Clemens Kirschbaum

Chair
NameMr Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Clemens Kirschbaum Ph.D.
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Research interests
- stress and its effects on the physiological and psychological functions of the body
- psychoendocrinology, psychoimmunology and molecular genetics
- the influence of acute stress on cognitive control processes.
Since 05.2014 |
Dean of the School of Science, Technische Universität Dresden |
Since 10.2003 |
Full Professor of Psychology, Technische Universität Dresden |
10.1999 – 09.2003 |
Full Professor of Psychology , Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf |
12.1996 – 09.1999 |
Research fellow (Heisenberg scholarship from the German Research Foundation, DFG) at the Center for Psychobiological and Psychosomatic Research at the University of Trier |
01.1992 – 03.1993 |
Postdoctoral education at the University of Rochester, N.Y., Department of Neuroanatomy and Neurobiology; Supervisor: D.L. Felten, M.D. Ph.D. |
07.1996 |
Habilitation, University of Trier (Venia legendi for psychology) |
08.1991 – 11.1996 |
Assistant professor at the University of Trier |
01.1991 |
Doctorate (Dr. rer.nat.) „summa cum laude“; University of Trier; |
10.1986 – 08.1991 |
Teaching assistant at the University of Trier |
08.1985 – 09.1986 |
Teaching assistant at the University of Münster |
07.1985 |
Diploma in Psychology (University of Münster) |
12.2008 |
Elsevier Citation Award for the Top Cited Paper in 2006 and 2007 |
02.1997 |
Innovation Award from the Foundation for the Advancement of the Center for Psychobiological and Psychosomatic Research ("Verein zur Förderung des Forschungszentrums für Psychobiologie und Psychosomatik") |
10.1996 |
Heisenberg scholarship from the DFG |
03.1996 |
Special Citation Award, Behavioral Medicine Research Society, Washington. First author: Dr. Mark Roy |
06.1995 |
Neal Miller New Investigator Award, Academy of Behavioral Medicine Research |
06.1992 |
Young Investigator Award, Society for the Immunocompromized Host, Boulder/Colorado, U.S.A. |
11.1991 |
Dissertation award from the University of Trier |
06.1990 |
Poster award of the German Society for Medical Psychology, Ulm. |
12.1988 |
European Science Foundation scholarship for attending the ESF winterschool "Brain, behaviour and the immune system" |
12.1987 |
European Science Foundation scholarship for attending the ESF winterschool "Stress, Disease and the Brain" |
07.1986 – 09.1986 |
Scholarship from the German Academic Exchange Program (DAAD) for visits to different psychoneuroimmunological research laboratories in the U.S.A. |
01.2017 - 12.2017 | DFG: The predictive importance of long-term hair cortisol levels for the development of a posttraumatic stress disorder resulting from rape. |
07.2016 - 06.2020 | DFG/SFB 940: Chronic stress and executive functioning - a longitudinal perspective |
04.2014 - 02.2017 |
DFG: Long-term effects of prenatal synthetic glucocorticoid exposure on psychosocial stress reactivity and volitional control in children and adolescents. KI 537 |
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DFG: Performance, stress hormone level and mental functioning within entrepreneurs at risk of insolvency: Evaluation of a coaching program (INsoCoach). KI 537/35-1 |
09.2013 - 12.2016 |
DFG / Zukunftsprojekt: Psychological and Biological Risk Factors of Burnout |
07.2010 - 07.2016 |
DFG: Victims of War: Contribution of the Cholinergic System to the Development of PTSD in Children and Adolescents in Palestine and Israel. KI 537/29-1 |
07.2012 - 06.2016 |
DFG/ SFB 940: The stressed prefrontal cortex: Effects of acute stress on volition and cognitve control. |
2012 |
BMBF: Research Collaboration AMIS: Analyzing pathways from childhood maltreatment to internalizing symptoms and disorders in children and adolsecents. (TU Dresden, 01KR1201B) |
09.2012 - 08.2013 |
DFG: Deficits in Emotion Regulation Skills as a Maintaining Factor in Major Depressive Disorder. KI 537/33-2 |
08.2011 |
BVA: MiSpex-Network: Entwicklung, Evaluation und Transfer einer funktionsbezogenen Diagnostik,Prävention und Therapie bei Rückenschmerz für den Spitzensport und die Gesamtgesellschaft. |
03.2011 |
DFG: Untersuchung der Assoziation zwischen chronischem Stress und Körperfettverteilung sowie zwischen chronischem Stress und Ernährung innerhalb der EPIC-Potsdam Kohorte. VI 582/1-1 |
05.2009 – 04.2012 |
DFG: Psychological and physiological effects of chronic partial sleep deprivations in young parents, |
09.2008 – 08.2010 |
DFG: Effects of prenatal glucocorticoid medication on the infantile psychological development, health, cognition, concentration and stress response. KI 537/25-1 |
12.2008 – 11.2010 |
DFG: Predictors, consequences and convertibility of psychoneuroendocrine stress response in human with social phobia, KI 537/26-1 |
05.2007 – 04.2009 |
DFG: Analysis of endogenous cortisol concentration in human scalp hair: A retrospective calendar of cumulative cortisol exposure“ 1162/3-1 |
07.2006 – 06.2008 |
DFG: Chronic Stress through "repeated hits" and lack of adaptation? A biopsychological Investigation of the Allostatic Load-concept in amateur athletes. Ki 537/21 |
05.2005 – 01.2009 |
DFG: 5-HTTLPR Polymorphismus, emotional memory, Startle- response and stress Ki 537/20-1, 20-3 |
11.2003 – 10.2004 |
DFG: Neuronal correlates of psychosocial stress in humans, Ki 537/18 |
10.2002 – 09.2004 |
Psychosocial stress in Morbus Addison patients: Investigations of the teleological importance of the HPA stress response in humans |
12.2000 – 06.2002 |
DFG: NF-κB DNA binding activity in response to acute psychosocial stress |
01.2000 – 12.2001 |
DFG: Stress reactivity and glucorticoid sensitivity in healthy individuals and patients with atopic disease |
06.1997 – 05.2000 |
DFG: Rapid habituation of endocrine stress responses: a protective factor for future health problems? |
01.1997 – 12.1999 |
DFG: Investigations of protective effects of sex steroids in elderly individuals under psychological stress |
05.1995 – 04.1997 |
German Research Foundation (DFG): Comparsion of endocrine responsiveness to psychological and physical stress and h-CRH in women using oral contraceptives |
09.1993 – 08.1995 |
German Ministery of Research and Technology: Non-invasive stress monitoring by hormone assessment in saliva during space flights |
07.1990 – 06.1991 |
Research Council for Smoking and Health (Forschungsrat für Rauchen und Gesundheit): Pituitary and adrenal responses to psychological and physical stress and to h-CRH in smokers and nonsmokers |
04.1989 – 03.1991 |
DFG: Classical conditioning of natural killer cell activity in humans |
- President of the International Society of Psychoneuroendocrinology (ISPNE)
- Member of the German National Academy of Sciences - Leopoldina
- German Research Council (DFG) - Review Board
- German-Isreali Foundation for Scientific Research and Development
- Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich (ETH), Zürich
- National Health Service (NHS), Großbritannien