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The MH-TRN network comprises 23 main investigators, and more than 220 researchers from the Universität Hamburg (UHH), the University Medical Centre Hamburg (UKE), and the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin (MPIB).
Here you can get to know our researchers better.

Petra Arck
Prof. Dr. med. Dr. h.c.

University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE), Centre for Obstetrics and Fetal Medicine, Laboratory for Experimental Feto-maternal Medicine
Current position
Professor for Experimental Feto-Maternal Medicine at UKE, head of Laboratory

Contact
Tel.: +49 (0) 40 7410 – 51998
Mail: p.arck@uke.de

FURTHER INFORMATION

Role within partner site
Principal investigator within research area of Basic Research

Relevant Work experience
Since 2018 Dean of research, Medical Faculty Hamburg
Since 2010 Professor (W3) and Head of Division for Experimental
Feto-Maternal Medicine, UKE
2008-2010 Canada Research Chair and Professor for Neuroimmunology,
McMaster University Hamilton, Canada
2006-2010 Professor (W2) for Psychoneuroimmunology, University
Medicine Berlin, Germany (leave of absence from 2008)
2001-2006 Group Leader, Charité, University Medicine Berlin, Germany
2001 Habilitation in Immunology and Experimental

Main research focus
Developmental origin of health and disease; effect of maternal stress perception and adverse environmental conditions on pregnancy maintenance, fetal development and long-term children’s health

Publications

  1. Zazara DE, Wegmann M, Giannou AD, Hierweger AM, Alawi M, Thiele K, Huber S, Pincus M, Muntau AC, Solano ME, Arck PC (2020). A prenatally disrupted airway epithelium orchestrates the fetal origin of asthma in mice. J Allergy Clin Immunol 145(6):1641-1654.
    → https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32305348/
  2.  Schepanski S, Buss C, Hanganu-Opatz IL, Arck PC (2018). Prenatal Immune and Endocrine Modulators of Offspring’s Brain Development and Cognitive Functions Later in Life. Front Immunol 26;9:2186.
    → https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fimmu.2018.02186/full
  3. Kinder JM, Stelzer IA, Arck PC, Way SS (2017). Immunological implications of pregnancy induced microchimerism. Nat Rev Immunol 17(8):483-494.
    → https://www.nature.com/articles/nri.2017.38.pdf?origin=ppub
  4. Solano ME, Kowal MK, O’Rourke GE, Horst AK, Modest K, Plösch T, Barikbin
    R, Remus CC, Berger RG, Jago C, Ho H, Sass G, Parker VJ, Lydon JP,
    DeMayo FJ, Hecher K, Karimi K, Arck PC (2015). Progesterone and HMOX-1
    promote fetal growth by CD8+ T cell modulation. J Clin Invest
    125(4):1726-38.
    → https://www.jci.org/articles/view/68140
  5. Arck PC, Hecher K (2013). Fetomaternal immune cross-talk and its consequences for maternal and offspring’s health. Nat Med 19(5):548-56.
    → https://www.nature.com/articles/nm.3160?page=1


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Additional information
2020 Coordinator, Research Network ‘Pregnancy-acquired health and disease
2017 Editor, Seminars in Immunopathology
2016 Roesslin Award, German Society for Obstetrics and Gynecology
Since 2015 Speaker of the Clinical Research Unit 296
2014 Blackwell Munksgaard Award
2013 Doctor honoris causa, University of Pécs, Hungary
2009 Banting Discovery Award, Canada
2008 Canada Funds for Innovation

Peer Briken
Prof. Dr. med.

University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE), Centre for Psychosocial Medicine, Department for Sex Research & Sexual Medicine and Forensic Psychiatry
Current position
W3-Professor and Director, Institute for Sex Research, Sexual Medicine,
and Forensic Psychiatry

Contact
Tel.: +49 (0) 40 7410 – 52225
Mail: briken@uke.de

FURTHER INFORMATION

Role within partner site
Principal investigator in research area Clinical Research

Relevant Work experience
2020 Head, Center for Psychosocial Medicine, UKE
Since 2013 Spokesman of the Interdisciplinary Transgender Health
Care Center Hamburg
2010 Chair, Institute for Sex Research, Sexual Medicine, and
Forensic Psychiatry
2006 Habilitation in Psychiatry and Psychotherapy
1998-2006 Postdoctoral research fellow, Department of Human
Medicine, Universität Hamburg

Main research focus
Prevention of sexual and general violence; risk assessment; diagnosis
of forensically relevant (e.g. paraphilic disorders, psychopathy) and
sexual disorders (compulsive sexual behaviour disorder); sexual health;
sexual medicine

Publications

  1. Briken P, Matthiesen S, Pietras L, Wiessner C, Klein V, Reed GM, Dekker A (2020): Estimating the prevalence of sexual dysfunction using the new ICD-11 guide lines—results of the first representative, population-based German Health and Sexuality Survey (GeSiD). Dtsch Arztebl Int 117: 653–8.
    →https://www.aerzteblatt.de/int/archive/article/215864/Estimating-the-prevalence-of-sexual-dysfunction-using-the-new-ICD-11-guidelines-results-of-the-first-representative-population-based-German-Health-and-Sexuality-Survey-(GeSiD)
  2. Briken P (2020). An integrated model to assess and treat compulsive sexual behaviour disorder. Nat Rev Urol 17(7):391-406.
    → https://www.nature.com/articles/s41585-020-0343-7
  3. Thibaut F, Cosyns P, Fedoroff JP, Briken P, Goethals K, Bradford JMW (2020). WFSBP Task Force on Paraphilias. The World Federation of Societies of Biological Psychiatry (WFSBP) 2020 guidelines for the pharmacological treatment of paraphilic disorders. World J Biol Psychiatry 21(6):412-490.
    →https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15622975.2020.1744723?casa_token=vHgIwpE6Ct0AAAAA%3ALeudfj0UPJsIqmFsL-Ow312aKbt6-Xz4_77GJulzsPrFigtFXwmQynJNdxVd2OtVM-Lnuu0DXmXg
  4. Briken P, Boetticher A, Krueger RB, Kismödi E, Reed GM (2019). Current Legal Situation for Patients with Paraphilic disorders and Implications of the ICD-11 for Paraphilic Disorders for Germany. J Sex Med 16(10):1615-1622.
    →https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S174360951931313X?casa_token=dGKqAK8zmEEAAAAA:t02C2X740lq-UO583AKg69f6QvXBQ802-eIfUWA-E-VUz8mlrvXvJY0hlu2dQcG-0WgThXTHXg
  5. Reed GM, Drescher J, Krueger RB, Atalla E, Cochran SD, First MB, Cohen-Kettenis PT, Arango-de Montis I, Parish SJ, Cottler S, Briken P, Saxena S (2016). Disorders related to sexuality and gender identity in the ICD-11: revising the ICD-10 classification based on current scientific evidence, best clinical  practices, and human rights considerations. World Psychiatry 15(3):205-221.
    →https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/wps.20354

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Additional information
2020 Hamburg Award Personality Disorder; German Society for the Research and Therapy of Personality Disorders (GePs) e.V.
Since 2016 Member of the Commission on the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse in Germany
Since 2014 Consultant for the WHO ICD-11 Working Group on the Classification of Sexual Disorders and Sexual Health
2014 Fellow of the European Society for Sexual Medicine (ESSM)
2013-2016 Vice-president of the International Association for the Treatment of Sexual Offenders (IATSO)
2010-2016 President of the German Society for Sex Research

Christian Büchel
Prof. Dr. med.

University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE), Centre for Experimental Medicine, Department of Systems Neuroscience
Current position
Full professor (W3), Director Department of Systems Neuroscience Adjunct professor, Department of Psychology, Hamburg University

Contact
Tel.: +49 (0) 40 7410 – 54726
Mail: buechel@uke.de

FURTHER INFORMATION

Role within partner site
Principal investigator within research area of Basic Research

Relevant Work experience
2013-2014 Research Fellow, Department of Psychology, Stanford University, USA
Since 2005 Full professor and Director Dep. of Systems Neuroscience,
Universität Hamburg
2000-2005 Head of Junior Research Group funded by the Volkswagenstiftung,
Dep. Of Neurology, Universität Hamburg
1995-1999 Wellcome Trust Research Fellow at the Wellcome Department
of Cognitive Neurology, Institute of Neurology, UCL
1994-1995 Training in Clinical Neurology, Dep. of Neurology, University of Essen

Main research focus
Treatment expectation; hedonic processing; mechanisms of addiction;
mechanisms of acute and chronic pain; emotion regulation; fear and
fear learning

Publications

  1. Buchel C, Miedl S, Sprenger C (2018). Hedonic processing in humans is mediated by an opioidergic mechanism in a mesocorticolimbic system. eLife 7.
    → https://elifesciences.org/articles/39648
  2. Onat S, Büchel C (2015) The neuronal basis of fear generalization in humans. Nature Neurosci 18:1811–1818.
    → https://www.nature.com/articles/nn.4166/
  3. Büchel C, Peters J, Banaschewski T, Bokde ALW, Bromberg U, Conrod PJ, Flor H, Papadopoulos D, Garavan H, Gowland P, Heinz A, Walter H, Ittermann B, Mann K, Martinot J-L, Paillère-Martinot M-L, Nees F, Paus T, Pausova Z, Poustka L, Rietschel M, Robbins TW, Smolka MN, Gallinat J, Schumann G, Knutson B, IMAGEN consortium (2017.) Blunted ventral striatal responses to anticipated rewards foreshadow problematic drug use in novelty-seeking
    adolescents. Nat Commun 8:14140.
    → https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms14140
  4. Etkin A, Büchel C, Gross JJ. The neural bases of emotion regulation (2015). Nature Reviews Neurosci 16:693–700.
    → https://www.nature.com/articles/nrn4044
  5. Brassen S, Gamer M, Peters J, Gluth S, Büchel C (2012). Don’t look back in anger! Responsiveness to missed chances in successful and nonsuccessful aging. Science 336:612–614.
    →https://science.sciencemag.org/content/336/6081/612.abstract?casa_token=NnFEbMk7VDEAAAAA:WHP2fBrF8q42R6VnfEpOCAJUyH9fy5GPEVLL_gc29kkAUihcKtcINUO1UGgoCPc5X3iQVj7h65Hi7g

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Additional information
2021-2025 ERC advanced grant PainPersist
Since 2019 Fellow Max Planck School of Cognition
Since 2019 Senior Editor for eLife
2018 Scientific Award European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA)
2011-2015 ERC advanced grant Placebo
2011 Ernst Jung Preis for Medicine
2011 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz-Preis (DFG)
Since 2007 PI of the IMAGEN consortium
Since 2004 Adjunct Professor of Psychology, Dept. of Psychology, Hamburg University
Since 2004 Founding member of the Hamburg Academy of Sciences
2004 Young Investigator Award, Organization for Human Brain Mapping
(OHBM)

Tobias Donner
Prof. Dr. med.

