Dr. rer. nat. Peng Liu

Dr. rer. nat. Peng Liu

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Postdoctoral Researcher @ AG Translational Imaging of Cortical Microstructure, Hertie-Institut für klinische Hirnforschung

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2025

December 2025 Hertie Network of Excellence in Clinical Neuroscience Fellowship received

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I’m very excited to share the good news that I have received a three-year fellowship with Hertie Network of Excellence in Clinical Neuroscience, base at the site of Hertie Institute for Clinical Brain Research. I will be receiving research fundings from Gemeinnützige Hertie-Stiftung to support my research on age-related brain plasticity changes underlying long-term somato symptoms, and investigate the feasibility of self-intervention in aging group. This is a great step forward for me to develop into an independent researcher, and learn from the senior scientists.

November 2025 China-Europe Outstanding Young Scientist Award received

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I’m very honoured to receive 2025 China Europe Outstanding Young Scientist Award by China-Europe Scientists Forum. As a kid, being a ‘scientist’ always sound so far away, yet now I am called a scientist on many occasions. It is a nice feeling, I must say. And it will for sure encourage me to pursue more in my research field.

October 2025 Attempto-Preis Awarded

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I’m incredibly honoured and excited to share the great news, that I am awarded the Attempto-Preis 2025! This prize is awarded to junior scientists for outstanding achievements in the neurosciences - to date some of the awardees are distinguished experts in medicine and biology. The recognition is for our recently published paper, “Layer-specific changes in sensory cortex across the life span in mice and humans.” at Nature Neuroscience. It truly is a career highlight. This award should also be shared with my great colleague and co-first author of the paper, Dr. Juliane Doehler, for the fantastic team work and dedication that made this research possible. Looking forward to what comes next!

2024

November 2024 PhD Thesis Defense Success

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On 12th November 2024, I successfully passed the PhD thesis defense with Summa cum laude grade, with the thesis title ‘Age-related changes in the architecture of human primary somatosensory cortex’.

February 2024 Grant received

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In Feburary 2024, I was approved the Brain Sciences 2024 Travel Award by MDPI to present a poster on “A layer-specific model on cortical sensory aging” at the OHBM 2024 in Seoul, South Korea.

2022

October 2022 CBBS Paper of the Year Award 2021 received

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In October 2022, I was awarded with the CBBS Paper of the Year Award 2021 worth 500 Euros, for my 2021 first-author eLife paper “The organizational principles of de-differentiated cortical maps in somatosensory cortex”.