Professor Sterzer studied medicine at the Ludwig Maximilian University Munich and at the Harvard Medical School and obtained his MD in 2001. He habilitated in Experimental Psychiatry at the Charité Berlin. He is board certified in Neurology and Psychiatry. From 2011 he was Professor of Psychiatry and Computational Neuroscience at the Charité and since 2022 he holds position of Professor of Translational Psychiatry, University of Basel, and Chief Physician, Zentrum für Diagnostik und Krisenintervention, Universitäre Psychiatrische Kliniken Basel. His research focuses on predictive coding and computational psychiatry.

There has been an increasing interest in theory-driven computational approaches towards explaining psychiatric disorders in recent years. Philipp will present a Bayesian predictive processing account of psychosis and empirical evidence from recent behavioral, neuroimaging and pharmacological intervention studies supporting this account. Moreover, he will discuss potential implications of such a theory-driven approach for the development of biological and psychological treatments.