University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE), Centre for Experimental Medicine, Department of Neurophysiology and Neurophysiology
Current position
Professor for Integrative Neuroscience (W3) at UKE; Head of Section Computational Cognitive Neuroscience, Department of Neurophysiology
and Neurophysiology

Contact
Tel.: +49 (0) 40 7410 – 55378
Mail: t.donner@uke.de

FURTHER INFORMATION

Role within partner site
Principal investigator within research area of Basic Research

Relevant Work experience
Since 2019 Head of Section Computational Cognitive Neuroscience, Department of Neurophysiology and Neurophysiology, UKE
Since 2015 Professor for Integrative Neuroscience (W3), UKE
Since 2011 Associated Principal Investigator, Bernstein Center for
Computational Neuroscience Berlin
2009-2015 Assistant Professor, Brain and Cognition Group, Dept. of
Psychology, University of Amsterdam
2006-2009 PostDoc at Center for Neural Science and Dept. of Psychology,
New York University, USA
2003-2006 PostDoc at Dept. of Neurophysiology and Pathophysiology,
UKE; and Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud
University Nijmegen, The Netherlands

Main research focus
Dynamics of cognitive computation and cortical circuits; neuromodulation
and arousal; inference and decision-making

Publications

  1. Wilming Murphy PR, Meyniel F, & Donner TH (2020). Large-scale Dynamics of Perceptual Decision Information across the Human Cortex. Nat Commun 11: 5109.
    → https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-18826-6
  2. Talluri B, Urai AE, Tsetsos K, Usher M & Donner TH (2018). Confirmation bias through selective over-weighting of consistent information. Curr Biol 28: 3128-3135.
    →https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960982218309825
  3. Urai AE, Braun A & Donner TH (2017) Pupil-linked arousal is driven by decision uncertainty and alters serial choice bias. Nat Commun 8: 14637.
    → https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms14637/
  4. de Gee JW, Knapen T, Donner TH (2014). Decision-related pupil dilation reflects upcoming choice and individual bias. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 111: E618-625.
    → https://www.pnas.org/content/111/5/E618
  5. Donner TH, Siegel M, Fries P, Engel AK (2009) Build-up of choice-predictive activity in human motor cortex during perceptual decision-making. Curr Biol 19: 1681-1685.
    →https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960982209015437

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Additional information
Since 2017 Board of Reviewing Editors for eLife
2015-2020 Heisenberg Professorship from the German Research Foundation
2006-2008 Postdoctoral fellowship from German Academy of Sciences
(Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften Leopoldina)
1998-2002 Scholarship award from the German National Academic Foundation (‘Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes’)

Andreas K. Engel
Prof. Dr. med.

University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE), Centre for
Experimental Medicine, Department of Neurophysiology and Pathophysiology
Current position
Professor of Physiology (W3), Head of Department of Neurophysiology and Pathophysiology

Contact
Tel.: +49 (0) 40 7410 – 56171
Mail: ak.engel@uke.de

FURTHER INFORMATION

Role within partner site
Principal investigator within research area of Basic Research

Relevant Work experience
Since 2002 Full Professor of Physiology and Director of Dept. of  Neurophysiology and Pathophysiology, UKE
2000–2002 Head of Cellular Neurobiology Group, Institute for Medicine, Research Center Jülich
1996–2000 DFG Heisenberg-Fellow and head of research group, Max-Planck-Institute for Brain Research, Frankfurt
1987–1995 Post-Doctoral Fellow, Neurobiology, Dep. of Neurophysiology,
Max-Planck-Institute for Brain Research, Frankfurt

Main research focus
Role of functional connectivity for sensorimotor and cognitive processes;
alteration of networks and functional connectivity in brain disorders; pathophysiological role of neural oscillations; development of
data-driven methods for analysis of network connectivity; modulation
of neural dynamics and functional connectivity by neurostimulation

Publications

  1. Galindo-Leon EE, Stitt I, Pieper F, Stieglitz T, Engler G, Engel AK (2019). Context-specific modulation of intrinsic coupling modes shapes multisensory processing. Science Adv 5, eaar7633.
    →https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/5/4/eaar7633.abstract
  2. Andreou C, Leicht G, Nolte G, Polomac N, Moritz S, Karow A, Hanganu-Opatz IL, Engel AK, Mulert C (2015). Resting-state theta-band connectivity and verbal memory in schizophrenia and in the high-risk state. Schiz Res 161, 299-307.
    →https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0920996414007282?casa_token=QYolzdFr504AAAAA:H_r1Sao9phgMZ3WEx6NIwD9oSSXrfCwh7jXGGW-Yyz0q0hCruZmAfREY8d0xyayiiCmI4Jw3Mg
  3. Engel AK, Gerloff C, Hilgetag C, Nolte G (2013). Intrinsic coupling modes: multiscale interactions in ongoing brain activity. Neuron 80, 867-886.
    →https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0896627313008696
  4. Hipp JF, Hawellek D, Corbetta M, Siegel M, Engel AK (2012). Large-scale cortical correlation structure of spontaneous oscillatory activity. Nat Neurosci 15, 884-890.
    → https://www.nature.com/articles/nn.3101
  5. Womelsdorf T, Schoffelen J-M, Oostenveld R, Singer W, Desimone R, Engel AK, Fries P (2007). Modulation of neuronal interactions through neuronal synchronization. Science 316, 1609-1612.
    →https://science.sciencemag.org/content/316/5831/1609.abstract?casa_token=E-Yh3EEdu-oAAAAA:jXePLpvA3-dS3SCeGrf1YvJDJJOunSvM27ikPqiZ7Eb8RA9IX5Yy3JOQDpZU856A6Tu8ETjDlw3iRQ

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Additional information
Since 2011 Coordinator of CRC 936 „Multi-site communication in the brain“ (with C. Gerloff, Dept. of Neurology, UKE)
2011–2016 Award of an ERC Advanced Investigator Grant (with P. König, Univ. Osnabrück)
Since 2008 Elected member of the Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Hamburg
Since 2004 Adjunct Professor of Psychology, Dept. of Psychology, Hamburg University
2002 Board Qualification Physiology
1997–1998 Daimler-Benz Fellow, Institute for Advanced Study Berlin
1996–2000 Award of a five-year Heisenberg-Fellowship, DFG
1980–1985 Undergraduate scholarship and doctoral fellowship of the German National Academic Foundation (Studienstiftung des
Deutschen Volkes)

Jürgen Gallinat
Prof. Dr. med.

University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE), Center for Psychosocial Medicine, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Institute for Psychotherapy (IfP)
Current position
Professor of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Director and Chair of the Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy

Contact
Tel.: +49 (0) 40 7410 – 52205
Mail: j.gallinat@uke.de

FURTHER INFORMATION

Role within partner site
Coordinator of the MH-TRN

Relevant Work experience
Since 2014 W3 full professorship and director, UKE, Hamburg
2009–2014 Chief Physician, Psychiatrische Universitätsklinik der Charité im St. Hedwig-Krankenhaus, Berlin
2008 W2 professorship Brain Imaging in Psychiatry, Charité, Berlin
2007-2009 Deputy Director, Clinic for Psychiatry, Charité, Berlin
2006 Habilitation: Neurophysiological indicators of neurotransmitter systems
1998-2007 Senior Researcher, Clinic for Psychiatry, Charité Campus Benjamin Franklin and Campus Mitte, Berlin

Main research focus
Patient-centered, innovative care concepts in severe mental disorders; new motivational training interventions and neuronal plasticity; glutamate, GABA and dopamine pathways in mental disorders

Publications

  1. Moritz S, Silverstein SM, Dietrichkeit M, Gallinat J (2020). Neurocognitive deficits in schizophrenia are likely to be less severe and less related to the disorder than previously thought. World Psychiatry 19:254-255.
    →https://doi.org/10.1002/wps.20759
  2. Kühn S, Kugler DT, Schmalen K, Weichenberger M, Witt C, Gallinat J (2019). Does playing violent video games cause aggression? Mol Psychiatry 24:1220–1234.
    → https://www.nature.com/articles/s41380-018-0031-7
  3. Kühn S, Mascharek A, Banaschewski T, et al., Gallinat J (2019). Predicting development of adolescent drinking behavior from whole brain structure at 14 years of age. Elife pii: e44056.
    →https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0896627313008696
  4. Gleich T, Deserno L, Lorenz R, Böhme R, Pankow A, Buchert R, Kühn S, Heinz A, Schlagenhauf F, Gallinat J (2015). Pefrontal and striatal glutamate differently relate to striatal dopamine. J Neurosci 35: 9615-9621.
    → https://www.jneurosci.org/content/35/26/9615
  5. Richiardi J, Altmann A, Milazzo AC, Chang C, Chakravarty MM, Banaschewski T, Barker GJ, Bokde AL, Bromberg U, Büchel C, Conrod P, Fauth-Bühler M, Flor H, Frouin V, Gallinat J, et al. (2015). Correlated gene expression supports synchronous activity in brain networks. Science 348(6240): 1241-1244.
    → https://science.sciencemag.org/content/348/6240/1241

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Additional information

Founder: The Hamburg Center for Refugees and Migrants (centra); BGV support program since 2019 (www.centra.hamburg)
Initiator: DFG Major Instrument Program High-field MRI in neuronal plasticity research. DFG INST 337/33-1 FUGG
PI: Hamburg-centred ‘Model of cross-sectoral, coordinated, stepped, evidence-based care of mental disorders (RECOVER)‘, funded by the Innovation Committee (01NVF16018)
PI: GABA-glutamate interaction as neurochemical basis of cerebral resting-state dysfunction in depression and schizophrenia: A 7 tesla multimodal imaging project. DFG GA 707/7-1
Board member: The European Assertive Outreach Foundation (EAOF)

Ileana Hanganu-Opatz
Prof. Dr. rer. nat

University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE), Centre for Molecular Neurobiology & Institute of Developmental Neurophysiology
Current position
Full professor (W3), Director of the Department of Developmental Neurophysiology

Contact
Tel.: +49 (0) 40 7410 – 58966
Mail: hangop@zmnh.uni-hamburg.de

FURTHER INFORMATION

Role within partner site
Principal investigator within research area of Basic Research

Relevant Work experience
Since 2013 Full Professor (W3) for Developmental Neurophysiology at UKE
2009-2013 Associate Professor (W2) for Developmental Neurophysiology at UKE
2008-2013 Leader of an independent research group funded by the Emmy Noether-Program of the German Research Foundation (DFG) and the German Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)
2005-2007 Postdoctoral Researcher at Institut de Neurobiologie de la Méditerranée (INSERM), Marseille, France and University Mainz
2002-2005 Postdoctoral Researcher at University Mainz
1999-2002 PhD studies at University Düsseldorf. Fellow of the Neuroscience
Graduate Program

