Prof. Dr. Heide Glaesmer

Research focus

Psychotraumatology, e.g. refugees mental health, conflict related sexual violence and children born of war
Migration research
Suicidality research
Epidemiology of mental disorders

Curriculum Vitae

	Glaesmer, Heide, PhD, Professor
Official position	Deputy Chair, Department of Medical Psychology and Medical Sociology
Institution	University Medical Center Leipzig, Medical Faculty
Business address	Philipp-Rosenthal-Strasse 55, 04103 Leipzig

Academic education and degrees

2018	Appointment as associate professor
2012	Postdoctoral qualification (habilitation/venia legend Medical Psychology and Medical Sociology), Faculty of Medicine, University of Leipzig
2010	Licence („Approbation“) as psychological psychotherapist (Cognitive behavioral psychotherapy)
2004	PhD, Department of Public Health, Technical University Berlin (Germany)
1999-2002	Fellowship at a PhD program from the Technical University, Free University, Humboldt University, Berlin (Germany) funded by the German Research Foundation
1992-1999	Diploma Psychology, Department of Biosciences, Pharmacy and Psychology, University of Leipzig

Professional career

Since 2014	Deputy Head of Department for Medical Psychology and Medical Sociology, University of Leipzig and Head of the working group “Psychotraumatology and Migration research” and “Suicidality research”
2007-2014	Postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Medical Psychology and Sociology, University of Leipzig
2006	Research Assistant, University of Leipzig, Department of Psychiatry
2005-2006	Parental leave
2002-2005	Principal Investigator, DETECT-project* (Diabetes Cardiovascular Risk-Evaluation: Targets and Essential Data for Commitment of Treatment), Institute for clinical psychology, TU Dresden (www.detect-studie.de)
2000-2001	Research Assistant, University of Leipzig, Department of Psychiatry

Honors, awards and positions

2019	Hans-Heimann Tandem Award (PhD candidate and supervisor) of the DGPPN together with Dr. Marie Kaiser
2018	Congress President of the joint annual conference of the German Society for Medical Psychology (DGMP) and the German Society for Medical Sociology (DGMS): "From global challenges in health care to community-based and individual psychosocial intervention strategies", Leipzig
Since 2016	Scientific advisory board of the helpline for sexual abuse https://beauftragter-missbrauch.de/hilfe/hilfetelefon/
2014	Günter-Jantschek-Award of the German College of Psychosomatic Medicine (DKPM)
2014	Award of the German-speaking Sociey for Psychotraumatology and the Falk-von-Reichenbach-Foundation
2012-2016	Elected member of the faculty council of the Medical Faculty, University of Leipzig
2012	Gert-Sommer-Award for Peace Psychology for the habilitation thesis „Traumatic experiences and posttraumatic stress disorder in the German elderly population – associations with mental and physical health and health care utilization“
2010	Poster Award of the German Association of Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics (DGPPN)
2010	Young Investigators Award of Volkswagen Foundation
Since 2008	member of the research commission of the Medical Faculty, University of Leipzig

Current journal editorial positions

Since 2020	Review Editor of International Journal of Public Health
Since 2016	Editor of Trauma und Gewalt – Forschung und Praxisfelder, (Klett-Cotta),
Since 2013	Associate Editor, Trauma Section, BMC Psychiatry
Since 2011	Editorial board, Psychotherapie Psychosomatik Medizinische Psychologie (Thieme)

10 most important peer-reviewed papers

(10 out of 246, Scopus h-index: 43)

Lucht L, Höller I, Forkmann T, Teismann T, Schönfelder A … Glaesmer H. Validation of the motivational phase of the Integrated Motivational–Volitional Model of Suicidal Behavior in a German high-risk sample. J Affect Disord. 2020;274: 9871-879.

Mitreuter S, Kaiser M, Roupetz S, Stelzl-Marx B, Kuwert P, Glaesmer H. Questions of Identity in Children Born of War – Embarking on a Search for the unknown soldier fathers. Journal of Child and Family Studies 2019;28(11): 3220-3229.

Anderson K, Delic A, Komproe I, Avdibegovic E, van Ee E, Glaesmer H. Coping as a predictor of Posttraumatic Growth in Survivors of Conflict-Related Sexual Violence from Bosnia and Herzegovina. Confl Health. 2019;13: 23.

Schönfelder A, Hallensleben N, Spangenberg L, Forkmann T, Rath D … Glaesmer H. Childhood abuse and the components of the Interpersonal Theory of Suicide in a Clinical Sample. J Affect Disord 2019;245: 788-797.

Nesterko Y, Meiwes-Turrion C, Friedrich M, Glaesmer H. Trajectories of health-related quality of life in immigrants and non-immigrants in Germany: a population-based longitudinal study. Int J Public Health 2019; 64(1): 49-58.

Forkmann T, Spangenberg L, Rath D, Hallensleben N, Hegerl U, Kersting A, Glaesmer H. Assessing suicidality in real time: A psychometric evaluation of self-report items for the assessment of suicidal ideation and its proximal risk factors using ecological momentary assessments. J Abnorm Psychol. 2018;127(8): 758-769.

Hallensleben N, Spangenberg L, Forkmann T, Rath D, Hegerl U … Glaesmer H. Investigating the dynamics of suicidal ideation: Preliminary findings from a study using ecological momentary assessments in psychiatric inpatients. Crisis. 2018;39: 65-69.

Romppel M, Hinz A, Finck C, Young J, Brähler E, Glaesmer H. Cross-cultural measurement invariance of the General Health Questionnaire (GHQ-12) in a German and a Colombian population sample. Int J Methods Psychiatr Res 2017;26(4): e1532.

Glaesmer H, Hallensleben N, Forkmann T, Spangenberg L, Kapusta N, Teismann T. Testing the main predictions of the Interpersonal Theory of Suicide in a representative sample of the German general population. J Affect Disord 2017;211: 150-152.

Glaesmer H, Romppel M, Braehler E, Hinz A, Maercker A. Adjustment Disorder as proposed for ICD-11: Dimensionality and symptom differentiation. Psychiatry Res. 2015;229: 940-948.