Funding
Third-party funding
2025 – 2027
Research Project funded by the von Behring-Röntgen-Stiftung: Dysfunctional efference copy mechanisms in schizophrenia: investigating effects on behaviour and neural mechanisms across space and time (72_0003)
Volume: €100,000 | PI: Dr. Yifei He with Prof. Dr. Bianca van Kemenade (Giessen)
2024 – 2027
DFG-funded Individual Research Grant: The predictive coding account of schizophrenia: Dysfunctional interaction across linguistic levels (HE8029/5-1)
Volume (own share): €227,000 | PI: Dr. Yifei He with Dr. Lars Meyer (MPI CBS Leipzig / University of Münster)
2019 – 2024
DFG-funded Individual Research Grant: Multistage integration during co-speech gesture integration: a systematic investigation combining EEG and fMRI (HE8029/2-1)
Volume: €250,000 | PI: Dr. Yifei He, co-PI: Prof. Dr. Benjamin Straube
Intramural funding
2025 – 2027
Intramural Research Project 'DigiStrucMed' funded by Hannover Medical School: Can the machine detect information we cannot? Developing an algorithm that can diagnose patients with functional tic-like movement disorder using machine learning
Volume: €9,800 | PI: Prof. Dr. Kirsten Müller-Vahl, Prof. Dr. Lars Schmidt-Thieme | Co-PIs: Dr. Simon Schmidt, Johannes Burchert, Dr. Yifei He
2024 – 2026
Mini-Grant funded by LOEWE (DYNAMIC): Use of NLP Models to Analyze Linguistic Patterns and Their Relationship to Depression: A Longitudinal Investigation of Symptom Trajectories
Volume: €10,000 | PIs: Katrin Leinweber, Dr. Frederike Stein, Dr. Yifei He
2024 – 2026
Cooperation Research Project funded by University Hospital Giessen Marburg (UKGM): The role of N-methyl-D-aspartate glutamate receptor (NMDAR) during sensory and semantic prediction in schizophrenia: a cross-sectional EEG investigation on brain oscillations
Volume: €116,000 | PI: Dr. Yifei He | Co-PIs: Prof. Dr. Arne Nagels (Mainz), Prof. Dr. Christoph Mulert (Giessen)
2020 – 2022
Cooperation Research Project funded by University Hospital Giessen Marburg (UKGM): Developing and investigating the neurobiological basis for social-cognitive intervention programme for patients with schizophrenia
Volume: €104,000 | PI: Dr. Florian Bitsch | Co-PIs: Dr. Yifei He, Prof. Dr. Benjamin Straube