Dr. Steven Ngandeu Schepanski
Dr. Steven Ngandeu Schepanski is a psychologist, psychoneuroimmunology researcher, and psychotherapist in training at Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin. He currently works at the Charité Competence Center for Traditional and Integrative Medicine, where he contributes to clinical and translational research on stress, mental health, resilience, and prevention across the lifespan.
His work lies at the intersection of clinical psychology, neuroscience, immunology, and developmental medicine. He is particularly interested in how maternal health, stress, immune function, inflammation, and psychosocial factors during pregnancy shape child development, neurodevelopmental trajectories, immune maturation, and later mental health.
Dr. Ngandeu Schepanski completed his doctoral training in psychoneuroimmunology at the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf and the University of Hamburg. His doctoral research focused on the role of maternal microchimerism and prenatal stress in perinatal brain development and cognition. More broadly, his work examines how maternal and family health influence vulnerability and resilience in children and how improving maternal wellbeing may support healthier developmental outcomes.
Before joining Charité, he worked at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston, where he studied perinatal, genetic, and immunological influences on child brain development and mental health. His work combined molecular, immunological, and clinical approaches, including cell-based in vitro models, translational research methods, psychometric assessment, and advanced statistical modelling.
His current research focuses on mind body medicine, lifestyle and behavioral interventions, preventive mental health, and psychosocial support for children, adolescents, pregnant women, and families. He is particularly interested in how interventions that target stress regulation, resilience, and health-related behavior may influence both psychological wellbeing and biological processes such as immune function and inflammation.
Across his work, Dr. Ngandeu Schepanski combines expertise in clinical research, neuropsychology, psychoneuroimmunology, reproductive immunology, developmental science, and quantitative data analysis. He has worked in interdisciplinary settings that bring together psychology, medicine, immunology, neuroscience, obstetrics, pediatrics, and psychiatry.
Through his scientific and clinical work, he aims to contribute to a more integrative understanding of health that recognizes the close connections between mind, brain, immune function, and social context across development.