Research interests

  • Linking Third Mission with First Mission through implementation and evaluation of psychological aid projects in the context of social crises
  • Evidence-based personalised psychotherapy across the entire lifespan
  • Disorder focus: depression
  • Progression and intervention research
    • Modern integrative psychotherapy methods (e.g. Cognitive Behavioural Analysis System of Psychotherapy (CBASP), Interpersonal Psychotherapy (IPT), Well-Being Therapy (WBT))
    • Internet and app-based interventions
  • Practice-orientated research
    • Monitoring and feedback systems
  • Side effects of psychotherapy
  • Quantitative clinical psychology (e.g. through psychometric network models, ecological momentary assessment)
  • Augmentation of psychotherapy through stimulation methods (especially tDCS)
  • Neurourbanism

 

Vita

Academic career

Since 10/19 University Professor (W3) at the University of Greifswald, Chair of ... and Psychotherapy; Director of the Centre for Psychological Psychotherapy (ZPP)
05/16 - 09/19 University Professor (W2) at the Philipps University of Marburg, Endowed Professorship for Psychotherapy Research (donor: Schön Kliniken)
12/12 - 04/16 Professor of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy (focus on behavioural therapy) at the University of Applied Sciences (UAS) Berlin (PHB)
08/07 - 11/12 Psychological employee (ward psychologist and head of the working group 'Inpatient Psychotherapy Research') at the University Hospital Freiburg, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy (Prof. Dr. Mathias Berger)
01/10 - 04/13 Lecturer for the Bachelor's, Master's and Diploma programmes with Prof. Dr. Brunna Tuschen-Caffier, Institute of Psychology, Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg
10/04 - 07/07 Psychological assistant at the Charité University Medicine Berlin, Campus Benjamin Franklin (Prof. Dr. Isabella Heuser) in the field of affective disorders

Education

01/05 - 01/09 Dissertation (Dr. rer. nat.) at the Humboldt University of Berlin, supervisors: Prof. Dr. Norbert Kathmann and Prof. Dr. Malek Bajbouj

Scholarship holder of the German National Academic Foundation and associated member of the DFG Research Training Group (RTG) at the MPI for Human Development 'Psychiatry and Psychology of Ageing'

Topic: Optimisation of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) as a treatment for depression: Which factors predict response? Grade: magna cum laude
10/98 - 04/03 Study of psychology at the Free University of Berlin, qualification as Diplom-Psychologin (grade: 1.0) Diploma thesis at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin

Title: Depression in old age: Associations between social support and well-being (grade: 1.0)
10/95 - 10/98 Music studies at the Franz-Liszt-Hochschule für Musik, Weimar with qualification as a musician (main subject flute, diploma 11/1999)

(Postgraduate) education and continuous professional development, including admissions and accreditations

09/19 Certification in Well-Being Therapy by Prof. Dr. Giovanni Fava
07/15 Recognition as a supervisor (guideline procedure for behavioural therapy) by the State Office for Health and Social Affairs (LaGeSo) Berlin
11/08 Certification as therapist, supervisor and trainer for CBASP (Cognitive Behavioural Analysis System of Psychotherapy), including after two training workshops with Prof. Dr. James McCullough (Richmond, USA) in 2007 and 2008
11/08 Certification as therapist, supervisor and trainer for IPT (Interpersonal Psychotherapy)
09/07 Certification as a psychological psychotherapist (specialisation: behavioural therapy)
05/03 - 09/07 Training as a psychological psychotherapist at the German Society for Behavioural Therapy (DGVT), Berlin
04/02 - 04/03 Training in Conversational Psychotherapy according to C. Rogers with Prof. Dr. Anna Auckenthaler, Freie Universität Berlin
01/99 - 06/00 Further training in child and adolescent psychotherapy with Dr Fritz Jansen with a focus on ADHD in Hamburg and Berlin

Personal commitment to climate protection

  • First car purchase in 2019: electric car to be able to travel to the Institute of (over 10 km)
  • All other (long-distance) journeys by train
  • Max. one appointment flight per year, no more private flights
  • 100% vegetarian since August 1995; significant reduction in consumption of fish and dairy products since 2022
  • Green electricity and heating as well as solar cells on the roof in planning
  • Member of Psychologists/Psychotherapists for Future since 2023