Meike D. Hettwer (graduated in 2025)
Doctoral Candidate (MPSCog's doctoral candidates representative)
Academic education
| since 2020 |
Doctoral candidate, Max Planck School of Cognition, Leipzig, Germany Doctoral research performed at Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf & Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany, Supervisor: Simon B. Eickhoff and Sofie L. Valk Lab rotations in the orientation phase: Peter Falkai, David Poeppel, and Rosanne Rademaker |
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| 2018–2020 | Master of Science in Interdisciplinary Neuroscience, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, Germany |
| 2015–2018 | Bachelor of Science in Human Movement Science , Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Germany |
Scientific awards and scholarships
| 2019–2020 | Deutschlandstipendium, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, Germany & Merz Pharma |
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| 2019 | Valedictorian/graduation award, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Germany |
| 2019 | Valedictorian/graduation award , Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, Germany |
| 2018 | DAAD Scholarship |
| 2018 | Jasso Scholarship |
| 2017 | DAAD Promo scholarship |
| 2014 & 2015 | President's Honor Roll for outstanding students, Santa Barbara City College, USA |
Publications
Bittner, R. A., Barnes-Scheufler, C. V., Hettwer, M., Qubad, M., & Reif, A. (preprint). Pathophysiology and treatment of cognitive dysfunction in schizophrenia.
Valk, S., & Hettwer, M. D. (in press). Commentary on ‘Reproducible brain-wide association studies require thousands of individuals‘. Apuerto Neuro.
Bayrak, Ş., de Wael, R. V., Schaare, H. L., Hettwer, M. D., Caldairou, B., Bernasconi, A., […], & Valk, S. L. (2022). Heritability of hippocampal functional and microstructural organisation. NeuroImage, 264, 119656. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2022.119656
Hettwer, M. D., Lancaster, T. M., Raspor, E., Hahn, P. K., Mota, N. R., Singer, W., […], & Bittner, R. A. (2022). Evidence from imaging resilience genetics for a protective mechanism against schizophrenia in the ventral visual pathway. Schizophrenia Bulletin, 48(3), 551–562. https://doi.org/10.1093/schbul/sbab151
Hettwer, M. D., Larivière, S., Park, B. Y., van den Heuvel, O. A., […], Eickhoff, S. B., & Valk, S. L. (2022). Coordinated cortical thickness alterations across six neurodevelopmental and psychiatric disorders. Nature Communications, 13, 6851. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-34367-6
Hettwer, M. D., Larivi.re, S., […], Eickhoff, S. B., & Valk, S. L. (2022). Coordinated cortical thickness alterations across psychiatric conditions: A transdiagnostic ENIGMA study. Preprint published on medRxiv. https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.02.03.22270326
Hettwer, M. D., Saberi, A., Fan, Y. S., & Valk, S. L. (2022). Schizophrenia and macroscale brain structure: Genes in context. Biological Psychiatry, 92(4), 258–260. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsych.2022.06.010
Park, B. Y., Kebets, V., Larivière, S., Hettwer, M. D., Paquola, C., van Rooij, D., […], & Bernhardt, B. C. (2022). Multiscale neural gradients reflect transdiagnostic effects of major psychiatric conditions on cortical morphology. Communications Biology, 5(1), 1024. https://doi. org/10.1038/s42003-022-03963-z
Richie-Halford, A., Cieslak, M., Ai, L., Caffarra, S., et al. (2022). An analysis-ready and quality controlled resource for pediatric brain white-matter research. Scientific Data, 9, 616. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-022-01695-7 (Hettwer, M. D. is consortium bona fide author)
Sanfelici, R., Ruef, A., Antonucci, L. A., Penzel, N., Sotiras, A., Dong, M. S., Urquijo-Castro, M., Wenzel, J., Kambeitz-Ilankovic, L, Hettwer, M. D., […], & PRONIA Consortium. (2022). Novel gyrification networks reveal links with psychiatric risk factors in early illness. Cerebral Cortex, 32(8), 1625–1636. https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhab288
Krüger, B., Hettwer, M., Zabicki, A., de Haas, B., Munzert, J., Zentgraf, K. (2020). Practice modality of motor sequences impacts the neural signature of motor imagery. Scientific Reports, 10, 19176. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-76214-y
Poster presentations and talks
Hettwer, M. D. (2022, June). Coordinated cortical thickness alterations across mental disorders: A transdiagnostic ENIGMA study [Talk]. 28th Annual Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping (OHBM), Glasgow, UK.
Hettwer, M. D. (2022, June). Coordinated cortical thickness alterations across mental disorders: A transdiagnostic ENIGMA study [Poster]. 28th Annual Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping (OHBM), Glasgow, UK.
Hettwer, M. D. (2022, June). Transdiagnostic gradients capture coordinated cortical thickness alterations across mental disorders [Invited talk]. Pre-OHBM Workshop “Gradients of Brain Organization“, Cambridge, UK.
Photo: Anja Schneider