Maximilian König
PhD candidate / guest
- Name
- M. König
- Telephone
- 071 5272727
- m.konig@fsw.leidenuniv.nl
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0001-7290-404X
Maximilian König is a PhD candidate and cognitive neuroscientist at the Institute of Education and Child Studies studying how social support can promote resilience in young people with a history of early-life adversity.”
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Short cv
Maximilian König is a cognitive neuroscientist studying how social support can promote resilience in young people with a history of early-life adversity. Specifically, he uses behavioral experiments, fMRI, and endocrinology to investigate whether friendships aid mental well-being through reducing neurobiological stress responses in this vulnerable population.
Before moving to the Netherlands, he worked as a Graduate Research Assistant & Lab Manager at New York University and the University of Oxford where he explored learning and decision-making processes across development.
He received his MSc in Cognitive Neuroscience from University College London and his BSc in Psychology from Goethe University Frankfurt.
Pronouns: he/him/his
Maximilian König – CV (August 2023)
PhD candidate / guest
- Social & Behavioural Sciences
- Education and Child Studies
- Forensic Fam. & Youth Care Studies
- Scheuplein M., Vermeulen S., van Harmelen A.L. & Alink L. (2023), Child maltreatment and victimization. In: , Brain and Crime. Handbook of clinical neurology no. 197. Amsterdam: Elsevier. 147-160.
- König M. & Harmelen A. van (2022), The importance of friendships in reducing brain responses to stress in adolescents exposed to childhood adversity: a preregistered systematic review, Current Opinion in Psychology 45: 101310.
- König M., Berhe O., Ioannidis K., Orellana S., Davidson E., Kaser M., Moreno-López L. & Harmelen A. van (2023), The stress-buffering role of friendships in young people with childhood threat experiences: a preliminary report, European Journal of Psychotraumatology 14(2): 2281971.
- König M. (25 September 2025), Friendship stress buffering in young people with childhood adversity (Dissertatie. Leiden Institute of Education and Child Studies, Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, Leiden University). Supervisor(s) and Co-supervisor(s): Harmelen A.L. van, Liem M.
- Vermeulen S., Scheuplein M., Harmelen A.L. van & Alink L.R.A. (2023), Kindermishandeling: Impact op slachtoffer en maatschappij. In: Doorn J. van, Brands J., Kunst M.J.J., Muller E.R., Pemberton A. & Reemst L. van (Eds.), Slachtoffers: onderzoek, beleid en praktijk . Deventer: Wolters Kluwer. 157-167.
- Wittmann M.K., Scheuplein M., Gibbons S.G. & Noonan M.P. (2023), Local and global reward learning in the lateral frontal cortex show differential development during human adolescence, PLoS Biology 21(3): e3002010.
- Nussenbaum K., Martin R.E., Maulhardt S., Yang Y., Bizzell-Hatcher G., Bhatt N.S., Koenig M., Rosenbaum G.M., O'Doherty J.P., Cockburn J. & Hartley C.A. (2023), Novelty and uncertainty differentially drive exploration across development, eLife 12: .
- Scheuplein M., Ahmed P.S., Foulkes L., Griffin C., Chierchia G. & Blakemore S. (2023), Perspective taking and memory for self- and town-related information in male adolescents and young adults, Cognitive Development 67: 101356.
- González-Garcia N., Buimer E.E., Moreno-López L., Sallie S.N., Váša F., Lim S., Romero-Garcia R., Scheuplein M., Whitaker K.J., Jones P.B., Dolan R.J., Fonagy P., Goodyer I., Bullmore E.T. & Harmelen A. van (2023), Resilient functioning is associated with altered structural brain network topology in adolescents exposed to childhood adversity, Development and Psychopathology : 1--11.
- Saragosa-Harris N.M., Chaku N., MacSweeney N., Williamson V.G., Scheuplein M., Feola B., Cardenas-Iniguez C., Demir-Lira E., McNeilly E.A., Huffman L.G., Whitmore L., Michalska K.J., Damme K.S., Rakesh D. & Mills K.L. (2022), A practical guide for researchers and reviewers using the ABCD Study and other large longitudinal datasets, Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience 55: 101115.
- Scheuplein M. & Harmelen A. van (2022), The importance of friendships in reducing brain responses to stress in adolescents exposed to childhood adversity: a preregistered systematic review, Current Opinion in Psychology 45: 101310.
- Nussenbaum K Scheuplein M Phaneuf CV Evans MD Hartley CA (2020), Moving Developmental Research Online: Comparing In-Lab and Web-Based Studies of Model-Based Reinforcement Learning, Collabra: Psychology 6(1): .