallinat J, Senkowski D. 2016. Reduced frontal theta oscillations indicate altered crossmodal prediction error processing in schizophrenia. Journal of Neurophysiology. 116:1396-1407. (📥)

Senkowski D, Gallinat J. 2015. Dysfunctional prefrontal gamma-band oscillations reflect working memory and other cognitive deficits in schizophrenia. Biological Psychiatry. 77:1010-1019. (📥)

⚡Crossmodal processing of pain

Senkowski D, Heinz A. 2016. Chronic pain and distorted body image: Implications for multisensory feedback interventions. Neuroscience Biobehavioral Reviews. 69:252-259. (📥)

Senkowski D, Höfle M, Engel AK. 2014. Crossmodal shaping of pain: a multisensory approach to nociception. Trends in Cognitive Sciences. 18:319-327. (📥)

Höfle M, Hauck M, Engel AK, Senkowski D. 2012. Viewing a needle pricking a hand that you perceive as yours enhances unpleasantness of pain. Pain. 153:1074-1081. (📥) (Press release & Scientific American podcast)

Senkowski D, Kautz J, Hauck M, Zimmermann R, Engel AK. 2011 Emotional facial expressions modulate pain-induced beta and gamma oscillations in sensorimotor cortex. Journal of Neuroscience. 31:14542-14550. (📥)

Other topics

Senkowski D, Ziegler T, Singh M, Heinz A, He J, Silk T, Lorenz RC. 2024. Assessing inhibitory control deficits in adult ADHD: A systematic review and meta-analysis of the stop-signal task. Neuropsychology Review. 34:548-567. (📥) (Press release)

Senkowski D, Sobirey R, Haslacher D, Soekadar SR. 2022. Boosting working memory: uncovering the differential effects of tDCS and tACS. Cerebral Cortex Communications. 3:tgac018. (📥)

Speer L, Schuler M, Keil J, Moran JK, Pantazidis P, Amelung T, Florack J, Beier KM, Senkowski D. 2022. Sexual preference for prepubescent children is associated with enhanced processing of child faces in juveniles. European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry. 31:261-274. (📥)

Senkowski D, Pomper U, Fitzner I, Engel AK, Kral A. 2014. Beta-band activity in auditory pathways reflects speech localization and recognition in bilateral cochlear implant users. Human Brain Mapping. 35:3107-3121. (📥)

Books and book chapter

Keil J and Senkowski D (2019) Neural network dynamics and audiovisual integration. In: Springer Handbook of Auditory Research on Multisensory Processes. Editor: Wallace M. (📥)

Senkowski D and Engel AK (2012). Oscillatory activity and multisensory processing. In: The New Handbook of Multisensory Processes. MIT Press. Editor: Stein BE. MIT Press. p. 193-205. (📥)

Talsma D, Senkowski D, Soto-Faraco S, Woldorff MG (2012). Influences of top-down attention on multisensory processing. The New Handbook of Multisensory Processes. MIT Press. Editor: Stein BE, p. 371-381. (📥)

Engel AK, Senkowski D, Schneider TR (2012). Multisensory integration through neural coherence. In: Frontiers in the Neural Bases of Multisensory Processing. Editors: Murray MM and Wallace MT. CRC Press, Chapter 7, p. 115-130. (📥)

Editorial work

Since 2013:

Review Editor, Frontiers in Neuropsychiatric Imaging and Stimulation

Since 2010:

Scientific Review Associate, European Journal of Neuroscience

2009:

Guest Editor, Experimental Brain Research, Special Issue on Crossmodal Processing,
Volume 198, Numbers 2–3 (September 2009)

Since 2008:

Review Editor, Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience

Ad hoc reviewer
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Additional reviews have been provided for various national and international funding organisations (not listed here for confidentiality reasons)