Michael Fassbender Siblings: Who is Catherine Fassbender?

Catherine Fassbender is the elder sister of Michael Fassbender and is a neuropsychologist. She is an Assistant Professor in Psychology at the School of Psychology, Dublin City University (DCU), and a member of the DCU Anti-Bullying Centre.

Dr. Catherine Fassbender, Ph.D., was born in Heidelberg, Germany in April 1977. Catherine went to Trinity College Dublin to study psychology and received her BA in Psychology from University College Dublin in 1999.

Within the Department of Psychology and Institute of Neuroscience at Trinity College Dublin, under the supervision of Professor Hugh Garavan and Professor Ian Robertson, she received a Graduate Diploma in Statistics in 2002 and a PhD in Cognitive Neuroscience in 2005.

Catherine Fassbender moved to the University of Maryland, Baltimore, USA, Department of Psychiatry, Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. In 2007, Dr. Fassbender accepted a position at the University of California, Davis MIND Institute and Department of Psychiatry within the Medical School in Sacramento, California, USA.

In 2008, Catherine Fassbender received a Klingenstein Third Generation Foundation Post-Doctoral Fellowship in ADHD. Catherine Fassbender became a member of the UC Davis MIND Institute faculty in 2012.

Catherine Fassbender received the Joe P. Tupin Research Award from the UC Davis Dept. Psychiatry in 2013 and was promoted to Associate Professor in Psychiatry in 2016. Dr. Fassbender joined the DCU School of Psychology in September 2019.

Catherine Fassbender is the Module Co-Ordinator for PSYC516 Advanced Psychological Research Methods and PSYC515 Specialist Review in Psychology and Wellbeing within the MSc in Psychology and Wellbeing.