Main research focus
Development and function of neuronal networks; uni- and multisensory
processing and ontogeny; pathophysiology of neurological and
neuropsychiatric disorders; neuro-immune coupling during development
in health and disease

Publications

  1. Chini M, Pöpplau JA, Lindemann C, Carol-Perdiguer L, Hnida M, Oberländer V, Xu X, Ahlbeck J, Bitzenhofer SH, Mulert C, Hanganu-Opatz IL (2020). Resolving and Rescuing Developmental Miswiring in a Mouse Model of Cognitive Impairment. Neuron 105(1):60-74.
    →https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0896627319308451
  2. Bitzenhofer SH, Ahlbeck J, Wolff A, Wiegert JS, Gee CE, Oertner TG, Hanganu-Opatz IL (2017). Layer-specific optogenetic activation of pyramidal neurons causes beta-gamma entrainment of neonatal networks. Nat Commun  8:14563.
    → https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms14563
  3. Marguet SL, Le-Schulte VT, Merseburg A, Neu A, Eichler R, Jakovcevski I, Ivanov A, Hanganu-Opatz IL, Bernard C, Morellini F, Isbrandt D (2015). Treatment during a vulnerable developmental period rescues a genetic epilepsy. Nat Med 21(12):1436-44.
    → https://www.nature.com/articles/nm.3987.pdf?origin=ppub
  4. Brockmann MD, Pöschel B, Cichon N, Hanganu-Opatz IL (2011). Coupled oscillations mediate directed interactions between prefrontal cortex and hippocampus of the neonatal rat. Neuron 71: 332-347.
    →https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0896627311004983
  5. Dupont* E, Hanganu-Opatz IL, Kilb W, Hirsch S, Luhmann HJ (2006). Rapid developmental switch in the mechanisms driving early cortical columnar networks. Nature 439: 79-83.
    → https://www.nature.com/articles/nature04264

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Additional information
2016-2020 Member of the FENS Committee of Higher Education and Training (CHET)
2015 ERC Consolidator Grant
2014 Funding member of the FENS-Kavli Network of Excellence
2009 Emmy Noether Grant of the German Research Foundation
2008 Du Bois-Reymond-Award of the German Society of Physiology

Martin Härter
Prof. Dr. med. Dr. phil. Dipl. Psych.

University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE), Centre for
Psychosocial Medicine, Department of Medical Psychology & Institute for Psychotherapy (IfP) & Agency for Quality in Medicine (ÄZQ), Berlin
Current position
W3-Professor and Director, Department of Medical Psychology

Contact
Tel.: +49 (0) 40 7410 – 52978
Mail: m.haerter@uke.de

FURTHER INFORMATION

Role within partner site
Principal investigator in research area Clinical Research and Health Services Research

Relevant Work experience
2016 Scientific Director Agency for Quality in Medicine (ÄZQ), Berlin
2008 Chair, Dep. of Medical Psychology (UKE)
2004-2010 Head of Section „Clinical Epidemiology and Health Services Research“, Dep. of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University of Freiburg
1998 Research fellow Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), Yale
University School of Medicine, Dep. of Epidemiology and Public Health
1994-2003 Resident physician and senior researcher, Dep. of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University of Freiburg
1988-1994 Research assistant, Dep. of Rehabilitation Psychology, University of Freiburg

Main research focus
Health services & evaluation research; mental health in chronic somatic
illness; depression; patient-centred care, shared decision-making; innovative
care models; guideline implementation; evidence-based care

Publications

  1. Härter M, Watzke B, Daubmann A, Wegscheider K, König HH, Brettschneider C, Liebherz S, Heddaeus D & Steinmann M (2018). Guideline-based stepped and collaborative care for patients with depression in a cluster-randomised trial. Sci Rep UK 20, 8(1), 9389.
    → https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-27470-6
  2. Andreas S, Schulz H, Volkert J, Dehoust M, Sehner S, Suling A, Ausín B, Canuto A, Crawford M, Da Ronch C, Grassi L, Hershkovitz Y, Muñoz M, Quirk A, Rotenstein O, Santos-Olmo AB, Shalev A, Strehle J, Weber K, Wegscheider K, Wittchen HU & Härter M (2017). Prevalence of mental disorders in elderly people: the European MentDis_ICF65+ study. Br J Psychiatry 210(2), 125-131.
    → https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27609811/
  3. Schramm E, Kriston L, Zobel I, Bailer J, Wambach K, Backenstrass M, Klein JP, Schoepf D, Schnell K, Gumz A, Bausch P, Fangmeier T, Meister R, Berger M, Hautzinger M & Härter M (2017). Effect of disorder-specific vs. nonspecific psychotherapy for chronic depression: A randomized clinical trial. JAMA Psychiatry 74(3), 233-242.
    →https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapsychiatry/article-abstract/2600225?casa_token=xCgLPgUGR_gAAAAA:C–zW7R8Js9-IKkzeUe2RxZ2VJ67Jh9uKmaddYoQ-t5apPTnQyF4CGwsI5ZUcWc6bc-h44MxwQ
  4. Baumeister, H, Hutter, N, Bengel, J & Härter, M (2011). Quality of life in medically ill persons with comorbid mental disorders: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Psychother Psychosom 80 (5), 275-286.
    → https://www.karger.com/Article/FullText/323404?casa_token=bXUNWCoGCwwAAAAA:2de9SxfiSB_ghOrRHnNXF4x-3fy5Lrjq3jzKg1gdfL5zHjKiLtE8ueB4QvKVrX9khgE2JR2JJQ
  5. Härter M, Baumeister H, Reuter K, Jacobi F, Höfler M, Bengel J & Wittchen H-U (2007). Increased 12-month prevalence rates of mental disorders in patients with chronic somatic diseases. Psychother Psychosom 76 (6), 354 – 360.
    → https://www.karger.com/Article/Abstract/107563

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Additional information
Since 2018 President of the Intern. Shared Decision Making Society
Since 2018 President of the German Society for Medical Psychology
Since 2018 Member Executive Board German Network Health Services Research (DNVF)
Since 2017 Spokesperson Hamburg Network for Health Services Research
2010-2015 Spokesperson of psychenet – Hamburg Network for Mental Health
Since 2008 Member “National Cancer Plan” of the German Federal Ministry of Health
Since 2005 Coordinator National Clin. Practice Guideline “Depression”

Anne Karow
Prof. Dr. med.

University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE), Center for Psychosocial Medicine, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy
Current position
Professor for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy at UKE, Head of the Centres for Adolescence Psychiatry’, ‘Psychosis and Integrated Care’ and ‘Early Detection and Intervention for Mental Disorders’.

Contact
Tel.: +49 (0) 40 7410 – 57728
Mail: karow@uke.de

FURTHER INFORMATION

Role within partner site
Principal investigator in research area Clinical Research and Health Services Research

Relevant Work experience
Since 2019 Founder of MiNDNET e-Health-Solutions GmbH
Since 2017 PI RECOVER/eRECOVER study, Leader of the Competence Centre for Integrated Care, UKE
2016 Professor of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy
Since 2013 Leader of the Adolescent Psychiatry Unit (inpatient, dayclinic, outpatient), UKE
2011-2012 PI Psychenet/ACCESS III study: Leader of the Therapeutic Assertive Treatment team for Early Psychosis, UKE
Since 2009 Leader of the Early Detection & Intervention Centre, UKE
2008 Venia legendi in Psychiatry and Psychotherapy and senior lecturer
(Habilitation) in Psychiatry and Psychotherapy/UHH
2002-2004 Research fellow and investigating physician, German Heroin
Project, Hamburg, Hannover, Cologne
2001-2002 Psychiatric registrar and research Fellow, Orygen Youth Health, University of Melbourne, Australia
1999-2001/2005-2009 Psychiatric registrar at the Dep. of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy and at the Dep. of Neurology, UKE

Main research focus
Transition psychiatry: Early detection and intervention in child and adolescent,
and young adults at risk/early course of serious mental illness (SMI); development and translation of innovative healthcare models from research to clinical practice (integrated and stepped care therapeutic assertive community treatment, managed care, e-health); patient reported outcomes and healthcare resources: health related quality of life and cost effectiveness in SMI and innovative care models

Publications

  1. Karow A, Brettschneider C, Helmut König H, Lambert M. Better care for less money: cost-effectiveness of integrated care in multi-episode patients with severe psychosis (2020). Acta Psychiatr Scand 141(3):221-230.
    →https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/acps.13139
  2. Lambert M, Karow A, Gallinat J, et al (2020). Study protocol for a randomised controlled trial evaluating an evidence-based, stepped and coordinated care service model for mental disorders (RECOVER). BMJ Open 10(5):e036021.
    →https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/10/5/e036021.abstract
  3. Sengutta M, Gawęda Ł, Moritz S, Karow A (2018). The mediating role of borderline personality features in the relationship between childhood trauma and psychotic-like experiences in a sample of help-seeking non-psychotic adolescents and young adults. Eur Psychiatry 56:84-90.
    →https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/european-psychiatry/article/mediating-role-of-borderline-personality-features-in-the-relationship-between-childhood-trauma-and-psychoticlike-experiences-in-a-sample-of-helpseeking-nonpsychotic-adolescents-and-young-adults/75EF507386F27ED7C8893D3C325D5E39
  4. Karow A, Reimer J, Schäfer I, Krausz M, Haasen C, Verthein U (2010). Drug Alcohol Depend 1;112(3):209-15.
    → ICH BIN EIN HYPERLINK
  5. Lambert M, Schöttle D…Karow A (2017). Early detection and integrated care for adolescents and young adults with psychotic disorders: the ACCESS III study. Acta Psychiatr Scand 136(2):188-200.
    → https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28589683/

Patents N.A.
Additional information
2016 Task Force Transitional Psychiatry of the DGPPN, Leader Early Detection Team
2009 Department for Prevention in Mental Health, DGPPN

Olaf von dem Knesebeck
Prof. Dr. phil., M.A.

