Scientific career
Prof. Dr. Nora Maria Raschle’s background is in developmental cognitive and affective neuroscience. After completing her master studies at the University of Zurich, Prof. Raschle conducted her doctoral studies at the Laboratories of Cognitive Neuroscience and Children’s Hospital in Boston (USA). She defended her PhD thesis with the topic „Investigating neuronal and behavioral premarkers of developmental dyslexia prior to reading onset“ in 2011 at the University in Zurich and continued as a postdoctoral researcher at Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston. Starting in 2013, Prof. Raschle worked as a senior research scientist and neuroimaging group leader at the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry of the Psychiatric University Hospital Basel and University of Basel in Switzerland. Her work to date has focused on the investigation of typical and atypical brain development, with a particular focus on the early detection and characterization of developmental and mental health disorders through the use of structural and functional neuroimaging.
Areas of interest
(I) paediatric neuroimaging
(II) neural development
(III) brain structure, function and connectivity
(IV) socioemotional skills (emotion processing and emotion regulation)
(V) language and reading
(VI) learning, plasticity and resilience
Current position(s)
| 2019 - present | Assistant Professor of Psychology of Childhood and Adolescence at the Jacobs Center for Productive Youth Development at the University of Zurich, Switzerland Academic affiliation with the Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Clinics and University Hospital in Basel |
Previous positions
| 2013 – 2019 | Senior Research Scientist, Group Leader Neuroimaging, Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychiatric University Hospital and University of Basel, Switzerland |
| 2013 – 2018 | Consultant to the Gaab Laboratory at the Laboratories for Cognitive Neuroscience, Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA |
| 2011 – 2013 | Postdoctoral research fellow, Gaab Laboratory at the Laboratories for Cognitive Neuroscience, Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA |
| 2007 – 2011 | Doctoral candidate of the University of Zurich and visiting research scholar at Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School Boston, USA (group of Prof. N. Gaab) Master student/visiting scholar at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Centre and Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA (group of Prof. G. Schlaug) |
Education
| 2011 | PhD, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Zurich, Switzerland Supervisors: Prof. L. Jäncke (University of Zurich), Prof. N. Gaab (Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School Boston, USA) |
| 2007 | Licentiate/MSc in Psychology (focus Neuropsychology), Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Zurich, Switzerland |
Fellowships and awards
| 09/2023 | FENS-Kavli Network of Excellence Scholarship and elected Board Member 2023-2027. |
| 04/2022 | CRISP fellowship. Creating Impact Through Science Program; Jacobs Foundation. |
| 01/2017 | Jacobs Foundation Research Fellowship Award 2017-2019. |