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Priv.-Doz. Dr. Lana Kambeitz-Ilankovic obtained her PhD in 2013 at Ludwig-Maximilian University Munich in collaboration with the Institute of Psychiatry at King’s College London. She subsequently spent the majority of her postdoctoral training within the large multicenter EU project PRONIA, focusing on early detection and prediction of severe mental disorders.

In 2022, she completed her habilitation and obtained her clinical license in cognitive behavioral psychotherapy. Dr. Kambeitz-Ilankovic is the psychological head of the Early Recognition and Treatment Center (FETZ), where she has implemented short-term psychotherapeutic interventions and leads a transdiagnostic group therapy program (“Let’s FETZ”). She is also actively involved in student mental health initiatives at the University of Cologne, organization of Cologne-Bonn mental health week to reduce stigma and improve outreach or mental care.

Her research focuses on Digital Health, Personalized Clinical Psychology, and biobehavioral modeling, with a particular emphasis on developing neuroimaging-, neurocognitive-, and behavioral biomarkers to predict illness onset, long-term functional outcomes, and response to non-pharmacological and digital interventions. Her work integrates machine learning, computational modeling, and real-world clinical data to inform individualized prevention and psychotherapy strategies.

This research program has been supported by multiple competitive grants, including awards from the Brain & Behavior Research Foundation (NARSAD Young Investigator), the National Institutes of Health, DFG Co-Fund LMUexcellent, and the Friedrich-Baur Foundation. Dr. Kambeitz-Ilankovic has published over 60 peer-reviewed, highly cited articles aimed at improving diagnostic and therapeutic decision-making in mental health care.

She serves as a Handling Editor for the British Journal of Psychiatry and was awarded the DGPPN Prize for Personalized, Predictive, and Precision Psychiatry in 2021. In addition, she is actively engaged in public outreach and science communication, including educational media addressing severe mental disorders such as psychosis (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwZ9u9IbWLU).