University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE), Centre for Psychosocial Medicine, Department of Medical Sociology
Current position
W3-Professor and Director, Department of Medical Sociology

Contact
Tel.: +49 (0) 40 7410 – 57849
Mail: o.knesebeck@uke.de

FURTHER INFORMATION

Role within partner site
Principal investigator in Health Services Research

Relevant Work experience
Since 2010 Chair and Director of the Institute of Medical Sociology, UKE
Since 2004 Professor of Medical Sociology, UKE
1995-2004 Research associate and senior researcher at the Institute of Medical Sociology, University of Düsseldorf
1993-1995 Research associate at the Department of Sociology, University of Düsseldorf

Main research focus
Social determinants of health and healthcare; evaluation research; public
mental health; international comparisons in health services research;
health surveys; health literacy; stigma

Publications

  1. Ludwig J, Liebherz S, Dreier M, Härter M, Knesebeck Ovd (2020) Public stigma towards persons with suicidal thoughts – do age, sex and medical condition of affected persons matter? Suicide Life Threat Behav 50:631-642.
    →https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/sltb.12629
  2. Knesebeck Ovd, Löwe B, Lehmann M, Makowski A (2018) Public beliefs about somatic symptom disorders. Front. Psychiatry 9: 616.
    →https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyt.2018.00616/full
  3. Angermeyer MC, Daubmann A, Wegscheider K, Mnich E, Schomerus G, Knesebeck Ovd (2015). The relationship between biogenetic attributions and desire for social distance from persons with schizophrenia and major depression revisited. Epidemiol Psychiatr Sci, 24:335-341.
    →https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S2045796014000262/type/JOURNAL_ARTICLE
  4. Mnich E, Makowski AC, Lambert M, Angermeyer MC, Knesebeck Ovd (2014). Beliefs about depression – do affliction and treatment experience matter? Results of a population survey from Germany. J Affect Disord 164: 28-32.
    →https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S016503271400175X?casa_token=a6b0YHpqXL0AAAAA:eLMRsf512j0XBxsEXMJkH17a-zmTtafiffNR8AnFf8ccmhDaX0gmtF_KrvxfdQH8H63luYEA4Q
  5. Knesebeck Ovd, Mnich E, Daubmann A, Wegscheider K, Angermeyer MC, Lambert, M, Karow A, Härter M, Kofahl C (2013). Socioeconomic status and beliefs about depression, schizophrenia and eating disorders. Soc Psychiatry Psychiatr Epidemiol 48: 775-782.
    → https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs00127-012-0599-1

Patents N.A.
Additional information
Since 2019 Chief Editor of the International Journal of Public Health
2018-2020 President of the German Society of Medical Sociology
Since 2017 Spokesman of the Centre for Health Care Research (CHCR) at the UKE

Hans-Helmut König
Prof. Dr. med. M.P.H.

University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE), Center for Psychosocial Medicine, Department of Health Economics and Health Services Research & Hamburg Centre for Health Economics, Universität Hamburg
Current position
W3-Professor and Director, Department of Health Economics and Health Services Research

Contact
Tel.: +49 (0) 40 7410 – 54464
Mail: h.koenig@uke.de

FURTHER INFORMATION

Role within partner site
Principal investigator in research area Health Services Research

Relevant Work experience
Since 2010 Professor of Health Services Research and Health Economics, University Medical Centre Hamburg-Eppendorf
2006-2010 Director of the Centre for Prevention and Rehabilitation, University
of Leipzig
2003-2010 Professor of Health Economics, University of Leipzig
1996-2003 Research fellow, Dept. of Health Economics, University of Ulm
1995-1996 Research fellow, Dept. of Health Systems Research, University of Tübingen

Main research focus
Cost-of-illness studies; empirical and model-based cost-effectiveness
analyses; measurement of preferences for health and healthcare

Publications

  1. Engels A, Reber KC, Magaard JL, Härter M, Hawighorst-Knapstein S, Chaudhuri A, . . . König HH (2020). How does the integration of collaborative care elements in a gatekeeping system affect the costs for mental health care in Germany? Eur J Health Econ 21(5), 751-761.
    → https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10198-020-01170-3
  2. König H, König HH, & Konnopka A (2019). The excess costs of Depression: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Epidemiol Psych Sci 29, e30.
    →https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/epidemiology-and-psychiatric-sciences/article/excess-costs-of-depression-a-systematic-review-and-metaanalysis/8F8EE6D5D23F62C56A302EAB378F7B4D
  3. Grochtdreis T, Brettschneider C, Bjerregaard F, Bleich C, Boczor S, Härter M, . . . König HH (2019). Cost-effectiveness analysis of collaborative treatment of late-life depression in primary care (GermanIMPACT). Eur Psychiat 57, 10-18.
    → https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/european-psychiatry/article/costeffectiveness-analysis-of-collaborative-treatment-of-latelife-depression-in-primary-care-germanimpact/CB65EB0E9FBAD84C5A384ABA96441CB9
  4. Grochtdreis T, Brettschneider C, Shedden-Mora M, Piontek K, König HH, Löwe B (2018) Cost-effectiveness Analysis of a Stepped, Collaborative and Coordinated Health Care Network for Patients with Somatoform Disorders (Sofu-Net). J Ment Health Policy Econ 1;21(2):59-69.
    → https://europepmc.org/article/med/29961045
  5. Egger N, Konnopka A, Beutel ME, Herpertz S, Hiller W, Hoyer J, . . . König HH (2016). Longterm cost-effectiveness of cognitive behavioral therapy versus psychodynamic therapy in social anxiety disorder. Depress Anxiety 33(12), 1114-1122.
    →https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/da.22540?casa_token=jv7GwAhEhPkAAAAA%3AMTWX2bIn6Hq3El8wpJHrZOjP59o4F1rPH0ZD6aNWtTI84JTlAAyh_scvVaw_QqMvOmRNisl8F8uL3kY

Patents N.A.
Additional information
2018-2019 President of the German Health Economics Association
Since 2012 Member of the Executive Board of the German Health Economics
Association
2000 Research Award „Smoke-free life“
1999 IMS Health Award
1993-1994 Scholarship from the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst
(DAAD)
1985-1992 Scholarship from the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes

Simone Kühn
Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Dipl. Psych.

University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE), Center for Psychosocial Medicine, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy & Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Lise-Meit- ner-Group for Environmental Neuroscience
Current position
Professor for Neural Plasticity in the Therapy of Psychiatric Disease at UKE, Lise Meitner Group Leader at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development

Contact
Tel.: +49 (0) 40 7410 – 55201
Mail: skuehn@uke.de

FURTHER INFORMATION

Role within partner site
Principal investigator within research area of Basic Research

Relevant Work experience
Since 2019 Lise-Meitner-Group leader at Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin
Since 2016 Heisenberg Professor for Neural Plasticity in Psychiatric Disease (W3) at University Clinic Hamburg-Eppendorf
2012-2016 Senior researcher (W2), leader of the “Mechanisms and Sequential Progression of Plasticity” group at the MPI for Human
Development
2012 Habilitation in Psychology at Humboldt University, Berlin
2010-2012 Postdoc at Charité University Clinic, Berlin and Ghent University, Belgium
2009-2010 Postdoc at University College London, UK (lab of Patrick Haggard)

Main research focus
Brain and behavioural plasticity in health and psychiatric disease; training
interventions targeted at facilitating plasticity; effects of lifestyle and
environmental factors on plasticity

Publications

  1. Stahn A, Gunga HC, Kohlberg E, Gallinat J, Dinges DF, Kühn S (2019). Brain Changes in Response to Long Antarctic Expeditions. N Engl J Med 381, 2273-2275.
    →https://www.nejm.org/doi/pdf/10.1056/NEJMc1904905?casa_token=SrAQKFFniG8AAAAA%3A0ITzbKoMnq20gPt0ejYr1WhL-dwvbo70Gx0OF48eqJOBXMuJiA9xwn1YwgyZU-dnE5h-7vhwxxmOHg
  2. Kühn S, Düzel S, Eibich P, Krekel C, Wüstemann H, Kolbe J, Martensson J et al. (2017). In Search of Features That Constitute an “Enriched Environment” in Humans: Associations between Geographical Properties and Brain Structure. Sci Rep; 7(1): 1–8.
    → https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-017-12046-7?source=post_page—————————
  3. Kühn S, Gallinat J (2014). Amount of lifetime video gaming is positively associated with entorhinal, hippocampal and occipital volume. Mol Psychiatry 19, 842-847.
    → https://www.nature.com/articles/mp2013100
  4. 4. Kühn S, Gleich T, Lorenz R, Lindenberger U, Gallinat J. (2014). Playing Super Mario induces struc- tural brain plasticity: Grey matter changes resulting from training with a commercial video game. Mol Psychiatry 19, 265-271.
    → https://www.nature.com/articles/mp2013120?TB_iframe=true&width=288&height=432
  5. Kühn S & Gallinat J (2013). Resting-state brain activity in schizophrenia and major depression: A quantitative meta-analysis. Schizophr Bull 39, 358-365.
    →https://academic.oup.com/schizophreniabulletin/article/39/2/358/1824284

Patents N.A.
Additional information
Since 2016 ERC starting grant ‘Take Control! Towards novel training regimes enhancing inhibition and impulse control in health and psychiatric disease’, 1.5 mio.
2016 Heisenberg Professorship from the German Research Foundation
2016 Jacobs Foundation Research Fellowship
2005 Admittance to the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes (German sponsorship organisation for the academically gifted)

Martin Lambert
Prof. Dr. med.

University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE), Center for Psychosocial Medicine, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy
Current position
Senior consultant, Head of the Centres for ‘Psychosis and Integrated Care’ and ‘Early Detection and Intervention for Mental Disorders’.

Contact
Tel.: +49 (0) 7410 – 24041
Mail: lambert@uke.de

FURTHER INFORMATION

Role within partner site
Principal investigator in research area Clinical Research and Health Services Research

Relevant Work experience
Since 2019 Founder of MiNDNET E-Health-Solutions GmbH
Since 2005 head of ‘Centre for Psychosis and Integrated Care’
Since 2005 head of Research group on “Serious Mental Illness, Early Detection and Integrated Care”
Since 2003 head of the ‘Early Detection and Intervention Centre for Mental Disorders’.
2000-2002 Research fellow, Orygen Youth Health, University of Melbourne,
Australia

Main research focus
Care models; specifically, for people with serious mental illness and stepped care models; early detection and intervention in serious mental illness; e-mental-health with focus on more servere illnesses

Publications

  1. Lambert M, Karow A, Gallinat J, et al. (2020). Protocol for a randomised controlled trial evaluating an evidence-based, stepped and coordinated care service model for mental disorders (RECOVER). BMJ Open 4;10(5):e036021
    →https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/10/5/e036021.abstract
  2. Lambert M, Kraft V, Rohenkohl A, et al. (2019). Innovative care models for people with schizophrenia. Bundesgesundheitsblatt Gesundheitsforschung Gesundheitsschutz. 62(2):163-172.
    → https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs00103-018-2868-y
  3. Lambert M, Ruppelt F, Siem AK, et al. (2018). Comorbidity of chronic somatic diseases in patients with psychotic disorders and their influence on 4-year outcomes of integrated care treatment (ACCESS II study). Schizophr Res 193:377-383.
    →https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0920996417304474?casa_token=WcP7rw93XncAAAAA:EKeau3Vfl7c3PZG853uZPh56hkgkSBd-ENZ8jz7mJovCNQmP9CLXqI5kVZYEuwGMKn0nlbhykA
  4. Lambert M, Schöttle D, Ruppelt F, et al. (2017). Early detection and integrated care for adolescents and young adults with psychotic disorders: the access III study. Acta Psychiatr Scand 136:188–200.
    →https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/acps.12762?casa_token=LhiCcw-acD4AAAAA%3AspyPrYTPU-Inn-3Bhoi2FQoPATzcgVL7hmCUrXVtYcu9Ii5kYtxI3JIkgbEqR4KO5hyee8jOKYA8Nuk
  5. Lambert M, Bock T, Schöttle D, et al. (2010). Assertive community treatment as part of integrated care versus standard care: a 12-month trial in patients with first- and multiple-episode schizophrenia spectrum disorders treated with quetiapine immediate release (ACCESS trial). J Clin Psychiatry  71(10):1313-23.
    →https://www.psychiatrist.com/JCP/article/Pages/assertive-community-treatment-part-integrated-care.aspx

Patents N.A.
Additional information
2017 Development of a new care model (RECOVER), which was awarded by the professional society as the ‘future model of psychiatric care in Germany’ in 2019
Since 2016 Member of the task force ‘severe mental illness’ at the German Society for Psychiatry, Psychotherapy, Psychosomatics and Neurology (DGPPN)
Since 2015 Member of the board of the European Society on Integrated Care  and Assertive Outreach (EAOF)
Since 2014 Member of the task force ‘early detection and intervention’ at the DGPPN

Tania Lincoln
Prof. Dr. rer. nat.

