Dr. rer. nat. Dipl.-Psych. Judith Schäfer

Dr. rer. nat. Judith Schäfer Dipl.-Psych.
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Chair of Behavioral Epidemiology
Chair of Behavioral Epidemiology
Visiting address:
Falkenbrunnen, room 264 Chemnitzer Str. 46
01187 Dresden
Postal address:
TUD Dresden University of Technology
Faculty of Psychology
Chair of Behavioral Epidemiology
01062 Dresden
Office hours:
by appointment
Core research areas:
- Experimental clinical psychology
- Cognitive processes and their contribution to the development and maintenance of mental disorders as a result of traumatic experiences
Short biography:
08/2017 | Doctorate Dr. rer. nat. (summa cum laude) on "Attentional Bias in Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: Investigating the Phenomenon by Considering its Temporal Dynamics from Moment to Moment" |
since 10/2011until probably 04/2019 | Postgraduate studies in Psychological Psychotherapy at the Institute Outpatient Clinic and Day Clinic for Psychotherapy (IAP) of TU Dresden GmbH |
since 07/2011 | Research Associate at the Institute of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, TU Dresden |
10/2004 - 06/2011 | Studied psychology at the University of Erfurt, Friedrich Schiller University Jena and the University of Limerick (Ireland) |
Teaching:
- Supervision of bachelor, master and diploma theses
- Lecturer in the optional Bachelor's colloquium
- Lecturer "Conversation"
- Lecturer in the lecture series on research issues in clinical psychology and psychotherapy
Research funding through scholarships and third-party funds:
09/2016 | Start-up funding through centralized research funds of the Dresden Department of Psychology for the study "Preventing the Development of Posttraumatic Intrusions: Training Attentional Regulation of Trauma-Related Information Following Analogue Trauma Exposure" (together with Dr. Moritz Walser) |
08/2015 - 02/2016 and 08/2018 - 02/2019 | Funding of a German-Israeli research collaboration between the Institute of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy and the International Research Collaborative On Anxiety (University of Haifa, Israel, Prof. Amit Bernstein) through the DAAD-great!ipid4all program (Graduate Academy TU Dresden) |
05/2014 - 12/2016 | Doctoral scholarship holder in the scholarship program for the promotion of young female scientists at TU Dresden |
09/2014 |
financial. Support of the Society of Friends and Sponsors of TU Dresden e. V. for participation in the EABCT Congress 2014 in The Hague |
03/2014 | Scholarship for the promotion of early-career researchers to attend the 16th annual conference of the DeGPT |
05/2012 | Department of Psychology for conducting the study "Attentional bias induction and etiology of PTSD-symptoms" |
Prizes and awards:
01/2018 | Karl and Charlotte von Bühler Prize for excellent teaching, TU Dresden |
11/2017 | Werner Straub Prize for outstanding achievements in scientific qualification (doctorate), TU Dresden. |