Professional Experience

• Since 2025 Professor of Epidemiology at the Faculty of Health Sciences Brandenburg, Potsdam
• 2022-2025 Professor of Methods and Applications of Medical Biometry and Epidemiology, Witten/Herdecke University, Witten
• 2015-2022 Research associate in the Department of Molecular Epidemiology, Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz Association (MDC), Berlin
• 2014-2015 Research associate in the Department of Knowledge Construction, Leibniz Institute for Knowledge Media

University Education

• 2010–2014 PhD at the Centre for Population Health Sciences and Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland
• 2009–2010 MSc in Psychology of Individual Differences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland
• 2006–2009 BSc in Psychology, University of Dundee, Dundee, Scotland

Research Focus and Interests

• Epidemiology of mental illness
• Epidemiology of cognitive aging
• Metabolism
• Cognitive reserve
• Epidemiological methods

Memberships and Functions

• Spokesperson for Working Group 09 “Statistical Methods in Epidemiology” of the German Society for Epidemiology (DGEpi)
• Member of Working Group 14 “Neurological and Psychiatric Epidemiology” of the DGEpi
• Member of GMDS e.V.

Publications (Selection)

Feinkohl I, Janke J, Slooter AJC, Winterer G, Spies C, Pischon T. The Association of Plasma Leptin, Soluble Leptin Receptor and Total and High-Molecular Weight Adiponectin With the Risk of Perioperative Neurocognitive Disorders. Am J Geriatr Psychiatry. 2024 Sep;32(9):1119-1129.

Borchers F, Rumpel M, Laubrock J, Spies C, Kozma P, Slooter A, van Montfort SJT, Piper SK, Wiebach J, Winterer G, Pischon T, Feinkohl I. Cognitive reserve and the risk of postoperative neurocognitive disorders in older age. Front Aging Neurosci. 2024 Feb 5;15:1327388

Fislage M, Zacharias N, Feinkohl I. The Thalamus in Perioperative Neurocognitive Disorders. Neuropsychol Rev. 2023 Sep 22

Feinkohl I, Janke J, Slooter AJC, Winterer G, Spies C, Pischon T; BioCog Consortium. Metabolic syndrome and the risk of postoperative delirium and postoperative cognitive dysfunction: a multi-centre cohort study. Br J Anaesth. 2023;131(2):338-347.

Feinkohl I. Post-Operative Cognitive Impairment: A Cognitive Epidemiology Perspective. J Intell. 2022 Mar 11;10(1):18.

Feinkohl I*, Kozma P*, Borchers F, Montfort S, Kruppa J, Winterer G, Spies C, Pischon T. Contribution of IQ in young adulthood to the associations of education and occupation with cognitive ability in older age. BMC Geriatrics. 2021;5;21(1):346. *joint first

Feinkohl I, Janke J, Slooter AJC, Winterer G, Spies C, Pischon T. Plasma leptin, but not adiponectin, is associated with cognitive impairment in older adults. Psychoneuroendocrinology. 2020;120:104783.

Feinkohl I, Schipke CG, Kruppa J, Menne F, Winterer G, Pischon T, Peters O. Plasma Amyloid Concentration in Alzheimer’s Disease: Performance of a High-Throughput Amyloid Assay in Distinguishing Alzheimer’s Disease Cases from Controls. Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease. 2020;74(4):1285-1294.

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