Universität Hamburg (UHH), Institute of Psychology, Department of
Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy
Current position
W3 Professor for Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, UHH (since 2011); Director of the Psychological Outpatient Clinic at UHH (since 2011); Scientific Director of PTA Hamburg (Training Institute for Clinical Psychologists, since 2016)

Contact
Tel.: +49 40 42838-5360
Mail: klinische.psych@uni-hamburg.de

FURTHER INFORMATION

Role within partner site
Principal investigator within research area of Clinical Research

Relevant Work experience
2010 Recognition as Supervisor for Behaviour Therapy
2008 Habilitation in Psychology, in particular Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy at Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany
2005 – 2011 Senior Lecturer for Clinical Psychology, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany & Member of Scientific Committee of the Outpatient and Research Clinic Universität Marburg
2003 – 2005 Therapist and researcher in the Clinic for Forensic Psychiatry, Haina (Kloster), Germany
2000 – 2004 Qualification training at IPP Münster to become a Licensed Clinical Psychologist (German: Approbation)
2000 – 2003 PhD (Dr. rer. nat.) Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany

Main research focus
Identifying social risk factors for psychotic symptoms; understanding the mechanisms that translate social risk-factors into psychotic symptoms; developing and evaluating psychological therapies for psychosis; improving dissemination of evidence-based interventions for psychosis

Publications

  1. Ludwig L, Mehl S, Krkovic K, Lincoln TM (2020). Effectiveness of emotion regulation in daily life in individuals with psychosis and non-clinical controls – an experience sampling study. J Abnorm Psychol 129(4), 408–421.
    → https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2020-13952-001
  2. Lincoln TM, Peters E (2019). A review and discussion of symptom specific cognitive behavioural approaches to delusions and hallucinations. Schizophr Res 203, 66-79.
    →https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0920996417307661?casa_token=Gq5QoMYE6DwAAAAA:HoD5vEmy-15a82ado-pL-xIkBXt81tP7DZ4O-fCi4NMGqA_Iek6av0THeGLcbintvoQQU7U9cg
  3. Lincoln TM, Pedersen A, Hahlweg K, Wiedl K, Frantz I (2019). Evidenzbasierte Leitlinie zur Psychotherapie von Schizophrenie und anderen psychischen Störungen. Göttingen: Hogrefe.
    → https://www.hogrefe.com/de/shop/evidenzbasierte-leitlinie-zur-psychotherapie-von-schizophrenie-und-anderen-psychotischen-stoerungen-88681.html
  4. Lincoln TM, Sundag J, Schlier B, Karow A (2018). The relevance of emotion regulation in explaining why social exclusion triggers paranoia in individuals at clinical high risk of psychosis. Schizophr Bull 44(6), 757–767.
    →https://academic.oup.com/schizophreniabulletin/article/44/4/757/4372293
  5. Lincoln TM, Ziegler M, Mehl S, Lüllmann E, Kesting ML, Westermann S, Rief W (2012). Moving from efficacy to effectiveness in CBT for psychosis. A randomized-controlled clinical practice trial. J Consult Clin Psychol 80(4), 674-686.
    → https://psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?doi=10.1037%2Fa0028665

Patents N.A.
Additional information
Since 2019 Member of Akademie der Wissenschaften Hamburg Several keynotes/invited talks (e.g. invited talk at upcoming 2021 Congress of the Schizophrenia International Research Society (SIRS))
2018 Keynote at the 48th Annual Congress of the European Association for Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy held in Sofia, Bulgaria
2009 DGVT-Award for Behaviour Therapy in the Psycho-Social Implementation
2007-2008 Beck Institute scholar for the academic year 2007-2008

Ulman Lindenberger
Prof. Dr. phil. Dipl. Psych.

Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Centre for Lifespan Psychology,
Max Planck UCL Centre for Computational Psychiatry and Ageing Research
Current position
Director at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development

Contact
Tel.: +49 30 82406-572/573
Mail: seklindenberger@mpib-berlin.mpg.de

FURTHER INFORMATION

Role within partner site
Principal investigator within research area of Basic Research

Relevant Work experience
Since 2014 Director (with Ray Dolan, UCL) of Max Planck UCL Centre for Computational Psychiatry and Ageing Research
Since 2003 Scientific Member of Max Planck Society and Director of Max Planck Institute for Human Development
1999-2003 Professor of Psychology, School of Psychology, University of the Saarland

Main research focus
Lifespan cognitive neuroscience: Behavioural and neural plasticity across the lifespan; brain-behaviour relations across the lifespan; multivariate developmental methodology; formal models of behavioural change

Publications

  1. Lövdén M, Fratiglioni L, Glymour MM, Lindenberger U, & Tucker-Drob EM (2020). Education and cognitive functioning across the life span. Psychol Sci Public Interest 21(1), 6–41.
    →https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1529100620920576
  2. Lindenberger U, Wenger E, & Lövdén M (2017). Towards a stronger science of human plasticity. Nat Rev Neurosci 18, 261-262.
    → https://www.nature.com/articles/nrn.2017.44
  3. Lindenberger U (2014). Human cognitive aging: Corriger la fortune? Science 346(6209), 572–578.
    →https://science.sciencemag.org/content/346/6209/572.abstract?casa_token=DO23GfFTaBIAAAAA:Y4G-mhhwR-WhV4pXSz1-FRLcgVwZLuX_frQnZ-K0zSIERComKNNV_wvIuhkheaSUSKmZpV-2l5PDcw
  4. Freund J, Brandmaier AM, Lewejohann L, Kirste I, Kritzler M, Krüger M, Sachser N, Lindenberger U, Kempermann G (2013). Emergence of Individuality in Genetically Identical Mice. Science (New York, N.Y.) 340, Nr. 6133. 756–59.
    → http://library.mpib-berlin.mpg.de/ft/jf/JF_Emergence_2013.pdf
  5. Raz N, Lindenberger U, Rodrigue KM, Kennedy KM, Head D, Williamson A, Dahle C, Gerstorf D, & Acker JD (2005). Regional brain changes in aging healthy adults: General trends, individual differences and modifiers. Cereb Cortex 15, 1676-1689.
    →https://academic.oup.com/cercor/article/15/11/1676/296890

Patents N.A.
Additional information
Since 2019 Fellow, Max Planck School of Cognition
2011 Mentoring Award of the German Psychological Society’s (DGPs) Section on Lifespan Psychology
Since 2010 Fellow, Association for Psychological Science
2010 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize 2010
Since 2009 Fellow, American Psychological Association, Division 20
Since 2006 Fellow, Gerontological Society of America
Since 2006 Member, German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, Section Empirical Psychology and Cognitive Sciences

Tina Lonsdorf
Dr. Phil. Dipl. Psych.

University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE), Centre for
Experimental Medicine, Department of Systems Neuroscience
Current position
Emmy-Noether Independent Junior Research Group Leader

Contact
Tel.: +49 (0) 40 7410 – 55769
Mail: t.lonsdorf@uke.de

FURTHER INFORMATION

Role within partner site
Principal investigator within research area of Basic Research

Relevant Work experience
Since 2019 Emmy-Nöther Independent Junior Research Group Leader
(DFG)
2013-2020 PI, CRC 58 “Fear, Anxiety, Anxiety Disorders”
2010-2013 PostDoc, Inst. for Systems Neuroscience (UKE)
2006-2010 PhD in Clinical Neuroscience (Karolinska Institutet,
Stockholm, Sweden)

Main research focus
Experimental psychopathological models of fear & anxiety; life adversity; individual differences, translation; psychophysiology; methods with a focus on translational methods

Publications

  1. Lonsdorf TB, Merz CJ & Fullana MA (2019). Extinction retention – is it what we think it is? Biol Psychiatry 15;85(12):1074-1082.
    → https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0006322319301131
  2. Kuhn M, […] Lonsdorf TB (2019). The neurofunctional basis of affective startle modulation in humans: evidence from combined facial electromyography and functional magnetic resonance imaging. Biol psychiatry 87 (6), 548-558.
    →https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S000632231931563X
  3. Haaker J, […] Lonsdorf TB (2018). Making translation work: Harmonizing cross-species methodology in the behavioural neuroscience of Pavlovian fear conditioning. Neurosci Biobehav
    Rev 107, 329-345.
    →https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S014976341930288X
  4. Scharfenort R, Menz MM & Lonsdorf TB (2016). Adversity-induced relapse of fear – Neural Mechanisms and implications for relapse prevention from a study on experimentally induced return- of- fear following fear conditioning and extinction. Translational Psychiatry 19, 6:e858.
    →https://www.nature.com/articles/tp2016126
  5. Lonsdorf TB […] Öhman A (2009). Genetic gating of human fear learning and extinction: possible implications for gene-environment interaction in anxiety disorder. Psych Sci 20(2) 198-206.
    →https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.1467-9280.2009.02280.x

Patents N.A.
Additional information
Since 2020 Program Committee DFG Priority Program 2317 “METAREP” (A Meta-scientific Programme to Analyse and Optimise Replicability in the Behavioural, Social, and Cognitive Sciences)
Since 2020 Co-Speaker “IGOR“ (Special Interest Group Reproducible and Open Science”), German Psychological Society, Biological Psychology section
2020 Commission Award (Society for the Improvement of
Psychological Science, SIPS)
Since 2019 DFG Emmy Noether Independent Junior Research Group Leader (1.55 Mio Euro)
Since 2015 Speaker DFG Scientific Network “EIFEL-ROF” (European Interdisciplinary Study of Fear and Extinction Learning as well as the return
of fear)

Bernd Löwe
Prof. Dr. med. Dipl. -Psych.

