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 

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. 1. Curriculum Vitae
   2. Academic education and degrees
   3. Professional career 
   4. Honors, awards and positions
   5. 10 most important peer-reviewed papers

Curriculum Vitae

	Steudte-Schmiedgen, Susann, Dr. rer. nat, Dipl.-Psych.
Official position	Head of the Psychobiology of Stress Unit at the Department of Psychotherapy and Psychosomatic Medicine
Institution	University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany
Business address	Fetscherstraße 74, 01307 Dresden

Academic education and degrees

2009	Diploma in Psychology, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany
2013	Doctor Rerum Naturalium (equivalent to PhD) in Psychology “summa cum laude”, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany
2020	Board-certified psychotherapist (behavioural therapy), Technische Universität Dresden, Germany

Professional career 

2007	Research internship at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Science, Leipzig, Germany
2007-2009	Undergraduate research assistant at the Department of Biopsychology, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany
2009-2013	Doctoral researcher at Department of Biopsychology, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany
2010	Visiting research assistant at the Department of Psychological Sciences, Kent State University, USA
2013-2017	Research associate at the Department of Biopsychology, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany
2014-2015	Visiting postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Psychiatry, Oxford University, United Kingdom
2015-2017	Psychologist at the trauma unit at the Department of Psychotherapy and Psychosomatic Medicine, University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany
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

2013	Werner Straub Dissertation Award for an outstanding doctoral thesis, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany
2014	Commerzbank Award for an outstanding doctoral thesis
2014	Postdoctoral research fellowship from the German Research Foundation for a research visit at the Department of Psychiatry, Oxford University, United Kingdom
2018	Research award from the Falk von Reichenbach Foundation, German Society for Psychotraumatology (DeGPT)
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.