Dr. rer. nat Susann Steudte-Schmiedgen
Research focus
- Psychoendocrinology
- Trauma and posttraumatic stress disorder
- Predictors and correlates of psychotherapy outcome
- Perinatal stress in parents and their offspring
- Developmental programming of health and disease
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Curriculum Vitae
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Steudte-Schmiedgen, Susann, Dr. rer. nat, Dipl.-Psych. |
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Official position |
Head of the Psychobiology of Stress Unit at the Department of Psychotherapy and Psychosomatic Medicine |
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Institution |
University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany |
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Business address |
Fetscherstraße 74, 01307 Dresden |
Academic education and degrees
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2009 |
Diploma in Psychology, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany |
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2013 |
Doctor Rerum Naturalium (equivalent to PhD) in Psychology “summa cum laude”, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany |
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2020 |
Board-certified psychotherapist (behavioural therapy), Technische Universität Dresden, Germany |
Professional career
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2007 |
Research internship at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Science, Leipzig, Germany |
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2007-2009 |
Undergraduate research assistant at the Department of Biopsychology, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany |
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2009-2013 |
Doctoral researcher at Department of Biopsychology, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany |
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2010 |
Visiting research assistant at the Department of Psychological Sciences, Kent State University, USA |
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2013-2017 |
Research associate at the Department of Biopsychology, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany |
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2014-2015 |
Visiting postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Psychiatry, Oxford University, United Kingdom |
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2015-2017 |
Psychologist at the trauma unit at the Department of Psychotherapy and Psychosomatic Medicine, University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany |
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Since 2018 |
Head of the Psychobiology of Stress Unit and psychotherapist at the Mother-Baby Unit at the Department of Psychotherapy and Psychosomatic Medicine, University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany |
Honors, awards and positions
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2013 |
Werner Straub Dissertation Award for an outstanding doctoral thesis, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany |
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2014 |
Commerzbank Award for an outstanding doctoral thesis |
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2014 |
Postdoctoral research fellowship from the German Research Foundation for a research visit at the Department of Psychiatry, Oxford University, United Kingdom |
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2018 |
Research award from the Falk von Reichenbach Foundation, German Society for Psychotraumatology (DeGPT) |
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2020 |
Habilitation scholarship for women, University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus, Technische Universität Dresden |
10 most important peer-reviewed papers
(10 out of 35: SCOPUS h-index: 19)
Schindler L, Stalder T, Kirschbaum C, Plessow F, Schönfeld S … Steudte-Schmiedgen S. Cognitive functioning in posttraumatic stress disorder before and after cognitive-behavioral therapy. Journal of Anxiety Disorders. 2020;102265.
Petrowski K, Wichmann S, Pyrc J, Kirschbaum C, Steudte-Schmiedgen S. Hair Cortisol predicts Avoidance Behavior and Depressiveness after first-time and single Event Trauma Exposure in Motor Vehicle Crash Victims. Stress. 2020;1-28.
Trautmann S, Muehlhan M, Kirschbaum C, Wittchen HU, Höfler M … Steudte-Schmiedgen S. Biological stress indicators as risk markers for increased alcohol use following traumatic experiences. Addiction Biology. 2018;23:281-290.
Steudte-Schmiedgen S, Wichmann S, Stalder T, Hilbert K, Muehlhan M et al. Hair cortisol concentrations and cortisol stress reactivity in generalized anxiety disorder, major depression and their comorbidity. Journal of Psychiatric Research. 2017;84:184-190.
Steudte-Schmiedgen S, Kirschbaum C, Alexander N, Stalder T. An integrative model linking traumatization, cortisol dysregulation and posttraumatic stress disorder: insight from recent hair cortisol findings. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews. 2016;69:124-135.
Steudte-Schmiedgen S, Stalder T, Schönfeld S, Wittchen HU, Trautmann S et al. Hair cortisol concentrations and cortisol stress reactivity predict PTSD symptom increase after trauma exposure during military deployment. Psychoneuroendocrinology. 2015;59:123-133.
Steudte-Schmiedgen S, Stalder T, Kirschbaum C, Weber F, Hoyer J, Plessow F. Trauma exposure is associated with increased context-dependent adjustments of cognitive control in patients with posttraumatic stress disorder and healthy controls. Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience. 2014;14:1-10.
Steudte S, Kirschbaum C, Gao W, Alexander N, Schönfeld S et al. Hair cortisol as a biomarker of traumatization in healthy individuals and posttraumatic stress disorder patients. Biological Psychiatry. 2013;74:639-646.
Steudte S, Kolassa IT, Stalder T, Pfeiffer A, Kirschbaum C, Elbert T. Increased cortisol concentrations in hair of severely traumatized Ugandan individuals with PTSD. Psychoneuroendocrinology. 2011;36:1193–1200.
Steudte S, Stalder T, Dettenborn L, Klumbies E, Foley P et al. Decreased hair cortisol concentrations in generalised anxiety disorder. Psychiatry Research. 2011;186:310–314.