University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE),  Center for Psychosocial Medicine, Department of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy & Institute for Psychotherapy (IfP)
Current position
W3-Professor and Director, Department of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy; Director, Institute for Psychotherapy (IfP)

Contact
Tel.: +49 (0) 40 7410 – 59733
Mail: b.loewe@uke.de

FURTHER INFORMATION

Role within partner site
Principal investigator in research area Clinical Research and Health Services Research

Relevant Work experience
Since 2018 W3 full professorship and director, Dep. of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, UKE
Since 2017 Director Institute for Psychotherapy (IfP), UKE
2007 – 2018 W3 endowed professorship and director, Dep. of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, UKE, and Head Physician, Schön Clinic Hamburg-Eilbek, Hamburg, Germany
2007 Extraordinary professorship, UKH
2004 – 2007 Chief consultant and head of research, Dep. of Psychosomatic and General Clinical Medicine, UKH
2003 – 2004 DFG research fellow / Max Kade Foundation, Regenstrief Institute, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, USA
1996 – 2003 Junior physician and research assistant, Dep. of Psychosomatic and General Clinical Medicine, University Medical Center Heidelberg (UKH), Germany

Main research focus
Somatic symptom and related disorders; comorbidity in patients with somatic
diseases; eating disorders; clinical and health services research; research on psychotherapy, diagnostic & psychometrics

Publications

  1. Toussaint A, Hüsing P, Kohlmann S, Löwe B (2020). Detecting DSM-5 somatic symptom disorder: criterion validity of the Patient Health Questionnaire-15 (PHQ-15) and the Somatic Symptom Scale-8 (SSS-8) in combination with the Somatic Symptom Disorder – B Criteria Scale (SSD-12). Psychol Med 50(2):324-33.
    →https://search.proquest.com/openview/b8c7866b6a835cbe9602c14d3cc8b70e/1?cbl=35753&pq-origsite=gscholar
  2. Löwe B, Piontek K, Daubmann A, Härter M, Wegscheider K, König HH, Shedden-Mora M (2017). Effectiveness of a Stepped, Collaborative, and Coordinated Health Care Network for Somatoform Disorders (Sofu-Net): A Controlled Cluster Cohort Study. Psychosom Med 79(9):1016–1024.
    →https://journals.lww.com/psychosomaticmedicine/Abstract/2017/11000/Effectiveness_of_a_Stepped,_Collaborative,_and.9.aspx
  3. Löwe B, Blankenberg S, Wegscheider K, König HH, Walter D, Murray AM, Gierk B, Kohlmann S (2017). Depression screening with patient-targeted feedback in cardiology: DEPSCREENINFO randomised clinical trial. Br J Psychiatry 210:132-139.
    →https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/the-british-journal-of-psychiatry/article/depression-screening-with-patienttargeted-feedback-in-cardiology-depscreeninfo-randomised-clinical-trial/51576167758C2532B495D52DCE083DAA
  4. Löwe B, Lohse A, Andresen V, Vettorazzi E, Rose M, Broicher W (2016). The Development of Irritable Bowel Syndrome: A Prospective Community-Based Cohort Study. Am J Gastroenterol 111:1320-1329.
    →https://journals.lww.com/ajg/Abstract/2016/09000/The_Development_of_Irritable_Bowel_Syndrome__A.24.aspx
  5. Gierk B, Kohlmann S, Kroenke K, Spangenberg L, Zenger M, Brähler E, Löwe B (2014). The Somatic Symptom Scale-8 (SSS-8): A Brief Measure of Somatic Symptom Burden. JAMA Intern Med 174:399-407.
    →https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/article-abstract/1783305

Patents N.A.
Additional information
2020 – 2023 Elected member, DFG review board FK 205-02 (medicine: public health, medical health services research, social medicine)
2020 Wayne Katon Research Award of the ACLP, USA
Since 2019 Appointed by the APA to revise the DSM-5 section on somatic symptom disorders
Since 2017 Deputy Head, Centre for Internal Medicine, UKE
Since 2016 Speaker, European Network to improve diagnosis, treatment and healthcare for patients with persistent somatic symptoms (EURONET-SOMA)

Candelaria Mahlke
Dr. Phil. Dipl. Psych.

University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE), Center for Psychosocial Medicine, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy
Current position
Research group lead “Social Psychiatric and Participatory Research”

Contact
Tel.: +49 (0) 74 10-5 89 33
Mail: c.mahlke@uke.de

FURTHER INFORMATION

Role within partner site
Principal investigator in research area Involvement of Patients, Carers, and the Public

Relevant Work experience
2020 Lead/PI: ImpPeer-Psy5: Peerbegleitung in der psychiatrischen Versorgung – Implementierungsbedingungen im SGB V – UKE
2019 Lead Res. Group “Social Psychiatric and Participatory Research”; Lead/PI: HoPe: Peer Support Hometreatment Intervention – UKE
2018 Lead/PI: UPSIDES: Using peer-support in developing empowering mental health services – UKE
2017 PhD thesis: “Peer-support for individuals with severe mental illness and their carers” UHH
2016-2018 PI: ZVP Reduction of coercive measures – UKE/UHH
2015-2018 PI: EmPeeRie: Empower peers for research – UKE
2015-2017 PI: BAESCAP Peer-support in community treatment – UKE
2014 Co-Lead and founding: Research Group “Social Psychiatric and Participatory Research – UKE

Main research focus
Peer Support; participatory research; consumer and carer led health services evaluation and implementation research; rights-based & patient-centered care; informed decision-making; innovative peer support intervention and care models; guidelines implementation peer support; evidence-based trainings for the community and mental health staff; stigma; recovery orientation; empowerment; coercion avoidance

Publications

  1. Wechsler D, Schomerus G, Mahlke C, Bock T. Effects of contact-based, short-term antistigma training for medical students (2020). Neuropsychiatrie, 34(2):66–73.
    →https://europepmc.org/article/med/32112263
  2. Ibrahim N, Thompson D, Nixdorf R, Ryan G, Shamba D, Kalha Y, Moran G, Hiltensperger R, Mahlke C, Puschner B, Repper J, Slade M. (2020). A systematic review of influences on implementation of peer support work for adults with mental health problems. Soc Psychiatry Psychiatr Epidemiol 55(3):285-293.
    → https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00127-019-01739-1

  3. Charles A, Thompson D, Nixdorf R, Ryan G, Shamba D, Kalha Y, Moran G, Hiltensperger R, Mahlke C, Puschner B, Repper J, Slade M. (2019). A systematic review of adaptations of peer support worker interventions for adults with mental health problems. Br J Psychiatr 216(6):1-7.
    → https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/3422171/a-typology-of-modifications-to-peer-support-work-for-adults-with-mental-health-problems-a-systematic-review
  4. Mahlke CI, Priebe S., Heumann K, Daubmann A, Wegscheider K, Bock T (2017). Effectiveness of one-to-one peer support for patients with severe mental illness – a randomised controlled trial Euro Psychiat 42:103-110.
    →https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0924933816301870
  5. Mahlke C, Krämer U, Becker T, Bock T. (2014). Peer support in mental health services. Curr Opin Psychiatry 27:276-81.
    → https://journals.lww.com/co-psychiatry/Abstract/2014/07000/Peer_support_in_mental_health_services.7.aspx

Patents N.A.
Additional information
Since 2020 GACD taskforce mental health in Covid-19
2020 – Antistigma Award: Evidence based, peer-led training to avoid coercion for mental health staff
Since 2018 contributing member GACD/MHIN

Steffen Moritz
Prof. Dr. phil. Dipl. Psych.

University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE), Center for Psychosocial Medicine, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy
Current position
Professor for Clinical Psychology at the Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, head of the Neuropsychology unit

Contact
Tel.: +49 (0) 40 7410 – 56565
Mail: moritz@uke.de

FURTHER INFORMATION

Role within partner site
Principal investigator within research area of Clinical Research

Relevant Work experience
2004 Habilitation in Psychology at Universität Hamburg, psychology department
2001 Postdoc at University British Columbia, Canada (lab of Peter Graf)
Since 1997 Neuropsychology unit at the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE), Center for Psychosocial Medicine

Main research focus
Development of low-threshold digital interventions; training interventions
targeted at cognitive biases; moderators of neurocognitive malperformance
in psychiatric disorders

Publications

  1. Gräfe V, Moritz S, Greiner W (2020). Health economic evaluation of an internet intervention for depression (deprexis), a randomized controlled trial. Health Econ Rev 10:19.
    →https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13561-020-00273-0
  2. Moritz S, Schröder J, Klein JP, Lincoln TM, Andreou C, Fischer A & Arlt S (2016). Effects of online intervention for depression on mood and positive symptoms in schizophrenia. Schizophr Res 175, 216-222.
    →https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0920996416301827
  3. Moritz S, Veckenstedt R, Andreou C, Bohn F, Hottenrott B, Leighton L, Köther U, Woodward TS, Treszl A, Menon M, Schneider B, Pfueller U & Roesch-Ely D (2014). Sustained and “sleeper” effects of metacognitive group training for schizophrenia: a randomized clinical trial. JAMA Psychiatry 71, 1103-1111.
    →https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapsychiatry/article-abstract/1895571
  4. Moritz S, Schilling L, Hauschildt M, Schröder J & Treszl A (2012). A randomized controlled trial of internet-based therapy in depression. Behav Res and Ther 50, 513-521.
    →https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0005796712000757
  5. Moritz S, Veckenstedt R, Randjbar S, Vitzthum F & Woodward TS (2011). Antipsychotic treatment beyond antipsychotics: Metacognitive intervention for schizophrenia patients (MCT) improves delusional symptoms. Psychol Med 41, 1823-1832.
    →http://www.cnoslab.com/pdfs/antipsychotic_treatment_beyond.pdf

Patents N.A.
Additional information
2011 Hamburg Award Personality Disorders by the Society for the Research and Therapy of Personality Disorders (GEPS)
2010 Psychotherapy award by the German Association for Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics (DGPPN)
2004 Award of the Society for Neuropsychology (GNP) for his achievements
2000 Young Researcher Award at the schizophrenia congress in Bern
1997 Stipend for the academically gifted Universität Hamburg

Ulrike Ravens-Sieberer
Prof. Dr. phil. MPH

University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE), Center for Psychosocial Medicine, Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychotherapy
Current position
Professor for Child Public Health and Health Care Services Research for Children and Adolescents; Head of Research of the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychotherapy

Contact
Tel.: +49 (0) 40 7410 – 52992
Mail: ravens-sieberer@uke.de

FURTHER INFORMATION

Role within partner site
Principal investigator in research area Health Services Research

