Agorastos, Agorastos
2nd Department of Psychiatry
UNDERGRADUATE STUDIES
1999 - 2006 Medical Degree (MD)
Medical University of Vienna, Austria
POSTGRADUATE STUDIES
since 2018 Doctoral Degree (PhD)
Dept. of Psychiatry, University of Maastricht, Netherlands (ongoing)
2015 - 2016 International Master in Affective Neuroscience (MSc)
University of Maastricht, Netherlands & University of Florence, Italy. Master Thesis: „Soldier’s heart revisited: Diurnal autonomic dysregulation in battle-related PTSD“
PhD STUDIES
since 2018 Doctoral Degree (PhD)
Dept. of Psychiatry, University of Maastricht, Netherlands (ongoing)
2007 - 2010 Doctoral Degree (PhD)
Dept. of Psychiatry & Center of Interdisciplinary Addiction Research, University of Hamburg, Germany. Thesis: „Evaluation of addiction services in Cyprus“ (magna cum laude)
POSTDOCTORAL STUDIES / FELLOWSHIPS
2012 - 2014 Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (Postdoc)
Laboratory for Biological Psychiatry, University Medical Center Hamburg, Germany
2011 - 2012 Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (Postdoc)
VA Center of Excellence for Stress and Mental Health, UCSD, La Jolla, CA, USA
ADDITIONAL DEGREES
2015 Professorial Thesis (Habilitation)
University of Hamburg, Germany. Professorial Thesis: „The role of the serotonergic system and traumatic stress in autonomic (re)activity: Findings on heart rate variability“