Nils studied psychology at the University of Technology Chemnitz and obtained his PhD from the psychology department of Technische Universität Dresden. His work focuses on all things tempting, what we are willing to do in order to receive rewards in return, and how we learn to decide when to make an effort or not. During his PhD, he studied how metabolic feedback such as caloric intake regulates the brain response to images of palatable food. During his postdoc at TUD, he studied how dopamine affects action and reinforcement learning. Moreover, he did a postdoc at the John B. Pierce Laboratory at Yale University analyzing alterations of brain response to milkshake in obesity and dissecting the role of effort in shaping reward value. He now heads the junior research group on energy metabolism, the allocation of response vigor, and anhedonia. Nils studied psychology at the University of Technology Chemnitz and obtained his PhD from the psychology department of Technische Universität Dresden. His work focuses on all things tempting, what we are willing to do in order to receive rewards in return, and how we learn to decide when to make an effort or not. During his PhD, he studied how metabolic feedback such as caloric intake regulates the brain response to images of palatable food. During his postdoc at TUD, he studied how dopamine affects action and reinforcement learning. Moreover, he did a postdoc at the John B. Pierce Laboratory at Yale University analyzing alterations of brain response to milkshake in obesity and dissecting the role of effort in shaping reward value. He now heads the junior research group on energy metabolism, the allocation of response vigor, and anhedonia.

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