Dr. Hendrik Heinbockel

04/2025 – 06/2025   Visiting researcher, Stanford Memory Lab (Anthony Wagner), University of Stanford, California, USA

Seit 08/2024                Post-doc, Cognitive Psychology, University of Hamburg

08/2024                       Promotion zum Dr. rer. nat. , Kognitionspsychologie, Universität Hamburg,                               
                                        On the Trail of Memory Traces: How Stress Affects Initial Memory Formation and Updating Processes

09/2019  -                  

08/2024                      PhD Student, Department of Cognitive Psychology, University of Hamburg

2017 – 2019                 Master of Science Neurocognitive Psychology, University of Oldenburg

Master Thesis             Investigating tACS Effects on Directed Functional Networks

2014 – 2017                  Bachelor's degree in Psychology, University of Hamburg

Bachelor Thesis          Graph Analysis of Brain Efficiency under Stress during aDecision-Making Task in fMRI

Awards and third-party funding

In-kind support from the Ideas and Venture Fund financed by Universität Hamburg's Excellence Strategy.

Membership in scientific organizations

German Society for Psychology (DGPs)

- Division of Biological Psychology and Neuropsychology

Heinbockel, H., Leicht, G., Wagner, A. D., & Schwabe, L. (in press). Post-retrieval noradrenergic activation impairs subsequent memory depending on cortico-hippocampal reactivation. eLife.

Heinbockel, H., Wagner, A. D., & Schwabe, L. (2024). Post-retrieval stress impairs subsequent memory depending on hippocampal memory trace reinstatement during reactivation. Science Advances, 10, eadm7504.

Grob, A. M., Heinbockel, H., Milivojevic, B., Doeller, C. F., & Schwabe, L. (2024). Causal role of the angular gyrus in insight-driven memory reconfiguration. Elife, 12, RP91033.

Heinbockel, H., Quaedflieg, C. W. E. M., Wacker, J., & Schwabe, L. (2022). Spatio-temporal theta pattern dissimilarity in the right centro-parietal area during memory generalization. Brain and Cognition, 164, 105926.

Heinbockel, H., Quaedflieg, C. W. E. M., Schneider, T. R., Engel, A. K., & Schwabe, L. (2021). Stress enhances emotional memory-related theta oscillations in the medial temporal lobe. Neurobiology of Stress, 15, 100.

Memory processes and their modulation (e.g. by stress, TMS, pharmacological)

Neuronal imaging

Network analysis and neuronal connectivity