Katharina Schmack

Katharina Schmack

Katharina Schmack received her medical and doctoral degrees from Charité, Berlin in 2009. She then completed her postdoctoral training, clinical scientist fellowship and psychiatry specialization at Charité, Berlin. In 2018, she was awarded a research fellowship from the German National Academy of Sciences, Leopoldina, and joined Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, New York, as a research investigator. In 2021, she opened her own lab at the Francis Crick Institute, London. Her appointment is shared with University College London and the North London NHS Foundation Trust, where she is part of a multidisciplinary team providing care for people with severe mental illness.

Her research focuses on psychosis. Her group investigates the neural circuits and immune processes giving rise to hallucinations and other psychotic symptoms. Using a cross-species approach, they study both patients and mice with behavioural tests, computational models, and in-vivo measures and manipulations.