Relevant Work experience
Since 2008 Professor for Child Public Health and Health Care Services Research for Children and Adolescents at the UKE, UHH
2007-2008 Prof. for Psychosocial Health Care Services Research and Health Psychology at the School of Public Health, University of Bielefeld
2005-2006 Honours Prof. for Clinical Psychology, Free University Berlin
2004-2005 “Research Officer Child Health”, World Health Organization, European Office for Investment in Health & Development, Venice, Italy
2000-2006 Associate Prof. and Head of research group “Indicators of Child & Adolescent Health” at the Robert Koch-Institute, Berlin
1997-2000 Scholarship holder, res. assistant, Dep. of Medical Psychology, UKE
1995-1997 Res. assistant, Dep. of Psychosomatic Medicine, Technical University of Munich

Main research focus
Eur. epidemiological studies on mental health and health-related quality of life (QoL) in children and adolescents; methods and instruments to assess mental health and health-related QoL in children and adolescents; healthcare research for chronical illnesses and psychosocial interventions, prevention and health promotion

Publications

  1. Otto C, Reiss F, Voss C, … Ravens-Sieberer U (2020). Mental health and well-being from childhood to adulthood: Design, methods and results of the 11-year follow-up of the BELLA study. Eur Child Adoles Psy.
    →https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00787-020-01630-4
  2. Klasen F, Otto C, Kriston L, … Ravens-Sieberer U (2015). Risk and protective factors for the development of depressive symptoms in children and adolescents: Results of the longitudinal BELLA study. Eur Child Adoles Psy 24(6), 695-703.
    →https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00787-014-0637-5
  3. Ottova-Jordan V, Smith OR, Augustine L, … Ravens-Sieberer U (2015). Trends in health complaints from 2002 to 2010 in 34 countries and their association with health behaviours and social context factors at individual and macro-level. Eur J Public Health 25 Suppl 2, 83-89.
    →https://academic.oup.com/eurpub/article/25/suppl_2/83/590995
  4. Ravens-Sieberer U, Devine J, Bevans K, Riley AW, Moon J, Salsman JM, & Forrest CB (2014). Subjective well-being measures for children were developed within the PROMIS project: presentation of first results. J Clin Epidemiol 67(2), 207-218.
    →https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0895435613003806
  5. Petersen-Ewert C, Erhart M, & Ravens-Sieberer U (2011). Assessing health-related quality of life in European children and adolescents. Neurosci  Biobehav Rev 35(8), 1752-1756.
    → https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs00787-008-1016-x

Patents N.A.
Additional information
Since 2016 Member of the scientific advisory board of the National Prevention
Conference
Since 2011 Board Member of the German Centre for Addiction Issues
2010-2015 Board Member Centere for Health Care Research, UKE
2010-2013 Board Member Fed. Ass. Prevention and Health Promotion
2006-2010 Director Collaborating Centre for Child of Adolescent Health Promotion of the World Health Organization (WHO)
2006-2008 Board Member German Society for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (DGKJP)

Brigitte Röder
Prof. Dr. rer. nat.

Biological Psychology and Neuropsychology, Faculty of Psychology and Human Movement, Universität Hamburg
Current position
Full Professor for Biological Psychology and Neuropsychology, Universität
Hamburg; Adjunct Professor at the Faculty of Medicine, Hamburg-Eppendorf

Contact
Tel.: +49 40 42838-3251
Mail: brigitte.roeder@uni-hamburg.de

FURTHER INFORMATION

Role within partner site
Principal investigator within research area of Basic Research

Relevant Work experience
Since 2003 Full Professor (C4, since 2010: W3), Universität Hamburg
2000-2003 Emmy Noether fellow (German Research Foundation); Psychology
Department, Philipps-University Marburg
1997-2000 Research and Teaching Associate Psychology Department, Philipps-University Marburg
1995-1997 Postdoc; Department of Psychology and Neuroscience (Prof. Dr. H.J. Neville); University of Oregon, Eugene (U.S.)

Main research focus
Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience with a focus on the mechanisms of change (neuroplasticity and learning)

Publications

  1. Rohlf S, Li L, Bruns P, & Röder B (2020). Multisensory integration develops prior to crossmodal recalibration. Current Biology 30(9), 1726-1732.e7.
    →https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960982220302554
  2. Guerreiro MJS, Putzar L, & Röder B (2015). The effect of early visual deprivation on the neural bases of multisensory processing. Brain 138(6), 1499-1504.
    →https://academic.oup.com/brain/article/138/6/1499/2847483
  3. Hötting K, Röder B (2013). Beneficial effects of physical exercise on neuroplasticity and cognition. Neurosci Biobehav Rev 37:2243-57.
    →https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0149763413001012
  4. Röder B, Ley P, Shenoy BH, Kekunnaya R, & Bottari D (2013). Sensitive periods for the functional specialization of the neural system for human face processing. PNAS 110(42), 16760-16765.
    →https://www.pnas.org/content/110/42/16760.short
  5. Röder B, Teder-Sälejärvi W, Sterr A, Rösler F, Hillyard SA, Neville HJ (1999). Improved Auditory Spatial Tuning in Blind Humans. Nature 400, Nr. 6740, 162–66.
    → https://www.nature.com/articles/22106

Patents N.A.
Additional information
Since 2019 Member of the senate of the German Research Foundation (DFG)
Since 2019 Chair of the committee for graduation, Psychology Department,
Universität Hamburg
Since 2017 Member of the scientific advisory board at the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics, Frankfurt/M
Since 2015 Member of the committee for Life Sciences of the German National Academy Leopoldina
2016-2019 Member of the review board (Psychology: 110) of the German Research Foundation (DFG)

Ingo Schäfer
Prof. Dr. med. MPH

University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE), Center for Psychosocial Medicine, Department of Medical Psychology, Centre for Interdisciplinary Addiction Research (ZIS) & UHH
Current position
Head, Trauma and Stress Research Group, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, UKE; Director, Centre for Interdisciplinary Addiction Research (ZIS), UHH

Contact
Tel.: +49 (0) 40 7410 – 59290
Mail: i.schaefer@uke.de

FURTHER INFORMATION

Role within partner site
Principal investigator within research area of Clinical Research

Relevant Work experience
Since 2019 Head, Coordinating Center for Traumatised Refugees, Federal
State of Hamburg
Since 2017 Director, Center for Interdisciplinary Addiction Res., UHH
Since 2012 Senior Physician, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy,
UHH
2010-2017 Managing Director, Center for Interdisciplinary Addiction Research,
Universität Hamburg
2010 Habilitation in Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, UHH
2010 Res. Associate, Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College, London
2002-2009 Resident and Research Fellow, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy/Department of Neurology, Universität Hamburg

Main research focus
Psychotraumatology; role of early adversity in mental disorders; comorbidity
research; addiction research; psychotherapeutic research; migrants
mental health

Publications

  1. Muehlhan M, Höcker A, Miller R, Trautmann S, Wiedemann K, Lotzin A, Barnow S, Schäfer I (2020). HPA axis stress reactivity and hair cortisol concentrations in healthy controls and recently detoxified alcoholics with and without childhood maltreatment. Addict Biol 25(1): e12681.
    →https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/adb.12681
  2. Schäfer I, Lotzin A, Hiller P, Sehner S, Driessen M, Hillemacher T, Schaefer M, Scherbaum N, Schneider B, Grundmann J (2019). A Multisite Randomized Controlled Trial of Seeking Safety vs. Relapse Prevention Training for Women with Co-Occurring Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and Substance Use Disorders. Europ J Psychotraumatol 10(1): 1577092.
    →https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/20008198.2019.1577092
  3. Schäfer I, Pawils S, Driessen M, Härter M, Hillemacher T, Klein M, Muehlhan M, Ravens-Sieberer U, Schäfer M, Scherbaum N, Schneider B, Thomasius R, Wiedemann K, Wegscheider K, Barnow S. (2017) Understanding the Role of Childhood Abuse and Neglect as a Cause and Consequence of Substance Abuse: The German CANSAS-Network. Europ J Psychotraumatol 8(1): 1304114.
    →https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/20008198.2017.1304114
  4. Lotzin A, Haupt L, von Schönfels J, Wingenfeld K, Schäfer I (2016). Profiles of childhood trauma and severity of addiction-related problems in patients with alcohol dependence. Alcohol Clin Exp Res 40(3), 543-452.
    →https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/acer.12990
  5. Theleritis C, Fisher HL, Schäfer I et al. (2014). Brain Derived Neurotropic Factor (BDNF) is associated with Childhood Abuse but not Cognitive Domains in First Episode Psychosis. Schizophr Res 159, 56-61.
    →https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0920996414003703

Patents N.A.
Additional information
Since 2020 Advisory Panel, EU Centre of Expertise for Victims of Terrorism
Since 2020 Member, National Council on Childhood Sexual Abuse
Since 2020 Spokesperson, BMBF-Networks Mental Health in Refugees
2016-2019 President, European Society for Traumatic Stress Studies
Since 2014 Coordinator German S3-Guideline PTSD
2014-2016 President, Germanspeaking Society for Psychotraumatology

Isabelle Scholl
Prof. Dr. phil. Dipl. Psych.

University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE),  Center for Psychosocial Medicine, Department of Medical Psychology
Current position
Head of research group Patient-Centered Care: Evaluation and Implementation

Contact
Tel.: +49 (0) 40 7410 – 57135
Mail: i.scholl@uke.de

FURTHER INFORMATION

Role within partner site
Principal investigator in research area Health Services Research

Relevant Work experience
Since 2017 Head of Junior Research Group in Health Services Research (Nachwuchsgruppe Versorgungsforschung) funded by Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)
2016 – 2017 Visiting scientist, The Dartmouth Institute for Health Care Policy and Clinical Practice Dartmouth College, NH, USA
Since 2013 Head of research group, Dep. of Medical Psychology, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf
Since 2008 Research associate, Dep. of Medical Psychology, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf
2005 – 2008 Research assistant, Dep. of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University of Freiburg

Main research focus
Health services research; implementation research; patient-centered care; shared decision-making; communication in healthcare; patient-reported experience measures

Publications

  1. Scholl I, Hahlweg P, Lindig A, Bokemeyer C, Coym A, Hanken H, Muller V, Smeets R, Witzel I, Kriston L, Härter M. (2018a). Evaluation of a program for routine implementation of shared decision-making in cancer care: study protocol of a stepped wedge cluster randomized trial. Implement Sci;13(1):51.
    →https://implementationscience.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13012-018-0740-y
  2. Scholl I, LaRussa A, Hahlweg P, Kobrin S, Elwyn G (2018b). Organizational- and system-level characteristics that influence the implementation of SDM and strategies to address them – a scoping review. Implement Sci; 13:40.
    →https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13012-018-0731-z
  3. Christalle E, Zeh S, Hahlweg P, Kriston L, Harter M, Scholl I (2018). Assessment of patient centredness through patient-reported experience measures (ASPIRED): protocol of a mixed methods study. BMJ Open. 8(10):e025896
    →https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/8/10/e025896.abstract
  4. Zisman-Ilani Y, Roe D, Scholl I, Härter M, Karnieli-Miller O. (2016). Shared decision-making during active psychiatric hospitalization: Assessment and psychometric properties. Health Commun. 11:1-5.
    →https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10410236.2015.1099504
  5. Kriston L, Scholl I, Holzel L, Simon D, Loh A, Härter M. (2010). The 9-item Shared Decision Making Questionnaire (SDM-Q-9). Development and psychometric properties in a primary care sample. Patient Educ Couns. 80(1):94-99.
    →https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0738399109004509

     

Patents N.A.
Additional information
Since 2018 Member of the scientific advisory board of the German Network of Health Promoting Hospitals and Health Services
2018 – 2020 Vice president of the International Shared Decision Making Society
Since 2016 Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of “Unabhängige Patientenberatung Deutschland” (Independent Patient Counseling Germany)
2016 – 2017 Harkness Fellowship in Health Care Policy and Practice, Commonwealth Fund / B. Braun Stiftung
2013 – 2016 Founding member of the Committee for early career researchers of the European Association for Communication in Healthcare (EACH)

Jonas Schreyögg
Prof. Dr.

