Prof. Dr. med. Ulrich Zimmermann

Research focus

Addiction Medicine
Investigator-initiated clinical trials
Learning mechanisms
Human behavioural experimentation in the lab

Curriculum Vitae

	Zimmermann, Ulrich, MD, Professor of Psychiatry
Official position	i) Associated scientist, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy ii) Physician-in-Chief, Department of Addiction Medicine and Psychotherapy
Institution	i) University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany ii) kbo Isar-Amper-Klinikum Haar
Business address	Ringstr. 9, 85540 Haar

Academic education and degrees

1983-1991	MD in Medicine, School of Medicine, FU Berlin
1995	MD in Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
2005	Postdoctoral lecture qualification (venia legendi) in Psychiatry, University of Heidelberg
2014	Appointment as a Professor of Psychiatry, Technische Universität Dresden

Professional career

1991-1993	Residency in Gynaecology, University Hospital Erlangen
1993-1994	Residency in Psychiatry, University Hospital Erlangen
1994-1995	Residency in Psychiatry, psychiatrisches Landeskrankenhaus Weissenau, Ravensburg
1995-2003	Residency in Psychiatry. Max-Planck-Institute of Psychiatry, Munich
2003	Visiting Research Scholar, University of Indiana School of Medicine, Indianapolis, USA
2004-2007	Supervising Psychiatrist, Dept. of Addictive Behaviors and Addiction Medicine, Central Institute of Mental Health, Mannheim
2007-2018	Deputy Director, Dept. of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Hospital Dresden
Since 2018	Physician-in-Chief, Department of Addiction Medicine and Psychotherapy, kbo Isar-Amper-Klinikum Haar

Honors, awards and positions

1995	Prize for MD-thesis awarded by Werner G. Gehring-Stiftung
1998	Young Investigator Award awarded by the International Society for Psychoneuroendocrinology on the occasion of the 29th Annual Meeting
2000	Poster prize awarded at the des 22. CINP Congress, Brussels
2003	Ernst- and Berta-Scharrer-Preis awarded by the German Society for Endocrinology
2016	Wolfram-Keup-Preis awarded by the Bundesverbandes für stationäre Suchtkrankenhilfe

Current journal editorial positions

Since 2006	Receiving Editor, “Addiction Biology”
Since 2012	Advisory Board, “Pharmacophychiatry”
Since 2017	associate editor, “Sucht”

10 most important peer-reviewed papers

(10 out of 104, SCOPUS h-index: 33)

Sommer C, Birkenstock J, Garbusow M, Obst E, Schad DJ ... Zimmermann US. Dysfunctional approach behavior triggered by alcohol-unrelated Pavlovian cues predicts long-term relapse in alcohol dependence. Addict Biol. 2020;25(1):e12703.

Bernhardt N, Obst E, Nebe S, Pooseh S, Wurst FM ... Zimmermann US. Acute alcohol effects on impulsive choice in adolescents. J Psychopharmacol. 2019;33(3):316-325.

Sommer C, Garbusow M, Jünger E, Pooseh S, Bernhardt N ... Zimmermann US. Strong seduction: impulsivity and the impact of contextual cues on instrumental behavior in alcohol dependence. Transl Psychiatry. 2017;7(8):e1183.

Jünger E, Javadi AH, Wiers CE, Sommer C, Garbusow M ... Zimmermann US. Acute alcohol effects on explicit and implicit motivation to drink alcohol in socially drinking adolescents. J Psychopharmacol. 2017;31(7):893-905.

Zimmermann US, O'Connor S, Ramchandani VA. Modeling alcohol self-administration in the human laboratory. Curr Top Behav Neurosci. 2013;13:315-53.

Zimmermann US, Mick I, Laucht M, Vitvitskiy V, Plawecki MH et al. Offspring of parents with an alcohol use disorder prefer higher levels of brain alcohol exposure in experiments involving computer-assisted self-infusion of ethanol (CASE). Psychopharmacology (Berl). 2009;202(4):689-97.

Zimmermann US, Mick I, Vitvitskyi V, Plawecki MH, Mann KF, O'Connor S. Development and pilot validation of computer-assisted self-infusion of ethanol (CASE): a new method to study alcohol self-administration in humans. Alcohol Clin Exp Res. 2008;32(7):1321-8.

Zimmermann US, Blomeyer D, Laucht M, Mann KF. How gene-stress-behavior interactions can promote adolescent alcohol use: the roles of predrinking allostatic load and childhood behavior disorders. Pharmacol Biochem Behav. 2007;86(2):246-62.

Zimmermann US, Spring K, Kunz-Ebrecht SR, Lachner G, Uhr M et al. Effect of ethanol on hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal system response to psychosocial stress in sons of alcohol-dependent fathers. Neuropsychopharmacology. 2004;29:1156-1165.

Zimmermann US, Hundt W, Spring K, Grabner A, Holsboer F. Hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal system adaptation to detoxification in alcohol-dependent patients is affected by family history of alcoholism. Biol Psychiatry. 2003;53:75-84.