Department of Health Care Management and Scientific Director of the Hamburg Centre for Health Economics (UHH) & Joint Centre of the Faculties
of Medicine, Economics and Business Administration
Current position
W3-Professor and Head, Department of Health Care Management

Contact
Tel.: +49 40 42838-8041
Mail: jonas.schreyoegg@uni-hamburg.de

FURTHER INFORMATION

Role within partner site
Principal investigator in research area Health Services Research

Relevant Work experience
Since 2010 Professor of Health Care Management, Universität Hamburg
2008-2010 Professor of Health Services Management, LMU Munich
2006-2007 Harkness Fellow, PCOR, Stanford University
2004-2005 Research fellow, Dep. of Health Care Management, TU Berlin
2001-2004 Research fellow, Dep. of Public Finance and Health Economics, TU Berlin

Main research focus
Organization and reimbursement of healthcare providers; measuring
the quality of care in hospitals and outpatient care; economic evaluation
of healthcare interventions

Publications

  1. Phillips EA, Himmler S, Schreyögg J (2020). Preferences for online e-mental health interventions in Germany: a discrete choice experiment. In: Value in Heath.
    → 
  2. Schneider A, Oppel E, Schreyögg J (2020). Investigating the link between medical urgency and hospital efficiency – Insights from the German hospital market. Health Care Manag Sc, 1-12.
    → https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10729-020-09520-6
  3. Phillips EA Gordeev VS, Schreyögg J (2019). Effectiveness of Occupational e-Mental Health Interventions: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials. Scan J Work, Env Hea 45(6): 560-576.
    →https://www.sjweh.fi/show_abstract.php?abstract_id=3839&fullText=1
  4. Krämer J, Schreyögg J (2019). Substituting Emergency Services: Primary Care vs. Hospital Care. Health Policy 123(11): 1053-1060
    →https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0168851019302039
  5. Haas L, Stargardt T, Schreyögg J, Schlösser R, Danzer G, Klapp BF (2013). The trade-off between costs and quality of care in the treatment of psychosomatic patients with somatoform pain disorder. Appl Health Econ Health Policy 11: 359-368.
    →https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40258-013-0042-0

     

Patents N.A.
Additional information
Since 2020 Member of the DFG Commission on Pandemic Research
2018-2020 Member of the Federal Governmental Commission on “Reforming physician reimbursement”
2015-2017 Member of the Expert Committee for Nursing Care in Hospitals at the German Federal Ministry of Health
Since 2014 Member of the German Council of Experts in Health Care at the German Federal Ministry of Health
2013 Mentorship Award (for PhD Supervision), Claussen-Simon-Foundation
2001-2003 Ph.D. Scholarship of the German National Academic Foundation
(Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes)

Rainer Thomasius
Prof. Dr. med.

University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE), Center for Psychosocial Medicine & German Centre for Addiction Research in Childhood and Adolescence
Current position
Professor of Psychiatry, Medical Director German Center for Addiction Research in Childhood and Adolescence, UKE

Contact
Tel.: +49 (0) 40 7410 – 59307
Mail: thomasius@uke.de 

FURTHER INFORMATION

Role within partner site
Principal investigator within research area of Clinical Research

Relevant Work experience
1988 Medicine (MD); Faculty of Medicine, Universität Hamburg;
1994 Venia legendi in Psychiatry and senior lecturer (Habilitation) in Psychiatrics/ Universität Hamburg;
1986-1994 Research fellow at the Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy,
UKE
1994-2006 Senior physician (psychiatry) at the Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy (UKE)
1999-2006 Head of section Personality- and Stress-Disorders at the Center for Psychosocial Medicine, UKE
Since 2001 Professor of Psychiatry (UKE)
Since 2006 Medical Director of German Centre for Addiction Research in Childhood and Adolescence, Inpatient Youth Addiction Treatment Center, Outpatient Treatment Center for Drug- and Alcohol-Abusing Adolescents,
Young Adults and their Families (all UKE)

Main research focus
Integrating risk profiles into interventions (incl. technology-assisted); targeted
family based substance use prevention (universal, selected and indicated) and early intervention; experience in developing complex psychosocial interventions, for underserved population of addicted and comorbid children, adolescents and their families

Publications

  1. Arnaud N, Baldus C, Elgán TH, De Paepe N, Tønnesen H, Csémy L, Thomasius R (2016). Effectiveness of a Web-Based Screening and Fully Automated Brief Motivational Intervention for Adolescent Substance Use: A Randomized Controlled Trial. JMIR 18(5):e103.
    → https://www.jmir.org/2016/5/e103/

     

  2. Wartberg L, Kriston L, Thomasius R (2020). Internet gaming disorder and problematic social media use in a representative sample of German adolescents: Prevalence estimates, comorbid depressive symptoms and related psychosocial aspects. Comp Hum Behav 103, 31-36.
    → https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0747563219303425

     

  3. Ganzer F, Bröning S, Kraft S, Sack PM, Thomasius R (2016). Weighing the evidence: a systematic review on long-term neurocognitive effects of cannabis use in abstinent adolescents and adults. Neuropsychol Rev 26(2), 186-222.
    →https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11065-016-9316-2
  4. Kaess, M, Ritter S, Lustig S, Bauer S, Becker K, Eschenbeck H, Moessner M,… Thomasius R et al. (2019). Promoting Help-Seeking Using E-Technology for ADolescents with Mental Health Problems: Study Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial within the ProHEAD Consortium. Trials 20, Nr. 1:94.
    → https://trialsjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13063-018-3157-7
  5. Arnaud N, Baldus C, Laurenz LJ, Bröning S, Brandt M, Kunze S, Austermann M, …Thomasius R et al. (2020). Does a mindfulness-augmented version of the German Strengthening Families Program reduce substance use in adolescents? Study protocol for a randomized controlled trial. Trials 21(1): 114.
    → https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13063-020-4065-1

Patents N.A.
Additional information
Since 2006 President German Society for Addiction Research and Addiction
Therapy (DG-Sucht); Chairman of Board, Committee on Addiction
of German Society of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychosomatics
and Psychotherapy (DGKJP)
Lead author of S-3 guidelines for treatment of alcohol use disorders in
childhood and adolescents

Silke Wiegand-Grefe
Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Dipl. Psych.

University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE), Center for Psychosocial Medicine,  Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Current position
Head of research group family research and psychotherapy, Head of outpatient clinic for families at the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, W3-Professor for clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy at the Medical School Hamburg

Contact
Tel.: +49 (0) 40 7410 – 53603
Mail: s.wiegand-grefe@uke.de

FURTHER INFORMATION

Role within partner site
Co-Principal investigator in research area Clinical Research and Involvement
of patients, carers and the public

Relevant Work experience
2013 Habilitation in Clinical Psychology and Medical Psychology (UKE)
Since 2011 Professor (W2) and since 2014 (W3) for clinical psychology and psychotherapy at the MSH
Since 2004 Head of research group family research and psychotherapy at the UKE

Main research focus
Severe chronic illness in families; family based prevention; interventions
for families with SMI

Publications

  1. Wiegand-Grefe S, Sell M, Filter B, Plass-Christl A (2019). Family functioning and psychological health of children with mentally ill parents. Int J Environ Res Public Health 10;16(7). pii: E1278.
    → https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6479670/
  2. Wiegand-Grefe S, Alberts J, Petermann F, Plass A (2016). Differential Perspectives on Family Functioning and Interfamilial Relationships: The Effect of a Manualized Intervention Program on Children of Mentally Ill Parents. Kindh Entw 25 (2), 77–88.
    → 
  3. Krumm S, Becker T, Wiegand-Grefe S (2013). Mental health services for families with a parent with mental illness. Curr Opin Psychiatr 26(4), 362-368.
    →https://journals.lww.com/co-psychiatry/Abstract/2013/07000/Mental_health_services_for_parents_affected_by.11.aspx
  4. Weitkamp K, Vollmer S, Romer G, Wiegand-Grefe S (2013). Health-related Quality of Life in Children and Adolescents with mental Disorders. Health Qual Life Outcomes 11, 129.
    → https://hqlo.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1477-7525-11-129
  5. Wiegand-Grefe S, Cronemeyer B, Plass A, Schulte-Markwort M, Petermann F (2013). Comparison of mental abnormalities in children of mentally ill parents from different points of view: Effects of a manualized family intervention. Kindh Entw 22(1), 31-40.
    → https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/1477-7525-11-129

Patents N.A.
Additional information
Since 2018 member of the subcommittee “Psychotherapy Guidelines
Examination” in the GB-A and a deputy member of the subcommittee “Psychotherapy” in the GB-A.
Since 2018 Member of the AWMF S3-guideline: Borderline disorders,
and since 2020: Member “National Clinical Practice Guideline Depression“
Since 2017 spokeswoman for university professors in the German Society
for Psychoanalysis, Psychotherapy, Psychosomatics and Depth Psychology (DGPT) in the extended board
2017 – 2019 Member of the interministerial work group (BMG [Federal Ministry of Health], BMBFSJ [Federal Ministry for Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth], BMAS [Federal Ministry of Work an Social Affairs] and Drug Commissioner) “Help for Children of Mentally Ill Parents”
2011 Innovation price for prevention and innovation at the KKH Allianz (Health Insurances) for the CHIMPS-Project for Families with SMI
Since 2009 spokeswoman of the federal working group (BAG-kIPE) for children of mentally ill parents

 

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